It seems that the basic desire to stay beautiful for as long as possible is bringing out a lot more brilliance from us than ever before. As a matter of fact, skin care technology seems to be keeping up with the times. Take the case of amino acid chains called peptides and one of its trademarked versions— the Matrixyl 3000.
A Primer on Peptides
In recent years, peptides have become a major player in the skin care industry and are being used in many anti aging products as one of the main active ingredients. It works by fooling the body into thinking that it needs to produce new collagen in the skin to maintain a certain health level. Collagen is one of the basic building blocks of the skin that gives it that youthful plumpness and elasticity. Unfortunately, it is very easy to destroy the skin’s collagen content through unhealthy lifestyle and is also naturally degraded with age.
Collagen is made up of long strings of amino acids but when it degrades or breaks down, it turns into shorter chains of amino acids called peptides. When the body finds these peptides in our skin, it copes by producing new collagen to ensure a certain level of skin health.
Anti aging products that contain these amino acid chains and their derivatives aim to manipulate the human body into thinking that it needs to produce new collagen cells. This, in effect, helps the skin by making it appear younger. More collagen means fewer wrinkles!
What is Matrixyl 3000?
Throughout the use of peptides in anti aging treatment, it has resulted in many developments and many versions. Matrixyl is simply the trademarked name given to Palmitoyl Pentapeptide or Palmitoyl Oligopeptide which is basically an nth generation of peptide variants.
Matrixyl 3000 is the name given to the combination of two peptide variants— Palmitoyl pentapeptide and Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide.
Actually, one of the great characteristics of peptides, as far as its uses to anti aging products development, is that each peptide can deal with different aspects of skin aging and you can combine them together to create in a synergistic formula that could deal with those different aspects at the same time.
In the case of Matrixyl 3000, palmitoyl pentapeptide is the component that is tasked to stimulate the skin into producing new collagen while palmitoyl tetrapeptide is tasked to deal with skin damage caused by glycation.
Matrixyl 3000 is an ingredient in products like Peter Roth Antiaging Cellular Repair, Hylexin, StriVectin SD, Avon Ageless Results.
The Revitol Anti Aging Kit which I reviewed (click link to read) contains only Matrixyl.
