Yet not one of those many body creams can be an effective cream, if it does no more than serve as an added layer of chemicals over the skin. An effective body cream does create a moisturizing layer on the skin, but that layer changes over time. An effective cream should be absorbed slowly by the skin. In that way, the cream can gradually add sufficient moisture to the underlying layers of skin.

When a consumer is studying the information on body lotion and creams, that individual might wish that he or she could know whether or not that skin care product gives-off a pleasant odor. Still, the fragrance coming from these creams offers almost no information about the effectiveness of even the most fragrant skin care product.

Granted, some body creams do provide the user of a particular cream to breathe-in a delightful citrus fragrance. Some creams allow the user of the cream to feel wonderfully refreshed, as though he or she had bathed in orange or lemon-scented water. The user of the cream feels healthier, but has that product really given the cream user's skin a greater level of health?

Suppose that someone actually waded into a tub of scented water. How long would that water remain on the skin, once the wader had emerged from that water? Would the moisture from that water be absorbed by the skin? Would the skin benefit from exposure to that scented water?

The wise consumer does not judge skin care products by their odor. The wise individual thinks twice before purchasing a product that includes within its online information this strange claim: "...you'll see how it fragrances your skin with the delightfully sweet and tangy scent of freshly cut pink grapefruit."

The consumer should seek an answer to this question: "Will this product moisturize my skin?" The consumer should want to find an answer to this question: "Will this product help to soften my skin?" The consumer should know how to search on each product label for chemicals that have a demonstrated ability to treat dry skin.

The website for some body creams gives visitors to that website a chance to review any of the listed creams. Testimonials provide Internet viewers with useful information. Such information offers details on more than just the names of the chemicals in any selected body lotion or cream. Such information indicates the ability of a particular product to protect and heal the skin.

The skin can heal faster when it has the ability to make added amounts of two proteins-collagen and elastin. Effective body creams should encourage the production of those two proteins. Collagen makes the skin firmer. Elastin confers the skin with a greater amount of flexibility. Consider how those facts relate to care for aging skin.

When skin starts to sag, then wrinkles form on the skin. In the absence of elastin, skin that has an added amount of collagen fails to return to its original position on the body's surface. The wise consumer does not purchase a skin care product that can only fill-in the lines and wrinkles on the skin.

The wise consumer searches for a body lotion and creams that can stimulate both collagen and elastin production. Such a product helps to restore youthfulness to the skin. It creates a glowing skin, the sort of skin that one enjoys seeing, when looking in a mirror.