Wrinkle Skin Cream - Know Your Skin Before You Choose
By Katrin Sumner 
If you want to get the best out of any Wrinkle Skin Cream, it is essential that you get to know what type of skin you have - and it never ceases to surprise me how many people don't know their own skin. If you don't know what it's like, you can't care for it properly. Broadly speaking, skin is generally classified as one of three types, dry, oily or combination. But how true is that - is it always the same? Most women would answer that question with a resounding 'No'. Using the right product for your skin type won't do any good at all if your skin type is changing constantly - you need something that deals with the underlying condition - not just the surface.
Your skin is affected by so many things, lifestyle, weather, hormones - even the bar of chocolate you ate last night, you need to look deeper to care for it properly. You need to understand what makes your skin the way it is to be able to pick the best wrinkle skin cream to help it. So what influences how your skin develops? First of all, your genetic heritage, and there isn't much you can do about that, observe your parents skin and see how that behaves, your's may not follow exactly that pattern but it will have similarities. Then you have to look at your own health and well being, as well as your stage in life, hormones have a huge effect on how our skin behaves, particularly when we are undergoing changes such as puberty or the menopause, not to mention the monthly changes that the menstrual cycle causes. Hormonal changes are not just the province of women either, men do have similar problems, they just don't tend to be quite so marked.
The factors that you can influence are lifestyle based, diet, exercise and general good health management will have quite a dramatic effect. Your drinking and smoking habits will also contribute to this, the amount of water you drink each day has a huge effect on skin elasticity. Whilst climate is outside your control, you can mitigate it's effects by a sensible skin care regime and by protecting your skin against extremes of weather. Most of us use some kind of cream to protect our skin and the effect of that contributes to the state of your skin as you age and start to need something that is a more specific wrinkle skin cream,. If you have used rich emollient creams your skin may be a little oily, whereas strong cleansers and over enthusiastic use of exfoliators will tend to make your skin dry and flaky.
You should never try and assess your skin immediately after washing, cleansing or facial treatments. try and avoid any kind of skin preparation for at least four hours after washing to give your skin time to adjust to the chemical barrage that you have just used to get it clean. The first step is to observe your skin. Look in the mirror, do you see any flaking or cracking? Does your skin feel stretched and tight? If most of your face feels like that then you would be safe to say your skin is dry.
If there are no visible signs of dryness, are there any shiny areas that feel slippy to the touch. Take a piece of soft tissue and blot your face, checking after each touch. If the tissue is translucent when you hold it up to the light, then your skin is oily in those places. A combination skin is just as it sounds, you have some of each, and most people tends to fall into this category as they get older and start needing some antiaging skin care.
Having evaluated your skin bearing in mind the visible and invisible factors you can then start to make some judgements about the kind of skin care regime that you need, but do remember that this evaluation is your skin as it is now. In a couple of months or so, it may well change, this is nothing to do with age. It is to do with all the factors covered earlier. You should reassess it regularly and don't be afraid to vary your routine or try new products. Taking care of your skin is something you need to do from a very young age to prevent the kind of damage that even the best wrinkle skin cream won't be able to fix, so investing a little time in getting to know it now will pay dividends later.
Antiaging skin care is something Katrin Sumner knows a great deal about. You can read more about her and why she cares about it on her Skin Care website and discover more about her views on Wrinkle Skin Cream and whether you should use it or not.
