Is prescription wrinkle cream the answer to lined, aging skin? Here are a few important facts to consider before you decide, and some alternatives to think about.
The first issue is safety and side effects. What is more important than the safety of something you put on your skin?
The only prescription creams available contain tretinoin, sold in an acne product since 1971, then later under several brand names as a prescription wrinkle cream.
So, about safety. What are the side effects of tretinoin?
— Well, there’s dry skin, irritation, flaking, and increased sensitivity to sunburn.
— Then there’s burning, itching, peeling, redness, and stinging.
— If you have eczema, you shouldn’t use it at all — it can cause severe irritation.
— Also, it can increase the dangers of other prescription drugs, such as common antibiotics that can make your skin over-sensitive to normal sunshine, like Cipro, tetracycline and Noroxin.
— And don’t take tretinoin with major tranquilizers such as Thorazine and Mellaril.
— Or with sulfa drugs such as Bactrim and Septra.
— Or with thiazide drugs (so-called “water pills”).
Have you heard enough? Ready to try something more natural?
All right!
For a start, tretinoin is derived from Vitamin A, which is essential to skin health — but in its natural form, of course. So Vitamin A is a great ingredient for healthy skin, as are natural Vitamin E and Coenzyme Q10. Some searching will uncover these ingredients — with NONE of the side effects of tretinoin — in combination with these other powerful anti-wrinkle ingredients proven in clinical testing:
— Cynergy TK is a breakthrough against wrinkles. It contains Functional Keratin, which is similar to the basic protein found in our skin, in a unique bio-available form which stimulates the growth of new skin cells. It’s also a wonderful moisturizer that penetrates deeply into the skin.
— Nano-Lipobelle H EQ10 is another cutting edge ingredient, which has proven in clinical testing that it can penetrate down through seven layers of skin to produce a dramatic anti-wrinkle effect. It contains CoQ10 in microscopic particles, so it is absorbed much better by the skin.
— Phytessence Wakame is an extract from Japanese sea kelp which keeps skin flexible, smooth and younger looking. It blocks the action of an enzyme called hyaluronidase, which breaks down hyaluronic acid in the skin. But hyaluronic acid is essential to youthful skin! So when Phytessence Wakame blocks the destructive enzyme, your skin rebuilds its hyaluronic acid to levels it had when you were much younger. careprost