Skin Care Cream Not Working? It’s Not Your Fault.

You don’t have “problem skin”. Please don’t
let skin care companies (even honest ones like us)
make you feel like you do.

 

We’ve all been disappointed when the latest, greatest, and usually most expensive skin care cream doesn’t deliver on its phenomenal promises. And you may have heard about “angel dusting”, the practice of adding just a sprinkle of a key ingredient to a product (enough to legally say it’s in there).

But what if your skin care cream really does contain high concentrations of nutrients and vitamins – what if what’s on the label really is in the jar in meaningful amounts, and the cream still falls flat?

Some people conclude their skin is the problem – after all, companies aren’t allowed to lie to you flat-out, so if they make these fantastic claims surely there must be some truth behind them. The skin care creams must work for somebody, just not you. …right?

That’s marketing for you: always doing its best to make us feel bad enough to buy into the latest thing they say will ‘fix’ us.

…and skin care marketing isn’t your friend.

The thing is, these companies aren’t lying to you. Perhaps a product really does contain a ton of Ingredient X, which really does provide Benefit Y. Plus A, B, and C – but what they don’t tell you is that skin care creams are actually a poor delivery vehicle for many of the nutrients your skin needs to stimulate natural, healthy growth and healing.

So why are creams so common? Well, skin care is supposed to ‘feel good’, right? Relaxing and refreshing… and creams, with their deep moisturizing capabilities, can feel wonderful to use.

Alas, a single cream cannot possibly provide proper, comprehensive skincare no matter what it says on the label (or what it actually contains). No matter what your skin type, age, ethnicity or gender, you need a system – a complete skin care system – to help your body do what it was born to do: continually renew and heal itself to keep your skin looking young, fresh, and clear for life.

Anything else is just marketing.

It’s NOT your fault

Marketing is everywhere and companies, while they can’t lie to you, find it much easier to sell you the feel-good side of skincare (and keep you coming back for the Next Big Thing when it doesn’t work) than they do to talk you into a more effective, but less flowery, product that actually works as advertised.

So that’s what they do. And people all over the world fall into the cycle, buying ever more expensive and supposedly-magical skincare creams until they just give up out of frustration and start blaming their own “problem skin” for the product’s failure to deliver results.

Don’t blame your skin – it is NOT the problem.

And you CAN achieve results…

with the right system.

You just need to shift your skincare mindset. You need to seek solutions that do more than just feel good. Proper skin care absolutely requires a system, and no one cream is ever going to provide the results you’re looking for, whether it’s soft, young-looking skin or effective treatment for spots, acne, and other blemishes.

Why does feel-good not work-great?

Because, for some of your skin care goals, this is impossible. Quality skin care shouldn’t be drastically uncomfortable, but it’s the end result that makes you feel great, not the process itself. Some essential steps – like exfoliation – are inherently (and necessarily) a little harsher than some feel-good skin cream can manage.

On that note, let’s put some of the most common mostly-lies in skin care to bed for good:

1. One Skin Care Cream to Rule Them All
   

   This is a load of crap, every time. Any skin care system needs two phases at a bare minimum to work even a little bit. These are:
   – A skin-stimulating growth enhancer (“growth phase”)
   – A skin-sealing moisturizer (the “feel good” phase)

2. You can exfoliate too much, thinning your skin

   Don’t believe this for one second. Exfoliation promotes new skin growth and as long as you’re not scrubbing your skin until it’s red. Exfoliate = good.

3. Skin care should always feel peachy
   

   Imagine going to a gym. If you’re trying to build up a muscle, you need to work that muscle repeatedly. Hard. You’ll feel some discomfort during the “growth phase” (at least if you’re doing it right), and that’s how you know your workout’s helping. On the other hand, if you’re just doing a few comfy, easy curls in the mirror, you’ll never see the “feel-good” phase of getting the results you want because you’re taking it far too easy on the muscles you want to improve.

 

Because proper smart skin care is a tangible treatment
(not just hopeful trial-and-error)

You wouldn’t expect your doctor to offer up some magical miracle cure for everything under the sun. You wouldn’t expect 10 easy gym-minutes per day to create an Olympics-ready body. And you shouldn’t expect a single skin care cream (no matter how miraculous it claims to be) to deliver comparable skin care results.

Your skin is a series of systems naturally evolved to protect, heal, and rejuvenate itself. Life in the modern world can easily hamper your body’s systems and it can be frustratingly difficult to get things back in balance if you don’t take the appropriate steps to stimulate these processes.

 

Your skin is NOT the reason Cream X doesn’t work.

You’ve been misled by marketing – and that’s not your fault.

If your skin care system isn’t working, it’s not you. It’s the skin care.

 

We could go on all day about this – and would be happy to do so. Our expert skin care team has been helping people change their whole perception of skin care (and enjoy healthier, happier skin than they ever thought they’d have again) for over 80 years.

 

 

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