Some wrinkle creams work; some don't, but how can you tell the difference? While each person's skin is different, a handful of key ingredients seem to create much more dramatic, reliable change by hydrating your skin, clearing out dead cells and toxins, and stimulating your skin to do everything it can to keep itself strong and soft.
Quick Tips:
• Look for products containing alpha hydroxy acids, retinol, tretinoin, CoQ-10, or copper peptides; these help counteract wrinkles more directly and effectively.
• Day creams with a sun-protection effect (SPF 15 or higher) often help plump and firm up skin better, while limiting further sun-related tissue damage.
• Most creams take at minimum 2 weeks to show results, and their effects will differ significantly from individual to individual. For best results, consult a dermatologist to help you choose.
Top Picks:
1. Olay® Regenerist product line
With an SPF of 15 and a full selection of options designed for day and night use, this cream offers dramatic results while helping to nourish skin.
2. Philosophy Hope in a Jar®
A "lighter-weight" option for women concerned about the pore-clogging potential of heavier creams, this product aims to smooth out fine lines dramatically, and is also available in a special formula for women with drier and more delicate skin.
3. Lancome Paris Renergie line
This dual-effect cream focuses on alleviating wrinkles at two levels, strengthening tissue proteins from the inside while lending a softer, smoother texture to skin at the surface.
4. RoC® Retin-Ox+ and Retinol Correxion Deep Wrinkle treatments
Combining powerful retinol treatments with minerals to help stimulate healthier skin, this line of products aims to reduce skin's apparent age by up to 10 years.
5. Estée Lauder® Time Zone Line and Wrinkle Reducing Cream
This line of treatments aims to plump and refresh tissues through an SPF 15 moisturizer, minimizing wrinkles, while the lift serum works against age spots and facial lines from the outside in.
6. Neutrogena Visibly Firm® Night Cream with Active Copper
Also available as an SPF 15 moisturizer, this night cream focuses on improving skin firmness at a deeper level by stimulating better skin elasticity, smoothing wrinkles and increasing skin's strength at the same time.
7. Relastin™ Eye Silk
This eye-focused treatment is getting attention from dermatologists and beauty experts and aims to stimulate elastin production, reducing eyelid wrinkles while helping to mask lower-lid puffiness and dark circles.
8. StriVectin-SD® Intensive Concentrate for Existing Stretch Marks
Originally designed as to soften and minimize stretch marks, this cream also seems to produce noticeable effects in terms of reducing wrinkles, improving tissue suppleness, and enhancing skin tone.
9. L'Oreal Paris RevitaLift® line
This popular treatment pairs a retinol-enhanced night cream with a powerful sun-protecting day cream to help improve the health of surface skin cells as well as deeper support fibers.
10. La Prairie Cellular
Available as a time-release moisturizer or an exfoliating at-home microdermabrasion treatment, this higher-end product line blends soothing botanicals with wrinkle-reversing moisturizer to help smooth and sustain skin.
Quick Tips:
• Look for products containing alpha hydroxy acids, retinol, tretinoin, CoQ-10, or copper peptides; these help counteract wrinkles more directly and effectively.
• Day creams with a sun-protection effect (SPF 15 or higher) often help plump and firm up skin better, while limiting further sun-related tissue damage.
• Most creams take at minimum 2 weeks to show results, and their effects will differ significantly from individual to individual. For best results, consult a dermatologist to help you choose.
Top Picks:
1. Olay® Regenerist product line
With an SPF of 15 and a full selection of options designed for day and night use, this cream offers dramatic results while helping to nourish skin.
2. Philosophy Hope in a Jar®
A "lighter-weight" option for women concerned about the pore-clogging potential of heavier creams, this product aims to smooth out fine lines dramatically, and is also available in a special formula for women with drier and more delicate skin.
3. Lancome Paris Renergie line
This dual-effect cream focuses on alleviating wrinkles at two levels, strengthening tissue proteins from the inside while lending a softer, smoother texture to skin at the surface.
4. RoC® Retin-Ox+ and Retinol Correxion Deep Wrinkle treatments
Combining powerful retinol treatments with minerals to help stimulate healthier skin, this line of products aims to reduce skin's apparent age by up to 10 years.
5. Estée Lauder® Time Zone Line and Wrinkle Reducing Cream
This line of treatments aims to plump and refresh tissues through an SPF 15 moisturizer, minimizing wrinkles, while the lift serum works against age spots and facial lines from the outside in.
6. Neutrogena Visibly Firm® Night Cream with Active Copper
Also available as an SPF 15 moisturizer, this night cream focuses on improving skin firmness at a deeper level by stimulating better skin elasticity, smoothing wrinkles and increasing skin's strength at the same time.
7. Relastin™ Eye Silk
This eye-focused treatment is getting attention from dermatologists and beauty experts and aims to stimulate elastin production, reducing eyelid wrinkles while helping to mask lower-lid puffiness and dark circles.
8. StriVectin-SD® Intensive Concentrate for Existing Stretch Marks
Originally designed as to soften and minimize stretch marks, this cream also seems to produce noticeable effects in terms of reducing wrinkles, improving tissue suppleness, and enhancing skin tone.
9. L'Oreal Paris RevitaLift® line
This popular treatment pairs a retinol-enhanced night cream with a powerful sun-protecting day cream to help improve the health of surface skin cells as well as deeper support fibers.
10. La Prairie Cellular
Available as a time-release moisturizer or an exfoliating at-home microdermabrasion treatment, this higher-end product line blends soothing botanicals with wrinkle-reversing moisturizer to help smooth and sustain skin.
