Best Mid-Priced Wrinkle Creams Are the Best You Can Buy - At Any Price

The best midpriced wrinkle creams sound like a compromise -- this is what you buy when you just can't afford the best, most expensive cream.

Here's a lovely surprise: the best midpriced wrinkle creams are actually the best you'll find anywhere, at any price.

That's because -- though you may find it hard to believe -- there's no relationship between price and quality.

There's only one exception to that truth, and that's at the very bottom end of the price scale. If you buy a wrinkle cream for $5, you know the manufacturer gave up all attempt at real quality to make the cheapest stuff on the shelf.

Don't just take my word for this.

My favorite consumer magazine tested wrinkle creams a couple of years ago. Now nobody's perfect and anyone can be wrong, but this magazine is a class act, and millions of people trust it (including me).

So what did they find?

"There was no correlation at all between price and effectiveness," they said. One of the best products they tested cost under $60, and one of the worst cost $335.

It happens that the best such creams I've ever used are only midpriced. They would have been among the lower-priced products in the magazine test I've I've just mentioned -- but they are very modern; they didn't even come on the market till after the magazine test was published.

So what should you be looking for in a wrinkle cream?

Look for cutting-edge ingredients that have been proven effective in clinical trials -- and make sure the cream contains these ingredients in the same concentrations that worked so well in the trials! It's common for skin care products to use only small amounts of effective ingredients, too little to be any use, just so they can name the ingredient on the label.

What are those ingredients? I'll name three, all proven effective used all alone, and very powerful when used together in a skin care formula with other effective ingredients.

-- Cynergy TK contains keratin, an essential component of healthy skin, hair and nails, in a unique "bio-available" form -- meaning it's very easily absorbed and used by the skin to heal and produce new skin cells. It stimulates the skin to boost its own natural production of collagen and elastin, also stimulates the skin's antioxidant production, and in just an 18-day trial improved skin elasticity by 42 percent.

-- Coenzme Q10, or CoQ10 for short, is a superb natural antioxidant for the skin, combining with natural Vitamin E to create perhaps the most powerful antioxidant combination in skin care. That's important because oxidation damage is a major cause of aging skin and wrinkles. Most CoQ10 is absorbed poorly, however, and most skin care products don't contain enough to be effective. The best I've seen is CoQ10 in a "nano-emulsion," tiny particles that are absorbed deeply into the skin and have wonderful anti-wrinkle effects.

-- An extract of seaweed from the Sea of Japan called Phytessence Wakame blocks the loss of hyaluronan (or hyaluronic acid), which is another essential ingredient for youthful skin -- and is usually lost more and more as we get older.

Find those ingredients and you'll have my choice of the best midprice wrinkle cream, and -- this is no surprise -- it's also the very best I've ever found. by Kathryn Lane