Friday, October 24, 2008

The Basics of How Argireline Works in Anti Aging Creams

By Julie Samtsonn

Wrinkles in the skin have many causes. They are part of the aging process, skin cells loose fat content (elastin and collagen) because of several causes. Over exposure to the sun, natural aging even repetitive facial gestures like squinting or pursing the lips. As well as this, the skin cells loose their capacity to seal in moisture, as the fat content slowly deplete the cells that were once plump. This is why the smile lines, frown lines, eyebrow and forehead lines as well as crow's feet lines start to appear.

In anti aging creams, the objective is to keep the lines and wrinkles from forming in the first place, and in the case of anti wrinkle creams, the purpose is to try to retrain the skin cells, to retain moisture and skin muscles to relax the positions they have formed over the years to cause certain skin wrinkles, as in the smiles lines and crow's feet. There are methods of "rebuilding the skin structure" or "remodeling skin cells", as it has been referred to. It usually involves the use of peptides, which is a wound healing process, much like in the case of burn victims, where the skin is remodeled to encourage new skin growth.

Peptides is often used with facial and skin muscle regrowth or retraining a sort of muscle relaxer. Peptides work on a deeper level than topical cream solutions. Argireline is the trade name for Acetyl Hexapeptide-3, which is a peptide. It is also a synthetic anti-aging chemical created from natural proteins, that can be used to stimulate muscle relaxation as well as reflex reactions. It's a way to treat the underlying cause of a wrinkles that show up in a certain position over time.

Argireline has been found to be very successful in reducing the muscle reactions over a period of time, with a small improvement over a 4 week period, and twice as good again over week usage. As with any anti-aging cream or anti-wrinkle creams treatment, when you stop using it the wrinkles will come back again.

Argireline treats the underlying muscles against normal treatment of the surface skin cells. This makes it a lot like a topical form of what Botox does. The cessation of the facial muscle contractions is a short-term solution, even with Botox. Makers of Argireline use less than a 10% ingredient content as a higher level could have side effects, like relaxing the facial muscles too much and creating sagging. While Argireline has not been on the market for long time, long-term effects have not been measured. It is an effective ingredient in topical anti-aging creams and anti-wrinkle creams and is sold in many formulation. - 15275

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