I’ve noticed that for almost all of the facial skin care products I looked at, there are both supporters that swear by their effectiveness, and “boo’ers” that complain they had wasted their money on the product.  I guess what this boils down to is that different products work for different folks because everyone’s skin is different.  For this reason, I’m prepared to try at least several different skin care products until I find one that works well enough for me.

The problem is that this stuff costs money – some of them a lot.  I could just limit myself to the cheaper products, but then, if I end up trying a bunch of stuff that don’t work, won’t that be a waste of more money?  I’d much rather spend a little more and actually get something that works.

Then I found a way to minimize the costs of buying and trying different products – many products offer free trials, where they let you try the product for a number of days for free.  If a product doesn’t work for me, I could send it back before the deadline and not pay anything.

The only thing I need to watch is that I don’t sign up for scam offers, which seem to be rampant in facial cream trial offers.  I’ve come across complaint reports filed by consumers who have ordered the “free trial products”, only to find out afterwards that the 14-day “free trial period” (for example) included shipping time for BOTH WAYS.  Now how would that give anyone time to test the product when it takes 5-7 days to ship the product each way?  I made a mental note to always read the terms and conditions of each offer before signing up.

So, I’m going to be compiling a list of free trials to choose from.  Then, I’ll research each product by going to forums where I can find genuine feedback by consumers (instead of the “review sites” that get paid to promote products and “top 10″ sites that get paid to rank certain products higher than others).  After that I’ll pick some free trials to actually try out.

Please stay tuned!

]]> http://www.antiagingfacialcreams.net/too-many-choices-and-traps/feed 0 http://www.antiagingfacialcreams.net/why-anti-aging-facial-creams-all-of-a-sudden http://www.antiagingfacialcreams.net/why-anti-aging-facial-creams-all-of-a-sudden#comments Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:30:17 +0000 Karen http://antiagingfacialcreams.net/?p=3 Thanks for checking out my blog!  The reason why you’re here may be because you’re a personal friend and have received an email invitation to visit my new blog.  Or, you may have found out about my blog from one of the postings I made at one of the skin care / beauty forums I frequent.  Either way, welcome to my blog!

I’m starting this blog mainly to solicit some help on selecting a decent anti aging facial cream for myself, and secondly to document my findings in the hopes that other people may also find them useful.  So…why would I start looking for an anti aging face cream all of a sudden?

I’m by no means a vain person (you’d know if you were one of my personal friends) but the other day when I went shopping with a friend (Cat/Cathy for those of you who know her) the woman at the cosmetics counter asked if I was Cat’s mother.  (Poor me isn’t even 50 yet and Cat’s only 7 years younger than me!)  Needless to say there was quite a bit of embarrassment and profuse apologies from the woman at the counter, and I acted like it was no big deal to make the poor woman feel better.  While we were having lunch later at a nearby restaurant, I couldn’t help but sneak secret peeks at my reflection on the mirror behind Cat and compare my face to Cat’s.  I really couldn’t blame the woman – I did look significantly older than Cat did, with forehead wrinkles, lines around and under my eyes, deep “laugh” lines (ironically this is no laughing matter), and more lines around my mouth.

Managing my own business while bringing up both kids at the same time must have taken its toll on me over the years.  Thinking about this made me a little sad, but then I decided to take some action to make myself look younger, now that I have the time and money to spend on myself (both my “kids” have grown up and moved out).  I wanted to try anti aging facial creams to see if they would work or not, because I wanted something simple that didn’t involve needles or surgery.  The question was which specific facial cream to buy first.  I always like to do plenty of research online before buying a product, so that’s what I’ll be doing for the next while.

I’ll be updating this blog to report my findings.  In the meantime, if you have any suggestions please don’t hesitate to help me out by leaving a comment below.  Thanks!