Skin Care Tips

If you are trying to decide what skincare products you are interested in using, you may find product reviews frustrating and confusing. Did you know that rating skincare products is something that you can do yourself and something that you should do as part of establishing a customized skincare regimen?

It's true. Remember that a lot of the money that goes into paying for surveys and reviews actually comes from the product manufacturers themselves. Of course they are going to want to gloss over an ineffective product or make their particular products sound better than they actually are. After all, more money goes into paying for the advertising than it does for the research that created those products.

If you want to rate skincare products yourself, the first thing you should be doing is looking at the label rather than the advertising. The ingredients used in the product can tell you a lot about the product itself, more than a study or survey can. You want to look for ingredients which have been proven, as these have, to be effective in a number of different products. If a product has consistently proven to be effective across the board, you should think about rating skincare products which contain them higher than ones that do not.

There are a few very effective skin care ingredients such as Cynergy TK, which builds collagen, and Phytessence Wakame, which helps restore the moisture balance in your skin and keeps it hydrated and beautiful. Other effective ingredients include antioxidants from fruit extracts and honey for moisturizing and disinfection.

Remember when you are rating skin care products that it is not enough to simply contain trace amounts of these ingredients. You will want to make sure that the levels of these ingredients are higher than others. If you look at a label, a product must list active ingredients in order of content. The more of an ingredient in a product, the higher it will be on the list of ingredients.

You should make sure that the products you are thinking about rating do not contain harmful ingredients such as parabens, phthalates and synthetic fragrances. Each of these can cause a wide range of skin and health issues. At the least they may irritate your skin and cause redness and itching. At the worst they are thought to cause cancer.

If you use this method of rating skincare products you may be surprised at what you find and how much your list differs from the "best" products listed in magazines.