Yep, it’s a beauty treatment I’m talking about. I remember when these first few “wrinkle vanishing” serums came out a few years ago – well, make that probably a decade ago by now. They advertised as being these wrinkle reducing wonder creams and serums that they would actually show being applied to a person face. Miraculously, the persons wrinkles seemed to disappear after application.
Unfortunately, it was only a temporary effect. The common ingredient in such products is albumen, which is the stiff protein found in egg whites that helps to plaster things in place for a little while. And when I say a little while, I mean a very little while.
I tried these so called miracle serums, and they did seem to make wrinkles disappear temporarily, and smooth the facial skin out. However, once it stopped working it REALLY stopped working. My skin actually looked worse after it stopped because I then took on a sort of cracked appearance, and the wrinkles look magnified.
This was when I was in my early thirties, so imagine what it would do now that I’m in my late thirties. Basically, you can get the skin smoothing effects of the albumen by applying a home made mask of whipped egg white to the face.
It doesn’t look, smell or feel very pretty but it can be a nice infusion of protein and vitamins to the skin, and it does make the skin look a bit tighter, brighter and prettier the next morning. Oh, and make sure you don’t get any raw egg in your mouth or in your eyes, don’t want to get salmonella poisoning from a simple beauty treatment!
Albumen is basically just a very thick protein. It is what makes the white of the egg fry up all fluffy when it hits the heat. When applied in serums, it basically creates a temporary glaze and “filler” over fine lines, crows feet and wrinkles that gives the illusion of smoothing and wrinkles disappearing.
I’m sure you’ve noticed, these serums haven’t totally caught on, which is because they don’t work for very long. If they gave the results you see in the first ten minutes for an entire day, they’d be selling out all over the place.
