Cosmeceuticals is a marketing word representing the marriage of  cosmetics and pharmaceuticals. Cosmeceuticals are cosmetic products with active biological ingredients claiming to have medical or drug-like benefits. Beauty aids cosmecueticals reportedly work like prescription drugs, are providing scientific ways to clinically treat aging skin.

A  Journal entry recently published in Cosmetic Dermatology explores the variety of cosmecuetical ingredients that provide a  noticeable improvement in older skin.

The most apparant signs of aging include lack of skin surface regularity, new wrinkles, and increased hyperpigmentation. Zoe Diana Draelos, MD, of Dermatology Consulting Services, High Point, North Carolina, assessed the cosmecuetical efficiency in a variety of ingredients on each of these areas of mature skin.

She found that skin appearance irregularity can be improved through the application of niacin – a type of vitamin A, while the visibility of fine lines can be reduced through moisturizers containing engineered peptides (collagen components) and over-the-counter retinoids. Irregular pigmentation can become more even with the use of sunblock ingredients. Furthermore, combining  ingredients in a moisturizing cosmecuetical can multiply benefits andvisibly  improve skin.

via Cosmecueticals improve skin

Common cosmeceutical ingredients include but are not limited to, and many are derivations of natural botanical products:

amino acids, peptides, growth-factors, anti-inflammatory botanicals, pigment-lightening agents and polysaccharides, fish polysaccharides, alpha hydroxyl acids, B vitamin choline, retinoids, kinetin, anti-enzymatic agents, anti-oxidants such as ascorbic acid, pycnogenol, ursolic acid, vegetable isoflavones, vitamin E, coenzyme Q10, lipoic acid, resveratorol, l-carnosine and taurine. They are more like pharmaceuticals rather than cosmetics. Health risks connected with these agents needs careful reflection before being promoted.

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