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Cost: $90 for 1.7 ounces
Why: If you're skin-care-obsessed like us, you've probably heard of a little thing called telomeres. If not: Telomeres are the caps at the end of our chromosomes that protect them from unraveling -- like the plastic cap at the end of a shoelace. Each time cells divide, telomeres shorten. Once they get too short, our cells stop being able to divide and may even die. In layman's terms? "It's the aging process," says cardiologist Adam Splaver. The rate at which your telomeres shorten predict how quickly you'll age -- a.k.a. fine lines, wrinkles, sagging skin, you get the picture.
The Age Arrest line is based on Nobel Prize-winning telomere research that found that a certain enzyme, named telomerase, assists in preserving those DNA end-caps. In other words: with telomerase, your cells can continue to go about their business of dividing and remaining healthy, keeping your skin from degrading and growing old.
This cream boasts "Telo-5," which, while rather ambiguous-sounding, is a lab-created version of telomerase. Does it work? An independent clinical study suggests it does. In the study, 90 percent of women showed significant improvement in firmness and elasticity and 93 percent showed improvement in discoloration, skin tone, hydration and crow's feet and fine lines after just four to six weeks.
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