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If your bathroom medicine cabinet looks anything like mine, you probably have at least two shelves taken up with skin care products.  Then under the sink, or maybe in the linen closet in the hall you have another shelf with a bunch of half used products that you have purchased because of the latest skin care tips you’ve read in the beauty magazines.  I have products to exfoliate, products to moisturize, products to tighten, others to soften.  All of these are an attempt to have younger looking skin.  What’s even worse is when I try and go on vacation; I end up with a small suitcase just for all my skin care needs.

Well, Dr. Neal Schultz on DermTV help me to recognize that my attempts at skin care were unnecessary.  In episode #6 of his online skin care tips, “The Three Essential Daily Skincare Products” he talks about what we really need to get younger looking skin.  He has whittled my shopping cart of items down to three essentials for healthy, younger looking skin.

The first product Dr Schultz says is important is a skin exfoliate to remove the dead cells on the surface. This will maximize your chances for healthier looking skin.  Ok, I have one of those (actually, I have four, so I guess three of them can be discarded).   The next is sunscreen.  Hmmm, I wouldn’t have put this in my list of skin care products, but I guess it makes sense.  Sunscreen protects against aging, spots and even skin cancer.  Yea, that qualifies as care.The last one is a topical anti-oxidant. This product also helps to maintain younger looking skin through rejuvenation of the skin cells.He says that products with vitamin C are better for you.  I had to sort through more than half my collection to find any product that actually had the vitamin C ingredients Dr. Schultz recommends. 

 
After listening to his skin care tips, I felt rather embarrassed at how many extra creams, lotions and other unnecessary items I had for skin care.  Now, he didn’t say these other items were ineffective and, not willing to part with some of my personal favorites, I did keep some of the other products.  But I now know that, if I’m going on a quick weekend getaway and need to travel light that my makeup bag is going to be much easier to carry.