Anti Aging Skin Care Product User Surprises

If you could achieve the amazing, timeless look of your favorite film star celebrity just by using the right anti aging skin care product, would you hesitate? If Catherine Zeta-Jones were to tell you that she has a secret formula for keeping her phenomenal looks intact despite the passage of time, and that you could find it in your local department store, wouldn’t you be grabbing the car keys right about now? Of course you would! Until you realized that you were probably dreaming.

The scenario just described is purely seductive fiction – seductive because it is the type of everyday miracle that we would all like to have come true at least once in our lives. We all want to have younger looking skin, even if we don’t pin our careers on our looks like big-time movie actresses and haute couture fashion models. For them – the Beautiful People – there is a rarified world of designer label products and pricey procedures that we can only dream about.

A hot trend in the anti aging skin care product market is the advent of “designer dermatologists” who cater to the wealthiest of clients. Offerings such as “Re Vive,” the brainchild of Dr. Gregory Bays Brown in Kentucky, promise amazing results and carry equally amazing prices that can top hundreds of dollars an ounce. The selling point is that these secret formulas are designed to exacting specifications by highly successful and respected dermatologists at the top of their field. The people that they are selling to have the need to stay at the top of their beauty game, as well as the financial means to ante up.

Indeed, the stakes are high enough that it isn’t just the women who are craving, and paying hefty fees for, younger looking skin. Hungarian dermatologist Ernie Lazlo’s high end line of treatments has drawn the favor of men like Brad Pitt, who is also known to stop in for the celebrity spa facial from time to time.

So is it all hype? What could be in these magic potions that would make them able to demand a higher cost than your average dinner for two? Were you to be able to inspect these items you would find many familiar facial friends: amino acids, vitamins, kelp extracts, etc. – nothing too far out of the ordinary ingredient list. Then there might start to be a few surprises, like a synthetic equivalent to the epidermal growth hormone found in the saliva of your favorite household pets.

Crazy you say? Maybe so, but seeking out exotic ingredients to polish an anti aging skin care product secret formula is anything but rare. Just like the things that can turn up in hot dogs, you might be in for a surprise when you check out the ingredient list on your standby face cream – unless you are used to collecting bee mucous extract, that is.

Concocting eccentric secret formulas for creams or masks in the name of beauty also is not a new idea. The Habsburg Empress Sisi used ground slugs as part of her daily regimen to ensure younger looking skin in 19th century Austria. It is a tradition that extends to Cleopatra and the days of the Pharaohs, and undoubtedly much further back than that.

Don’t get discouraged if you cannot afford the same anti aging skin care product as your favorite femme of the silver screen, or if your wrinkle cream seems amazingly ordinary to you. If you see positive results in your mirror from time to time, you are moving in the right direction.