Before diving into the list of anti wrinkle cream ingredients to look for in your skin care creams, we need to educate ourselves some on the skin itself so we can better understand what makes a skin care product good or bad. The main cause of wrinkles in our skin is the breakdown of collagen and elastin in our skin. Collagen is a protein in our body that is fibrous by nature and posses a higher than normal tensile strength when compared to other proteins in the body. Collagen makes up about 25% of all protein in humans and in combination with elastin gives body tissues form and provides firmness.

Elastin is also a protein found in our bodies that helps the skin stay flexible and firm both at the same time. When your skin is stretched, elastin is the protein that helps is return to its original state.

What does all this mean? As collagen and elastin breakdown over time, the firmness of our skin deteriorates and thus wrinkles begin to form and skin begins to sag.

This information can help us determine which anti wrinkle creams are actually going to provide us with wrinkle relief and not a facade which will be shattered the next time we wash our face. Anti wrinkle creams that contain ingredients that encourage new collagen and elastin production in your skin is what you need to enjoy long lasting results.

Now that we know what causes wrinkles and signs of aging, we need to know one more important piece of the puzzle in finding an effective anti wrinkle cream. We all know that you must actually include some of whatever you put on the label as an ingredient in your product. Manufacturers know this as well and so in order to get around this rule they will put trace amounts of known effective ingredients on their label just so they can say they have it in their product. Therefore, the key to finding a good anti wrinkle cream is finding products that not only contain these key ingredients, but also contain them in high enough concentrations to benefit your skin.

But why would manufacturers do this? The simple answer is... the best anti wrinkle cream ingredients are expensive. So the less they can put in their products, the more profit they can make. So when you are choosing an anti wrinkle cream product it is important to select one with a high concentration of these good ingredients, not just one that contains them.

Now that we know what have an idea of what kind of ingredients we need to be looking for in an anti wrinkle cream, let's read about the specific ingredients we are after. Click Here to continue to Part 2.