There are so many different skin care creams available these days, with shelf after shelf of products offering all manner of different miracles. The difficulty is choosing a cream that is going to be right for you. Trying to make sense of all the different claims is hard enough, but then you have to be able to work out what skin type you have and what you actually want your new skin care cream to do.
The first thing to decide is why you are buying a new face cream. Has your old one run out or are you just looking for something new? Perhaps you have seen an advert that has caught your eye and you would like to try it. So many of us are guilty of having pots of half-used cream on our dresser, most of which will go off before we get round to finishing them off. Try to stick to one cream at a time (two if you like to use night cream) so that you will get the full benefit of it, and of course won’t waste half of it! It takes your skin a while to adapt to new face creams, roughly speaking our skin regenerates every 6 weeks, so until you have used a cream for a minimum of 6 weeks you won’t see the full benefit of it.
If you definitely do need a new cream, then what do you want from it? Are you going for anti-aging, wrinkle reducing, complexion improving or just simple moisturising – there are many creams that offer more than one benefit, so have a shop round and see what can give you all you want and maybe more. The one thing that you should always make sure you skin care cream contains is a sunscreen, unless of course it’s night cream! Ideally you should opt for factor 15 as a minimum, even on cloudy days your skin is getting hit with UV rays that will only speed up the aging process.
If money is no object then the range of creams available to you will be endless, so once you know what you want from your cream you are ready to go and spend! For those that have a budget it may actually be easier to find the product you want as you will have limitations on the range you are looking at. It is worth remembering that a high price doesn’t necessarily equate to a good quality cream, many budget brands actually contain the same ingredients as their more expensive competitors but are just in less fancy packaging, so don’t dismiss them out of hand before you begin.
It is also worth having a look online for reviews of skin care creams, it is always good to read other peoples opinions of creams, especially the more pricey ones before you jump in yourself, it may be that you can save yourself some money by doing a bit of research first.
