The difference between an anti-aging wrinkle cream and a wrinkle serum is their intent. Which is why many companies now sell both a cream and a serum in the same line of anti-aging products.
Wrinkle serums deliver help on the molecular level to help revitalize your skin. Wrinkle creams work on the surface to protect and moisturize your skin.
The perfect wrinkle serum contains topical compounds, with a small enough molecular structure to penetrate the skin and help molecules develop and regenerate. In order to do this, wrinkle serums work as a carrier system for peptides, aliphatic aminodiol lipids such as sphingosine, skin renewal acids, such as lactic, hydroxybenzoic or retinoic acid as well as many other elements. Scientists have been able to process these elements to such a fine level that they can be topically applied, yet penetrate the molecular barrier of our skin.
When cosmeceutical companies talk about the "science of aging," they're not kidding. Ten years ago, the processes to get wrinkle serum components small enough to work as they now do, did not practically exist. And very little of the research that was being done was targeted to the cosmetics industry. Many wrinkle serums owe their existence to cancer research.
Wrinkle creams have the outside guard duty for your skin. While a serum will help your skin resist the damage of UV rays, a cream will form an actual barrier to prevent UV rays from getting through. Wrinkle creams will form a shield to keep the hydration in your skin from getting out and the pollutants from bad air and cigarette smoke from getting in.
Wrinkle serums and creams don’t always co-exist well, especially if you are using products from two different manufacturers. It can take some serums up to 15 minutes before they have completely penetrated the skin. Applying both a serum and a cream in too short a period can result in the serum causing the cream not to work or absorb as planned. Or the cream can bind the elements of the serum, causing them to fail to penetrate the molecules of the skin.
It’s worth changing your skin care regimen so that both wrinkle serums and wrinkle creams have a chance to work properly.
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