With skin care products, especially ones that address wrinkles and act as anti aging agents on your skin, it can be hard to tell when you should be throwing in the towel, so to speak, on their benefits. I’ve used many excellent skin care products and creams that it took me several weeks to see a noticeable benefit from, and in the end I was glad I stuck with it and let it go to work on really helping my skin.
In this world of an increased sense of “now” and instant gratification, we tend to forget that like all good things worth waiting for, a good wrinkle cream is worth it’s weight in gold if you can wait for it to start working and showing visible results.
I remember I used this one particular vitamin C serum that felt wonderful gliding onto my skin. It just made my skin “feel good” when I put it on. I also loved the fact that is sank right into my skin and seemed to really absorb well, leaving no residue. I thought it wasn’t really making a difference in the actual appearance of my skin until several weeks later, when I realized it had actually diminished several darker spots on the sides of my face that were no doubt due to sun damage.
It also made my skin look brighter, and was an awesome addition to my night time skin care routine, because it was so light and weightless and it let other products go on top of it with no sticky, built up feeling. You should really try to give any skin care product about four weeks to start seeing a difference in your skin before you give up on it and move on to the next best thing.
Why? Well, dermatologists think this is about the right amount of time for your skin layers to start renewing themselves (a good anti aging product will renew your skin cells faster). And if your skin care product is working right, it will be increasing cell turnover and improving your skin’s appearance in about that time frame. Any sooner, and consider yourself lucky.
Now, it’s a different story if you find that a skin care product is interacting with your skin negatively. If it makes your skin burn too much or is making you break out in a rash, obviously this is a reason to give up no it quickly. Otherwise, stay the course and see if this might be the perfect product for your skin.
