Are anti-aging skin care products really useful? At what age is it appropriate to start using them?

Anti-aging skin care products are really useful, but they are by no means a miracle drug that can rejuvenate your youth. As for when to start using them, there is never a unified standard that "must be arranged at the age of 25". It all depends on your skin condition.

I have been working in skin care related fields for almost 6 years, and I have seen too many examples of people who break the age standard. A little while ago, a little girl from 2001 came to me. She works as an e-commerce operator. She stays up until two or three o'clock every day to stare at the backstage and never leaves her hand with milk tea cakes. At the age of 22, dry lines under her eyes and false nasolabial folds at the corners of her mouth have appeared. The apples of her cheeks are also a bit saggy. She feels loose even when she touches her face. She is in worse shape than many 27-year-old girls I know who have a regular schedule. She first maintained the barrier for two weeks, and then switched to a low-concentration complex peptide essence. She either wore a hat or a mask or applied enough sunscreen every day when she went out. When she came back to me more than three months later, the few shallow lines were almost invisible, her face was much tighter, and she looked more energetic.

Of course, there are always people who say that anti-aging skin care products are an IQ tax, and this is actually not entirely wrong. If you have a regular daily routine and apply sun protection regularly, and your skin is as plump as a freshly picked peach in your early 20s, with not even a single dry line to be found, then you have to spend thousands to buy an anti-aging cream with a high concentration of Bose. Apart from moisturizing your skin, there is really no additional effect after using it. You might even end up with a dull face due to overnutrition. At this time, it is really not unfair to say that you have paid the IQ tax.

There was a lot of debate on the Internet before about "should I use anti-aging products before the age of 25?" I have also fallen into the trap myself. I still believed this statement a few years ago. When I was 24 years old, I worked on a project for a month, and now two dry lines suddenly appeared. I hurriedly used low-concentration alcohol A, which took almost two months to disappear. Since then, I no longer believe in any unified age line. The age of 25 is just the average watershed for most people’s natural aging. If you act harshly and stay up late every day, eating sweets and drinking milk tea without sun protection, your collagen will start to fall off at the age of 20. Do you have to wait until you are old enough to start taking care of your skin? On the other hand, if you are born with strong skin and are good at taking care of it, and there are still no lines on your face at the age of 30, it is totally fine to use it a year or two later.

In fact, this is very similar to maintaining a car. When a new car is first driven, it is enough to change the engine oil regularly for basic maintenance. After driving tens of thousands of kilometers, minor problems appear, and then perform targeted in-depth maintenance. If you drive violently every day and insist on waiting for five years before maintenance, the car will have been damaged long ago, and no matter how much money you spend on repairs, it will not be back to its original condition. Anti-aging skin care products are for skin care. They can help you promote collagen production, fill in the shallow dry lines that have already grown, and delay the emergence of new lines. However, their effects have a limit. If you have deep static lines or even severe sagging, then applying skin care products is really useless. It is better to go directly to a reliable medical beauty institution instead of spending money on facial creams and essences.

Oh, by the way, one last thing to mention, the prerequisite for all anti-aging is to protect yourself from the sun. If you are tanned every day without any protection, no matter how expensive the anti-aging serum is, it will be useless. This is really important to remember.