A novel skin care product making some powerful claims has recently been made available to the cosmetic market. South Beach Skincare retails LifeCell Skin Cream, and has had trouble meeting demand for this product, despite its premium price. In this LifeCell review, we'll focus on the anti-wrinkle promises.

LifeCell Skin Cream is a novel cosmetic product sold by South Beach SkinCare. They are making some very powerful claims about this expensive new entrant into a highly competitive market, but the public seems to be sold, literally, as the company has had trouble meeting demand. We'll focus on the anti-wrinkle promises of this skin cream in Part 1 of our LifeCell Review.

Among its claims, LifeCell Skin Cream has announced it can address wrinkles by:

* Rendering wrinkles instantly invisible

* Superseding the need for botox injections

* needless production of collagen

* Plumping lips

Can a skin cream, even an expensive one, really help you say good-bye to unsightly lines and wrinkles?

Believe it or not, the human eye is unable to see the actual wrinkle. What the eye sees is in truth the shadow caused by the wrinkle. LifeCell Skin Cream counters this with billions of three-dimensional nanoprisms called "fractionated silicon dioxide". Since all those billions of minute 3D nanoprisms refract light, shadows can indeed be greatly reduced. The silicon dioxide is invisible, but it adheres to the face until removed by washing. We do note that the effect works for shallow lines and wrinkles only.

For additional significant decline in the appearance of wrinkles, LifeCell Skin Cream relies on Acetyl Hexapeptide-3 (AH3) to do the job, and its job is to work as a natural botox, without the needle. AH3 is indeed an active isolate that goes to work nearly instantly when applied to the skin, and is supposed to operate by relaxing facial muscles. Botox does something similar, but in a much more invasive fashion. Botox is in reality a toxin that is injected, resulting in paralysis of facial muscles. The effect does diminish the appearance of wrinkles, but is temporary and injections will have to be repeated as required to keep the look. According to researchers, anecdotal data suggests that AH3 has a similar mechanism of action as Botox; however, the AH3 in LifeCell Skin Cream does not involve toxins, paralysis, or side effects caused by leaked serum, all of which are connected with botox injections.

Collagen is produced by the body, but declining production in later years gives rise to lines, wrinkles, and unsightly "crow's feet". The makers of LifeCell Skin Cream have designed the product to help stimulate natural production of collagen. Wrinkles appear pushed up and out as though plumped from within, allowing those wrinkles to look smoothened out and lifted away.

This also means that lips will be visibly fuller; fine lines around the mouth appear smoothened and lip "bleed" is stopped. Again, some women resort to injections to increase the collagen in the lips to get that "pouty", provocative appearance. With additional production of natural collagen, these exorbitant injections become needless.

Our LifeCell Review does find foundation for the skin cream's anti-wrinkle claims. LifeCell Skin Cream makes many more promises as well, which we will scrutinize in subsequent critiques.