Every year, collectively, we spend almost $50 billion on anti-aging products – and to what end? Our faces still sag and wrinkle; our bones still ache and crack; Death still edges ever closer over the horizon. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

Well, we can’t do much about the latter two ( yet ) – but a new face cream formulation containing the antioxidant pterostilbene does claim to clean up the former.

“Our results indicated that the pterostilbene emulsion remarkably improved skin elasticity, firmness, and reduced wrinkles, such as forehead, undereye, and crow's feet wrinkles,” reported Zhiyuan Chen, founder of Guangzhou Luanying Cosmetics Co, which funded the project.

“It also increased the thickness of the epide

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