Reduces Wrinkles by 50%!

May 4, 2008

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This blog has a tab and category for skin. When I started this blog I thought I would have a reasonable number of posts about skincare, wrinkles and skin aging in general.

It seems that there are a lot of claims and few facts. I am amazed that I have found so little to blog about.

Much of the problem is that all the formulas and ingredients are proprietary. The companies make the claims, but do not put out any data to back it up. I am sure there is some great stuff out there, but how do you know which product is great and which one is rubbish? There are a few products that do have a scientific background that I will soon discuss, but most of it is just a black box.

Some of the claims are nice and vague. For instance, “Reduces wrinkles by 50%.” Sounds great until you think what exactly does that mean? Who knows? I am damn sure it does not mean that you have 50% less wrinkles. Does it mean that your wrinkles are 50% less deep? Changed from the Grand Canyon to the Columbia Gorge? Or more likely, 50% of the wrinkles looked less deep. Anything that plumps up your skin can temporarily do that, since stretching the skin out will make the wrinkles less deep. Short term non-surgical face lift in a bottle. If only we knew which ones work.

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