You know what I was thinking?
I made this video a while ago discussing the benefits of Olay Regenerist — it’s this cream (or a series of various serums) that you apply to your skin to help your cells regenerate for more youthful looking skin.

Now, here’s my problem with that (two years too late, Lol).
Skin cells (or any cell in your body, really) have a certain “lifetime” before they expire. Or rather, every cell can only replicate a certain amount of times before it exhausts itself. Now, we age because the process of repair or growth in our body begins to slow. Our metabolisms, our cell replication etc — it all slows over time because of this lifetime that our cells have.

Messing with that replication process, especially at a young age (for example, me at 24 trying to boost my skin cell replication) — this does more damage than good to our skin. We are essentially speeding the process of aging of these cells, although momentarily increasing short-term “youth”.

This shit isn’t on the bottle, obviously. We all want this quick fix to youth and vitality.

So unless you’re f*cking fifty years old and can actually benefit from the serums because you’ve passed the benchmark for human life, then don’t subscribe to youth serums. Stick with regular moisturizers that help cultivate and support or add nutrients to your skin. Feed your skin with healthy things in your diet, and don’t rely on these fountain-of-youth serums. They may make you feel or look good in the short-term, but the long-term effects are more harmful than beneficial.