In the fight against skin aging there are many ingredients that we can use but, without a doubt, botulinum toxin is one of the most effective treatments that we can find but, as we all know, it must be injected and not all are willing to it.
For this reason, according to a study published in 2018, there are other ingredients such as argireline which has effects very similar to the famous Botox as it relaxes and improves wrinkles on the forehead and around the eyes but without being so invasive.
But, specifically, we can ask ourselves what is argireline and what is it used for? Well, in the words of Virtudes Ruíz, a surgeon and aesthetic doctor, it is a hexapeptide (what we call peptides) designed to imitate the effect of botulinum toxin at the skin level and in cosmetic form. And it serves, as we have indicated, to relax and improve wrinkles on the forehead and around the eyes.
Therefore, as the expert points out, her mission is perform a ‘similar’ action to botulinum toxin, reducing, at the skin level, the fusion of the vesicles loaded with neurotransmitters with the neuronal membrane, in order to relax the skin.
All this makes us assimilate it to botox because without being a neurotoxin, It imitates its mechanism of action, although at the level of the skin, to relax it, since it is a cosmetic component and is not injected. While, the botulinum toxin acts at the muscle level, where it is injected directly and has to be done by a doctor.
In fact, as the doctor points out, it is very effective because it can help the effects of the injected botulinum toxin last a little longer or be more effective. In addition, it acts for approximately 6 hours after its topical application and can be reapplied without any problem in the form of a touch-up in the areas that we want, since we are dealing with a cosmetic.
For those who are thinking about it, no, it does not have contraindications as such, but it is recommended not to combine it with other peptides or vitamin C on very sensitive skin, to avoid irritation.
Now, you will wonder what products contain this jewel that is giving us long teeth. Well, here are a couple of alternatives.
First the AXT Care XL Lifting by Virtue Estética an Anti-wrinkle cream with Arginerine with a smoothing and anti-wrinkle effect that can be seen from its first application. Its price is 45 euros.
on the mark Ami Iyok We also find this ingredient as in Dryskin-Oasis (91 euros) which is a day cream for dry skin designed to restore the elasticity lost over time and protect the skin from external aggressions that it has to face during the day that , in addition to a good handful of very interesting ingredients, it incorporates ingredients of the highest cosmetic technology such as Tens’Up, a vegetable tensor with a lifting effect and the innovative Argireline.
Or, why not, the Insta Wrinkle by Sepai which is one of the 4 precision pens of the brand that just press the product on the most marked wrinkles to experience an authentic ‘ironing effect’ that redensifies the skin thanks to Argireline. Its price is 29 euros.
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