So, what are the benefits of hyaluronic acid for the skin and why is it considered one of the top anti-aging ingredients? Any time I’m researching the best skin best products or anti-aging ingredients, I’m coming across this one time and time again so I decided to dig in a little deeper to find out what this popular ingredient has to offer. Despite the fact that it has the scary word acid in its name, it’s not an ingredient that you need to fear, in fact, quite the opposite. It has a lot of benefits when used in skincare and has become an extremely popular ingredient for those very reasons.…

So, what does Niacinamide do for the skin and why has it become such a popular addition to many skin care products? In my quest to find the best products for the skin, especially those for anti-aging purposes, I’m repeatedly seeing the same top anti-aging skin care ingredients coming up again and again and one of those ingredients is Niacinamide which to me sounds more like the kind of thing you’d expect to find in a chemical weapon. I’m not normally one for just following the masses and as such, I always like to know why I should be using certain things before jumping on the bandwagon. With that in…

If you’re looking to improve your skin care routine then finding the best anti-aging skin care ingredients is a good place to start. There are so many products out there on the market but not all are made as equally as the next. Just knowing the right kinds of ingredients to look for will give you a better chance of finding products that are more likely to be effective. Up until the last few years, the most important thing about my skincare products were their brand names. As far as I was concerned, if they were a big name in the industry then they had to be good, right? Hmmm not…

If you’re in any way obsessed with anti-aging skin care products then you’ve probably asked the question what does retinol do to skin and why are people always talking about it. Retinol is actually quite the superhero of ingredients when it comes to anti-aging and it has a ton of research behind it to back it up. If you’re anything like me, the hype surrounding it had me wanting to run out and buy it as fast as I could but there were also a lot of scary side effects that had me slightly concerned about whether this product was worth all that trouble. Well in my opinion it was…

Up until very recently, I was of the belief that alcohol and skin care products were a bad mix and that all alcohol should be avoided at all costs when it comes to skin care. I had thought that most if not all of my products were alcohol-free but upon inspecting my entire skincare collection, I discovered that a large portion of my collection contained some form of alcohol and so I decided I needed to look into it further before disposing of every product I owned. I found that this was not as clear-cut as I had first thought and there were a few things that needed to be…

Okay, so without trying to worry you too much, you may want to take a look at the following list of ingredients in skin care products to avoid before you next go shopping for your favourite creams and lotions. It’s no surprise to learn that many skin care products contain ingredients that are more than questionable to say the least so you may want to consider checking the label first to see exactly what they contain. There are actually numerous ingredients that are considered problematic, so much so that there’s way too many to mention but here are just a few of the most well known that you may want…