one of the best things you can easily do to improve or even entirely rid yourself of this problem is CUT DOWN ON SALT. “If you have puffy bags under your eyes in the morning, you are almost certainly consuming much more salt than you need

The best serum I use is the Made from Earth Vitamin Enhanced Face Firming Serum. It is the most cost effective DMAE source I have found and has worked to make my puffy eyes not puffy!! Also it contains a 3% DMAE concentration – I have used it for about 7 months now, and have now stopped because I have seen a significant improvement in the wrinkles around my eyes. Now I just dab some noe maybe once a week. Well worth it – http://www.madefromearth.com/

What does it mean “I wanted to start with something simple” ? Hopefully that there will be many more.

Your wife shouldn’t beat on you, it sounds like she got a good guy. Wrinkled, hard, and aged … say it ain’t so … is an excuse to reiterate one of my many soapbox themes, that the people that matter to us REALLY don’t need (or want) us to change ourselves to please strangers we’ve never met. We are all already perfect.

I’m glad the face cream and your wife are a combination that works so well. Maybe her beauty and confidence are also in part due to the support and love she’s getting from the one whose opinion matters most. How we see people is reflected in our own faces. If we (choose to) see strength and support, our face reflects it like a mirror. And strength and support is what we get back.

It works in reverse too. If we (begin by choosing to) see weakness or laziness, that’s what will come back.

But you obviously know this already. We need more comments from men like you here. So, how do you feel about color?

Point taken.

She looks beautiful and as young as when we first met (Yes, she’s looking over my shoulder as I write this. Ow!)

But seriously, she is well on her way to 50 and (Ow!) looks fantastic. Her face is soft and nearly wrinkle-free, and many women underestimate her age which, of course, she loves.

Whatever materials are contained in it, she has obviously benefitted. But even if she hadn’t been using it, and became wrinkled (Ow!) and hard (Umf!) and aged in appearance (Yow!), I would still love her (Awww!).

Mark Shekens
California
(Still happily married)

A day will come when those of us whose time is most valuable will NOT carry a cell phone.

A day will come too, I hope, that the fearless and smartest among us will have faces that have not known needles or knives.

Good story about LaMer. I’ve got a few of those myself, but a lot less often since I re-acquainted myself with the work of Paula and her group. I sometimes wonder if the men and women (:)) in cosmetics marketing ever have trouble living with their consciences, which must be like the elephant in the room when they meet clients. I’ve worked in places where I’ve felt rather poorly at the end of the day, and places where I use my knowledge, experience, and skills to always and only sell people what they need. It sure feels different.

I am a huge Paula fan! I love the Skin Recovery Moisturizer and the Skin Recovery Super Antioxidant Concentrate. All of my skin care is Paula’s Choice. I’ve tried other products, but they end up under counter and partially used and I always go back to Paula.

I don’t like the fragrances or prices that come with a lot of products (LaMer, comes to mind, possibly one of the dumbest, most expensive products I have ever bought. The smell reminded me of my grandmother’s cold cream and it didn’t work any better than most moisturizers I’ve tried over the years). But I bought it anyway, falling completely for the hype.

Keep up the no nonsense approach to skin care. Here’s to not only growing older, but smarter too!

DMAE is the abbreviation for the compound identified as 2-dimethyl-amino-ethanol. Unless university chemistry has changed the rules, that is a chemical. In fact, what substance is NOT a chemical, whether in a skin cream or anywhere else?

Maybe because I’m a product of North American medical training, I’m very big on research if it’s going in or on MY body. The research surrounding DMAE is controversial, to say the least. Now, you can find controversial data for every food, cream, vaccine, drug, or any other chemical. But I’ve not seen any evidence to convince me that DMAE is synonymous with harmless or with firming.

Having said all that, I’m always happy to hear it when someone has spent money on a beauty product and it did what it promised to do.

Plus you want a face cream that has no chemicals, because chemicals will break down the skins elastic which groups together skin molecules – which causes wrinkles!

I recommend the Made from Earth vitamin enhanced face firming serum – this is what I have been using for the last 6 months. It works great for me, and I see results. I have noticed my face alot tighter, especially under my eyes. The Made from Earth Vitamin Face Firming Serum must have alot of DMAE in it because right after I apply it to my skin, I feel it tightening already. I have also used the 3 Berry Face Serum at night which has a super moisturizing effect
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Highly recommended for healthy women who want a healthy way to remove wrinkles.