The term ‘wrinkle cream’ evokes images of 1940s and 1950s housewives with their faces covered in a thick white mask at bedtime. Often referred to as ‘cold cream’ or even ‘vanishing cream’ these potions were meant to moisturize and give women the feeling that they were holding the inevitable wrinkles at bay, for at least awhile. Most of the anti aging wrinkle creams available back then were nothing more than sweet smelling grease.
Before we get into what wrinkle creams are like today, let’s take a look at what we are fighting. [click to continue…]
Who knew that your hair could suffer the effects of aging? How is that possible! It will help to understand what hair actually is.
First of all, the hair you see on your head is dead. Your hair is actually long strands of keratinized cells, which are, for lack of a better term, dead. But there is no reason that these dead keratinized cells can’t be beautiful.
One of the most noticeable signs of aging is graying, dull, brittle, and lifeless hair. So, let’s take a look at what gray hair actually is. Hair and skin color are both a function of how much melanin you have in your body. As you age, the production of melanin slows down. For hair, that means that it will slowly lose its color, resulting in, you guessed it, gray hair.
Here are some treatments that you may want to consider if you want to help your hair appear more youthful: [click to continue…]
