Antioxidant Skin Care....Your Key To Youthfulness!

Do you want youthful looking skin?

Antioxidant skin care is essential to preserving your youthful looks and reducing the ageing of skin and possibly even reverse some of the damage.

Just take a look at someone who has either smoked a lot of their lives or lived outdoors for a lot of the time.

What do you see? Yes weathered or wrinkled skin. Smoking is a major generator of free radicals throughout the body, hence it's many links to different types of cancer. It's most visible effects, however are on the skin.

Exposure to sunlight (ultraviolet rays) also generates large numbers of free radicals in the skin.

Want proof? Try the 'skin pinch' test...I tried it on myself and it's quite worrying!

First a quick personal experience. I was a sun worshipper in my earlier years, as far as I am concerned I am a ticking time bomb for skin cancer.

I lost count how many times I burnt my body, painfully recalling a particular bad sunburning experience years ago in Portugal, having to 'peel' off a pillow in the morning that had stuck to my back overnight due to massive blistering.

I was totally ignorant to the damaging effects of over-exposure to UV rays then (over 25 years ago). I am convinced the only reason I haven't contracted melanoma and been 'spared' is all due to the antioxidant skin care program that I stick to.

Ok, skin test time.

Pinch a piece of skin on your hand, then let go. Count how long it takes to spring back to it's place.

Now do the test on a piece of skin that has had less exposure to the sun.

Notice the difference?

You see the skin is the same age all over your body of course, but it has aged more where it has been exposed more to sunlight. Try this test with people of varying ages for more proof.

Antioxidant creams or lotions are a very good way to help your skin. Also take antiodant supplements to help as well. Antioxidants are absorbed and retained by the skin.

Vitamins E, C and beta-carotene reduce free radical damage to the skin.

Other beneficial antioxidants for your skin include flavonoids, particularly Pycnogenol.

Skincare Ebook

• How and Why Skin Ages
• Know Your Own Skin Type
• How To Protect Your Skin
• How Free Radicals Damage Skin Cells
• Good Nutrition and Your Complexion
• Skincare From The Inside Out

Eat Yourself Beautiful! Want a cheap and easy way to great looking skin? Forget a face peel. If you want wrinkle-free skin.... try an apple. A study published in the Journal of Biotechnology has shown that apple peel is packed with polyphenols, powerful antioxidants which keep the skin pumped full of oxygen and keep wrinkles at bay. One a day also boosts your immune system, erasing the skin cell damage caused by stress. So you can see how important antioxidant skin care is.

Antioxidants And Sunburn

They will help to restore the antioxidant balance on the skin and should reduce inflammation along with a quicker healing process.

Bottom line...taking antioxidants internally and applying antioxidant skin care lotion or creams, can give you inside-out protection against sunburn.

The usual word of warning however, it's no excuse to sit out in the sun for long periods. Excessive exposure to sunlight will cause skin cancer so..you have been warned.