Soft & beautiful skin, just plain beautiful natural skin - those are the goals of almost anyone looking for good skin care products. Here are the most effective ingredients available for beautiful natural skin.

The first thing to know is, nearly everybody is born with skin exactly like that. Touch a baby or any child in their early years and feel that soft, beautiful natural skin. What is is that makes it soft? (And so strong? No sagging here!)

Well, the child hasn't had many years to neglect that beautiful skin, and you have. That's a big difference. Another one is that, without careful nutrition, aging skin loses the most important ingredients that make skin soft and beautiful by nature. There are three big problems that cause skin aging, and every one of them can be reversed, so don't give up. Here they are.

1. Loss of collagen and elastin, the vital skin proteins

2. Loss of hyaluronic acid, the "glue" that holds these proteins in the natural skin matrix

3. Oxidation of healthy skin issue through the action of free radicals

That's it. Stop those Big Three and you're well on your way to beautiful natural skin again. I'll name the most effective ingredients, proven in clinical trials, to turn around these problems.

1. Cynergy TK rebuilds collagen and elastin. It contains keratin, the protein found throughout the body, but especially in the skin, hair and nails. The recent breakthrough here is "Functional Keratin," a bio-active form that is readily available to the skin for both building new tissue and repairing damaged skin.

Cynergy TK reduces inflammation in the skin, stimulates the skin to produce more of its own collagen and elastin, and in a representative study, showed a sustained 14 percent improvement in skin moisture retention and a sustained improvement in skin elasticity of 42 perccent -- both in just 18 days.

2. Phytessence Wakame, an extract of natural sea kelp, blocks the destructive enzyme that breaks down hyaluronic acid in the skin. Block the enzyme, and hyaluronic acid builds back up the level you had when you were much younger.

3. Nano-Lipobelle H-EQ10 is the famous, powerful antioxidant Coenzyme Q10 in a unique form, microscopic particles that are absorbed down through seven layers of the skin. Working with Natural Vitamin E, it is easily one of the most effective antioxidants known, protecting your skin from the damage caused by stress and environmental pollutants.

So those are the big three. But it takes a careful combination of ingredients to give you back your soft & beautiful skin. Check my website for more details.

Kathryn Lane is a longtime health and nutrition researcher. The best skincare products she finds have never been the most expensive or the most heavily advertised. Check out her website: http://www.health-and-skin-site.com/