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Younger Looking Skin - Secret of Antioxidants

By Lauren Hobbes
Jan 20, 2009
One of the best ways to get younger looking skin is to use antioxidants. Not only are antioxidants good to eat because they are healthy for your body, but applying effective antioxidant ingredients to your skin can also help to prevent aging and even reverse some of the visible effects of aging to help restore your complexion. For example, good products can help remove age spots, reduce wrinkles, and smooth out uneven skin tone, while also firming and tightening skin.

The process of skin aging happens when skin cells are damaged and break down. While it is a natural part of aging, you can take action to prevent premature wrinkling, and even turn back time to rejuvenate skin to some degree. Collagen and elastin and two important skin proteins responsible for a healthy complexion, and when they are lacking, the appearance of more wrinkles and sagging can begin. As we age, our bodies product less collagen and elastin naturally, and free radicals cause additional cellular breakdown. Antioxidants basically work by destroying free radicals and thus preventing them from damaging our cells.

One of your primary goals, besides eating more antioxidants, is to make sure you are using a good quality product that contains ingredients that will help your skin generate its own new collagen and elastin, naturally. Antioxidants will also help to prevent any further damage and allow your skin to be healthy.

Thanks to new scientific research, several such ingredients have been found and in clinical studies have actually resulted in proven results for better skin. There are several wonderful products on the market, but not all of them are as effective as advertised. Even worse, many popular lines contain chemicals and other ingredients that aren't even good for you. I prefer looking for natural substances that work without any harmful side effects. We ingest enough unknown toxins into our bodies as it is, and applying product chemicals directly to your skin means it gets absorbed right into your body.

The two best ingredients to look for in a natural moisturizer are Cynergy TK and Phytessence Wakame. Cynergy TK is a natural form of usable keratin, and it is chock full of helpful antioxidants that battle the free radicals that contribute to cellular breakdown and aging skin. It comes from New Zealand, so you may not have heard as much about it yet, but don't be fooled. Just because a product is heavily advertised does not mean it is the best. I expect that the popularity of this ingredient will take off once more people learn about it.

Phytessence Wakame is a type of Japanese sea kelp that is shown to have amazing healing skin care properties, such as preventing wrinkles, smoothing the complexion, and helping to firm and tighten the skintone.

Personally, when looking for antioxidant creams, I look for natural, proven ingredients that have been clinically proven, with real documented results, to reverse the signs of aging, and give me younger looking skin.
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