How Can You Identify the Best Anti-aging Cream?
As an adult man or woman hears yet another refrain of “Happy Birthday to You,” that maturing individual often gives thought to the possibility of purchasing an anti-aging cream. A wise person does not want to spend his or her money foolishly. If you are informed, you recognize the value of locating the best anti-aging cream on the market. How should an intelligent adult go about finding a cream of superior quality?
A successful quest for a cream that could put an end to the effects of aging should begin with a search for a product that has proven ingredients on its label. Such a product might, for example, carry the words “naked minerals.” An effective one often contains “naked minerals.”
What are “naked minerals?” They are minerals that have only a slight effect on the surface skin. Once applied to the skin, “naked minerals” penetrate down to the deep skin cells. Aging skin contains an increasing number of dead skin cells. Every day, the skin looses many dead skin cells.
The loss of those cells causes the deep skin cells to rise to the surface. Application to the skin of the cream nourishes the deep skin cells. When an anti-aging cream supplies deep skin cells with naked minerals, then it prepares those cells for their journey to the surface of the skin.
At this point, a thoughtful reader might be wondering what foods would provide an adult with valuable “naked minerals.” In the past, you could get needed minerals by eating fresh fruits and vegetables. Today, however, the growing use of insecticides and pesticides has reduced the number of minerals in those farm-fresh products. That is why cosmetic companies now put “naked minerals” in their age-fighting creams.
The reader should bear this fact in mind: The “naked minerals” do not have the ability to make new skin cells, even when those deep skin cells are found in youthful skin. The “naked minerals” simply provide deep skin cells with vital, life-giving substances. When any of those substances enters a skin cell that contains essential oils, then the combined action of those two cellular components can slow the effects of aging.
Above, you learned about the importance of naked minerals. Now you have been introduced to the term “essential oils.” What are “essential oils,” and why do they deserve mention in an article about anti-aging cream?
Essential oils are organic chemicals, chemicals extracted from plants. Those who make an effort to track-down the best cream recognize the healing power of essential oils. At the same time, anyone familiar with a proven age-fighting cream knows that the extraction of essential oils must take place in a laboratory.
The best anti-aging cream has essential oils that scientists obtained by extracting plant oils under conditions of the highest possible cleanliness. In addition, such a cream generally has on its label information about the qualifications of the chemists and biochemists that have performed the extraction.
Now while an anti-aging cream might have on its label the words “naked minerals,” it seldom carries the words “essential oils.” Instead, its label might carry the name of some particular oil. What essential oil could a consumer expect to find in the best?
The consumer who plans to purchase an age-fighting cream might find the words “rosewood oil” on the label. Rosewood slows the development of aging skin. Lanolin and myrrh oil also aid the rejuvenation of aging skin. Those three named essential oils can restore to aging skin the characteristics that are associated with more youthful skin.
As skin ages, it begins to loose its elasticity. A good anti-aging cream can help aging skin to recover its lost elasticity. Collagen and elastin are skin proteins, proteins that give skin its characteristic elasticity.
How can you identify the best anti-aging cream? Look for a skin care product that does more that simply fill-in any lines on your face. Use a cream that protects your skin both day and night. Use a product that stimulates the production of age-fighting proteins, proteins such as elastin and collagen.
By securing the proper cream, you can enjoy seeing a face with youthful skin each time that you look in the mirror.
THE PIPE CLEANER in OLD JAPAN — or, Japan’s Love Affair with Tobacco
Image by Okinawa Soba (On the Road for a While)
One of the best shots I’ve seen of an itinerant Japanese pipe-seller-fixer-upper-cleaner, and parts supplier…..with his tools in hand, and at his feet ! Photo attributed to SHINICHI SUZUKI, AND dated to about 1873.
Japan and Tobacco go together like cold whipped cream on a pumpkin pie.
Okinawa_Soba has been to more than one Japanese get-together where he was the only male not smoking. Most recently it was at a restaurant where 50 of us were eating, drinking, talking, giving speeches, and (except for me)….chain smoking. I excused myself and left early as the thick haze in the air started to make me feel sick, and my "photographer’s eyes" were starting to burn. Okinawa_Soba is a real wimp !
Wine and women have the opposite effect on me, though (thank God).
Speaking of women. The twisted inner workings of Japan’s inscrutable bureaucracy appointed (in recent times) the head of JAPAN TOBACCO to also head up the MINISTRY OF HEALTH. Any other civilized nation in the world might see a "conflict of interest" in that arrangement, but…not Japan.
When one of the up-and-coming female department heads in the Ministry of Health launched a NO SMOKING campaign, he immediately had her fired from her position in the ministry, and banished never to return.
When it comes to the Japanese and their over-riding love of all things tobacco, there are endless stories to tell such as the above absurdity.
I heard one reporter who was covering the annual G8 Summit Meeting say, "Why is it always ONLY the Japanese Prime Ministers who are the chain smokers?"
Why, when Okinawa_Soba was conducting a two-week business tour in the USA for three Japanese business men, did we have to stop our no-smoking Rent-a-Car on the interstates every 15 minutes so that they all could take a smoking break — getting us to every destination hours behind schedule…every day.
Surprise ! Many Drug Stores / Pharmacies in Japan sell cigarettes. You can get a pack of Winston, Marlborough, Lucky Strikes, or whatever you want….they’re right behind the counter between the Band-Aids and the Multi-Vitamins. THE LOGIC ? "….Nicotine is a perfectly legal drug used to calm the nerves…."
Ad infinitum.
Search "JAPAN SMOKING" on any search engine, and you will have enough stories and statistics to keep you busy.
Here’s just a few stats you can find anywhere on Japan as a CIVILIZED nation, and they will all differ according to source :
# The tobacco market is controlled by just a few corporations – namely American, British and JAPANESE multinational conglomerates.
# About 51% of men smoke in Japan – this figure has dropped from the 1980s, but it is still very high for a developed nation. In specific regions of Japan, the numbers are as high as 70%.
# Prevalence of smoking among women, once considered almost taboo, has risen dramatically in the last decade to nearly 10% on average, with some regions and occupations as much as 25 % or more.
# Japan’s Finance Ministry is a major shareholder in Japan Tobacco, a multinational.
# A survey in the early 1990s found that 44% of male physicians smoke in Japan.
NOTE: 26 years ago, when my daughter was born in one of the best maternity hospitals in Japan, I noticed that the chain-smoking Doctor was not keeping his habit to himself, but was instead blowing his smoke all over the newborns in the "display room" as chain-smoking relatives stood in the hall and looked at their future chain-smoking little Samurai and Geisha Girls. Talk about Smoked Ham. The wrinkled little babies (including my own!) were getting smoked and cured like a side of pork in a Hickory House.
In my normal blunt fashion — devoid of all diplomacy and respect, and IN FRONT OF HIS NURSING STAFF — I ripped the doctor for being a FAKE, FRAUD, and a QUACK, devoid of common sense, using a phony M.D. License from a Joke Store, and having absolutely NO understanding, consideration, or care for the babies he was delivering.
Two of the Japanese nurses hid their faces, and one ducked behind the nursing station. I was well aware that in Japan, Doctors are accorded the status of GOD. However, to any foreigner who knows better, we understand that they are more like (and protected like) the Old Emperor in classic children’s story, THE EMPEROR’S NEW CLOTHES — embarrassingly BUTT NAKED. So much for being God.
The very next time I showed up at the hospital, the entire place was plastered with NO SMOKING signs. My second daughter was born there in smoke-free peace.
THE YAKUZA
The only trouble I had was outside the hospital, where I parked my car in spot that (unbeknownst to me) was reserved for the head of the local YAKUZA gang. When his henchmen came out and menacingly told me to MOVE IT (complete with having-my-throat-cut gestures thrown at me) I told them (politely) I was leaving it right there, and that if they bombed my car, or if it was not there when I got back from seeing my kid born, they would regret it. LONG STORY SHORT… I parked there every day until my wife and newborn daughter went home. I later met the "Head Honcho" in his hideout, thanked him for the use of his "pirated" public parking space, and took 3-D photos of his tattoos as well. God Bless Japan.
More stats….
# With 500,000 cigarette vending machines, the young can easily buy cigarettes. Recently, some regions of Japan are putting "shut down" timers on vending machines to prevent under-age kids from using the machines from (for example) 11 PM to 6 AM.
# Lung cancer is the leading cancer, with more than 50,000 deaths a year.
# More Japanese men die of lung cancer than suicide. The rate of lung cancer deaths is 46 per 100,000 people while the suicide rate is 30 per 100,000.
# Japan has some of the weakest anti-tobacco laws for a developed nation, with few smoke-free public areas.
PHOTO CREDIT : The Tom Burnett Collection. Used with Permission.
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