Incorporating hyaluronic acid products in to your daily skin care regime is a great way to keep your skin properly hydrated and youthful.
However, most products containing hyaluronic acid as an actual ingredient are not as effective as they are perceived to be.
This article will explain why, and will also help guide you in the right direction as to which type of hyaluronic acid products you should get.
If you didn't already know, HA is a substance found in all of your skin cells that is responsible for retaining moisture.
In fact, each molecule of HA can retain up to 1,000 times it's weight in water! Needless to say, you want to have high amounts of this substance in your skin so it can stay supple and wrinkle-free.
Most of the hyaluronic acid products on the market today are products containing hyaluronic acid as an actual ingredient.
When applied to the skin, these molecules supposedly penetrate through your skin to increase it's overall concentration of HA.
Because of the claims made by most skin care companies about their products containing hyaluronic acid, consumers are led to believe that these treatment options are viable solutions.
This probably explains why so many people purchase them.
However, this type of skin treatment is USELESS because HA molecules are generally too large to penetrate through your skin.
Ultimately though, this fact does not stop most companies from making products like these because quite frankly, they are hot sellers.
But since you have taken the time to read this article before making a buying decision, you do not have waste your time and money on products containing hyaluronic acid to find out that they are worthless! Instead, the hyaluronic acid products you DO want to get are the ones containing ingredients that help to PRESERVE the amounts of natural HA in your skin by PREVENTING the breakdown of it.
This is most successfully done by using creams or lotions that stop the activity of the enzyme in your body responsible for breaking down HA, hyaluronidase.
An ingredient like Phytessence Wakame works great at doing exactly this.
This is a prized Japanese ingredient made from the extract of native sea kelp.
Since it is so effective at inhibiting the activity of hyaluronidase, it acts as an ideal HA preserver which is why it's one of the primary active ingredients in all of the skin care products I use.