Use of cosmetics is old as vanity, someone says. Evidences are found that in Egypt their use can be traced back almost to the earliest period of which burials have been found, and continues to the present day. But today, driven by desire to look younger, we go further into so called "extreme cosmetics" for the treatment of the wrinkles.  Unfortunately extreme cosmetic treatments cannot bring back our youth or halt the ageing process. They nearly all require regular top-ups to maintain the effect. Wrinkles have a nasty habit of returning

Here are given new and old example of cosmetic formulation. It may be easily seen the difference of the complexity between two formulation.

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