Anti-aging Past, Present, And Future
by Jen Hopkins From the very earliest beginning of the human race, both women and men have tried to prevent and reduce the undesirable consequences o...
From the very earliest beginning of the human race, both women and men have tried to prevent and reduce the undesirable consequences of aging on the body. Many substances, ranging from dung to acidic solutions, have been used in an attempt to gain a more youthful appearance for the user.
Most of these substances did nothing towards there desired goal. In fact many early attempts resulted in serious health problems from allergies and disfigurement all the way to painful death. As our understanding of human physiology and chemistry has developed the situation has somewhat improved.
Despite scientific progress, no discovered substance can totally reverse the signs of aging on skin, so wrinkles will still appear. Modern treatments can only mask the wrinkles for a short period of time to make the product user appear younger.
Current anti-wrinkle creams can be categorized as one of two main types. The first type sloughs off dead skin to reveal healthy, living skin underneath. The other type of anti-wrinkle treatment makes the skin expand slightly, to disguise the wrinkles.
Many modern concoctions mix both types of creams into one product. Prices range wildly from no more expensive then standard hand cream to well over $1000 per once. While Much study has been done at this point no evidence exists that these expensive products have any additional benefit.
The main problem with all of these Ant-wrinkle creams is that the wrinkles come back when you stop using the product, sometimes in a very short period . Even an inexpensive creams cost will add up considerably over a length of time.
The future of Ant-Wrinkle creams may improve shortly, as some of the new cream formulations currently under development start to hit the mass market. There are reports of some remarkably effective new creams. Much money and resources are spent by drug and pharmaceutical companies worldwide to this aim.
As long as people continue to age we all wish for a personal fountain of youth. Soon with luck, and allot of good science there may exist
Anti wrinkle/ Anti aging creams and therapy’s that will help hold back the ravages of time.
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