Let’s assume you haven’t waited too long.  You don’t have to resort to surgery or a spa for the celebrities.  If you really aren’t sure how to classify your skin, a visit with your dermatologist is a good start.  Knowing your skin type is basic.

Now you can shop for the anti-aging creams, skin lotions, tightening masks…and stop to read the labels on those products approved and formulated by dermatologists.  With confidence in your healthy skin care products, you’re on your way to scheduling a well-planned skin rejuvenation program.

With a determined, serious YOU in charge…your wrinkles are in deep trouble.

At certain stages in your life you wait for help…or you decide you’ve just had a calling.  “You are about to be in charge of a siege of Acne”, or “You’re now the chief Care-Giver tending your own Anti-Aging Program”.

These realizations pop up as a natural part of our maturing process.  Look for tips on how to establish routines as well as equipment and necessary skin care products.

Obvious tip:  The Internet is full of tips for all Care Givers.

If you really feel short of experience in some area, your dermatologist is another obvious answer.  Dermatologist formulated skin care offers your best options for quality products with active ingredients in higher percentages than most Big Brand companies.

Now, consider where you will store your personal care products.  You know, the products for exfoliation, facial cleansers, anti-aging moisturizers, sugar scrubs and sun screens.  That decided, you’ll be comfortable accepting your new mission.

Find a good skin rejuvenation kit to begin with.  We recommend dermatologist-formulated beauty products as they are more likely to be natural.  Whatever you do, keep a daily skin care routine, morning and night and in between if you’re out in the sun.  Faithfully cleanse with a natural cleanser and tepid, never hot, water.  Exfoliate – this can be done while cleansing if you use a cleanser with salicylic acid.  MOISTURIZE – it’s a must.  At night use a rich night cream.  Lastly, use your sun block regularly – hopefully one with zinc oxide and titanium dioxide.

Facial cleansers come in many packages and are formulated to produce different results. For example:

A cleanser containing chamomile extracts and algae peptides aims to soothe and hydrate the skin. Daily use promotes softer, smoother skin and helps reduce the appearance of fine lines and surface dryness.

A combination of Vitamin E, lavender and aloe combine to provide a creamy wash that soothes and replenishes moisture to your facial skin, leaving it ultra soft and clean.

Then there are exfoliating facial cleansers produced to wash away skin debris, and refine and minimize the appearance of pores. A dermatologist-formulated product will contain a higher concentrate of salicylic acid than most over-the-counter products. The benefit to you is a cleanser for all skin types and especially formulated to calm and clear skin and remove dry, flaky areas.

Choose your facial skin cleanser carefully – use a combination during the week to produce various desired results. Cleansing is the first step in a daily facial skin routine.

Facial masks answer different needs for each of us.  Some are designed to boost the skin’s hydration, improve skin tone and elasticity while firming the facial skin’s texture.  They impart a healthy radiance.  Others draw out impurities from below the surface and absorb excess oils.

Facial masks often include vitamins, minerals and sometimes fruit extract and moisturizers.  All of them leave the skin with an ultra-fresh feeling and should be part of your weekly routine.

A facial mask can be for rejuvenating, revitalizing or just for a rewarding refreshment.  In fact, word is out that men will endure the perceived somewhat less-than-manly treatment to gain the refreshment high.

As we age, our natural process combines with environmental insults which result in the lessening of skin lipids.  Skin lipids are essential structural components of living cells.  They are an oily organic compound which is insoluble in water – a fatty acid that protects the skin when we are younger.

Lipid drops immediately impart a lustrous skin texture and a satiny soft feel to the skin – like a baby’s smoothness.  As we age, lipids deplete and we need to replenish them.  Lipid drops absorb rapidly and result in quickly producing an amazing improvement in skin texture – even after as little as 6 hours.

A small amount of serum will cover the whole face – a 1 oz bottle will last for months.  Apply twice daily for best effectiveness.  Apply lipid drops as a pre-moisturizer before application of an alpha hydrolic acid moisturizing cream for best effectiveness.

Clinical Laboratory Testing shows that after just 14 days of twice a day use, skin smoothness increases 55%, skin hydration increased 47% and the appearance of fine lines decreased by 15%.

You can study and read articles about  skin rejuvenation products and not get the real truth.  Neuropeptides (argineline) plus antioxidants are a powerful anti-wrinkle serum.  Read the label.  How often do we say that? If you can find a product that contains 10%  neuropeptides and multiple anti-oxidants – they are highly effective in reducing crow’s feet, forehead lines, frown  and lip lines.  Neuropeptides enhance Botox.  Or they are an injection alternative (Botox parralizes the nerves) with green tea and Vitamin E – antioxidants that fight free radicals.

Retinyl Palmitate (Vitamin A or Retinol Drops) increases and stimulates collagen production and restores elasticity (elastins) to the skin.

Add all of the above to Hyaluronic Acid, which holds up to 1,000 times its weight in water which then improves skin texture by boosting moisture level and you have a powerful anti-wrinkle product – you might even call it Wri-Lax - relax.  Relax the wrinkles, increase moisture in the skin and the finished product – peachy cream, soft, supple skin.

These are the structural proteins essential to keeping your skin young looking.  So how do you replenish these elements so valuable to a healthy youthful looking skin?  You can’t introduce these elements into your skin.  Their large molecules cannot be accommodated by the pores.  The best skin rejuvenating cream is one that will stimulate production of collagen and elastin.

Always read the ingredients in a skin care product.  Look for alcohol free as alcohol dries your skin.  Products containing anti-oxidants, algae, active peptides and beta hydroxyacids in ideal levels assure real skin improvement.  These ingredients stimulate the productivity of collagen and elastin.  You will most likely find ideal levels in dermatology-formulated products.

Browsing through a Growing Bolder website, I gathered that the way to become a lively centenarian is just to have a growing bolder attitude.  I was really just surfing the internet looking for a new perspective on quality skin care for those growing older.  Maybe I found it. . .with Growing Bolder’s dictum: “It’s all a matter of attitude”.

Suppose we’ve just been mindlessly cruising along , feeling good about life, and taking the matter of aging as a normal, out-of-our-control process, when we wake up one day  and say: “It’s not completely out of our control”.  And before you know it, we’ve taken a new look at skin care and have decided. . . . ..here’s where we can take control.

And soon we’re indulging ourselves with daily and weekly skin care routines, and now able to tell others the language of anti-aging . . . .facial cleanser, exfoliation, anti-aging moisturizing, facial masks, lipid drops, body wash, skin rejuvenation, glycolic renewal gel, body scrubs and more. Growing old? Time to grow bold!  Adopt a revitalized skin care attitude!

Rejuvenate your skin with lipid drops – they will help replace the skin’s natural lipids and should be used twice a day as a premoisturizer.