The effects of sun and pollution and simple aging have created markets for hundereds of anti aging skin care products. Some reduce wrinkles. Others only mask them temporarily.Wanting to look younger than you are has been around longer than wrinkles have. Every year, skin care companies work on new agents, or modify current agents to perfect the youth delivering product. We’ve come a long way from elixirs sold by the gentleman in the wagon passing through town with the bottle of “somebody’s cure-all.”Four new slightly different wrinkle injection products were approved by the FDA in 2007. Depending on the doctor or clinic you choose, anti wrinkle injections can cost as much as $1200. Studies indicate that those that contain hyaluronic acid lead to collagen production.Reading the package insert of these wrinkle injections they all have side effects and one of them includes increased risk of granulomas that may be permanent as well as an increased risk of allergic reactions.One of the most damaging effects of aging comes from long-term exposure to sun and pollution. Freed radicals cause the damage, like the visable sings of aging, in the second layer of the skin. Free radicals […]

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