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Have you ever put much thought into what type of packaging your skin care comes in?

Are you aware that certain types of ingredients in your products need to be protected from air (oxygen) and light?

Products that contain certain anti-aging ingredients can be greatly and very quickly compromised by the lack of proper packaging. Want to know the worst type of packaging for anti-aging ingredients? Jars, or bottles that do not have a pin hole squeeze top or pump. Manufacturers of skin care want to make money of course, so they put the products in packaging that will cost them the least giving themselves a nicer profit.

Unfortunately ingredients such as vitamins C and A, which are antioxidants, are very unstable when exposed to air and light. The same goes for enzymes such as COQ10. These ingredients lose stability and effectiveness in a matter of a couple weeks when packaged in jars or open mouth bottles. Every time you open that jar or bottle your wonderful anti-aging ingredients get a dose of air and light, and bacteria if dipping fingers into the product. What does that mean for your skin?

Nothing good! Anti-aging ingredients cost you a lot of money but degrade quickly in a jar or open mouth jar. These ingredients lose their potency in as little as two weeks! Now you have a product that no longer has the same level of efficacy and you are not receiving the intended benefits of those wrinkle defying ingredients. What you are left with is an expensive moisturizer, cleanser or serum with no anti-aging benefit. That isn’t anti-aging skin care, now is it?

So if you do want those wrinkle reducing, anti-aging ingredients, you want them to remain stable and efficient all the way down to the last tiny drop. Right?

Look for products that are packaged in tubes and pump bottles.

Your products will retain all the potency you need and paid for when packaged in tubes and pump bottles. No exposure to light and air. Or bacteria either! They will remain as fresh and effective as the day you bought them. This is an absolute fact.

If you are using a plain moisturizer that is not infused with wrinkle reducing, anti-aging ingredients, a jar is okay but still not a wise choice if you do not make sure that your hands are very clean when dipping into it. As I said above, you could be introducing bacteria into that jar.

And why would you use a plain moisturizer? Come on! Take advantage of the great stuff that can reduce wrinkles and fine lines. This is your face we are talking about.

Look around, you will find that skin care lines produced by companies that are backed by medical research are more often than not packaged in the manner that will preserve and protect the integrity and effectiveness of the active anti-aging ingredients. Mine is, is yours?