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No matter what skincare goals you’re trying to achieve, a face cream is always the most important tool in your arsenal. And if you’re trying to reduce the look of wrinkles, that face cream becomes even more important.
Face creams are essential to delivering hydration to your skin with energizing and nourishing ingredients. While other products like serums or eye masks are designed to target one area or concern specifically, a face cream is crucial for treating every part of your skin – making it even more important to pick a product with the right ingredients.
Many face creams are formulated with ingredients like collagen or peptides that can repair, replenish and rejuvenate, yet there are just as many products that use ingredients that aren’t that good for your skin.
In fact, there is one type of face cream that dermatologists recommend you steer clear from at all costs.
Any face cream made with alcohol is a face cream you're going to want to avoid. Even if it is marketed to repair skin or to have anti-aging benefits, a product made with alcohol can be extremely drying to your skin, thus making it less equipped to repair itself from damages and utlimately causing wrinkles and other signs of aging to worsen.
According to Dr. Paul Jarrod Frank, NYC-based celebrity cosmetic dermatologist and author of The Pro-Aging Playbook, told SheFinds, "Wrinkled skin needs rich hydration to plump the skin and reduce the appearance of wrinkles. Anything with alcohol dehydrates the skin and actually makes wrinkles look worse!"
His advice: never use a face cream made with alcohol.
You would be surprised at just how many face creams include alcohol. Even if it's just the smallest amount of cetearyl alcohol or another type of commonly-used skincare ingredient, we found it listed in the ingredients of face creams by popular brands including Eucerin, Cetaphil, E.l.f., Drunk Elephant and others.
But there is one face cream we can recommend without any alcohol listed in its ingredients: Honest Beauty's Hydrogel Cream.
Priced at $19.99, this face cream is made with a short ingredient list that includes nourishing ingredients like hyaluronic acid, squalane and jojoba esters. In a consumer study of 32 participants, 90% reported that their fine lines appeared to reduce. No wonder this cream has an average rating of 4.6 out of 5 stars!
