Moisturizing Cream

With lots of Moisturizing Creams to choice from
it`s hard to know what one`s to use lots of them
promise to work wonders on your skin but fail
to live up to their promise. Below you will find
a list of in ingredients that has been proven to
make your skin react the way it should to a
Moisturizing cream.

Hyaluronic Acid
Hyaluronic Acid is found naturally in the connective tissues of your body, where it acts as a lubricant. This lubricating quality is important in several respects. It's absolutely necessary for proper functioning of the joints, valves and eyes, and for maintaining the shape of the skin.

Not surprisingly, large amounts of Hyaluronic Acid are found in healthy skin. This function with the skin is probably related to the fact that skin has three levels that need to be properly connected to one another. Hyaluronic Acid has been found to help maintain healthy collagen and to keep the skin moisturized. Reduced levels of Hyaluronic Acid are associated with the appearance of wrinkles.

Hydrolyzed Wheat Gluten and Ceratonia siliqua
Wheat Gluten is a complex of proteins derived from the central part of a grain of wheat. Hydrolyzing it cuts up the Wheat Gluten into smaller sections that can be used more easily. Hydrolyzed Wheat Gluten is a noted moisturizer on its own. It is most important, though, in combination with carob (Ceratonia siliqua), also known as locust bean. Carob has long been used in the Mediterranean world for its many medicinal properties, including strong antitoxin effects. When combined, Hydrolyzed Wheat Gluten and carob have been found to be an unusually effective natural skin tightener because of their ability first to form a permeable film on the skin, and then to evaporate, producing a lasting tightening effect.

Macrocystis pyrifera
This is the scientific name of kelp (seaweed). Kelp has long been used in natural skin products. It contains a striking combination of healthy vitamins, minerals and amino acids, including iodine, which has important cleansing properties for the skin. Kelp help promote smooth silky skin..

Edelweis Extract
Edelweiss isn't just something found in a song from The Sound of Music. Edelweiss Extract is a strong antioxidant that cleans up the free radicals produced by metabolism and by pollutants as well. These free radicals voraciously combine with almost anything, including the components of your skin, increasing the appearance of aging. In addition to being an antioxidant, Edelweiss Extract. What we thought was only a cute little flower is actually a powerful fighter against the appearance of aging.

Shea Butter
Shea Butter is derived from the nut of the karite tree of West Africa, where it is commonly used in soap. Shea Butter is a natural moisturizer and skin tightener. It contains cinnamic acid, which helps protect against photo-aging. It also includes natural latex, which has hypoallergenic qualities. The fatty acids in Shea Butter, along with the other ingredients, promote healthy skin, and work to prevent the skin from drying, cracking, burning and wrinkling. Shea Butter traditionally has been used for the skin.

Squalene
Squalene a natural antioxidant found in your skin. By fighting the free radicals that damage both skin and the rest of your body, it helps your skin remain healthy. Squalene occurs in both fish and various vegetables. Squalene is being studied for numerous benefits

Evening Primrose Oil
Evening Primrose Oil is extracted from the seeds of the evening primrose plant (Oenothera biennis), whose name refers to the fact that its flowers open in the evening. Evening primrose grows in parts of North America, Europe and Asia. Native Americans and early European colonists used evening primrose root as a folk medicine. We now know that Evening Primrose Oil contains gamma-linolenic acid (GLA). Your body converts GLA into prostaglandins.

GLA helps promote the overall health and tone of your skin. The fatty acids in Evening Primrose Oil replace acids lost by the body that the body can't regenerate properly on its own. In this way, Evening Primrose Oil helps maintain the shape and texture of the skin, working to reduce the appearance of wrinkles and limiting the effects of skin aging. Evening Primrose Oil also has a relaxing effect on the skin. GLA is essential for the health of cell membranes, and has been associated with benefits in promoting skin health.

Skin Tightener ST
The benefits on skin of marine products such as kelp have long been known. Skin Tightener ST & includes both marine and herbal ingredients that enhance the synthesis of collagen I and III and of fibronectin, firming up the skin and reducing wrinkles. It also contains Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide that promote healthy skin; and Acetyl Hexapeptide-3, which reduces the skin movements that may contribute to wrinkles.

Pentacare NA
Pentacare NA is a new skin tightener that has been developed to deal with the need for a substitute for serum albumen. Serum albumen, commonly extracted from cow's blood, has been used in many skin products. As anyone knows who's paid attention to the news, cow's blood is not the safest source of products to use on our bodies, even granted that mad cow disease is mostly strongly associated with cattle nervous systems. Furthermore, serum albumen has been known to cause crumbling of the skin.

Pentacare NA is derived entirely from plants such as carob and wheat that are safe to use as foods and not associated with "mad anything" disease, so it's danger free. Pentacare NA also has been tested and found not to cause skin crumbling. In other words, it's as good a skin tightener as serum albumen, but has none of the disadvantages.