How Free Radicals from Heavy Pollution, Auto Exhaust and Sun Exposure Make You Look Older
Free radicals are a key factor in wrinkles and sagging skin. Free radicals make great skin care more challenging today than ever before. HEAVY POLLUTION and CAR EXHAUST surround you everywhere - and they are major sources of free radicals that eat away at the youthfulness of your skin!
What gives skin its youthful resiliency? Well, skin is full of tons of little fiber bundles between the cells that bond and strengthen it. It’s these fibers that need the collagen and elastin we hear so much about.
When we’re young, these fibers are potent. But with time, exposure to free radicals through environment and diet begin to attack these fibers or “connective tissue” and the DNA of our very cells.
Free radicals break down those fibers. Skin elasticity and suppleness then fade, and that’s how the skin begins to sag and wrinkle. The proverbial “age or liver spots” are a familiar sign of the activity of free radicals.
Only natural antioxidants halt this “domino effect” in its tracks and stop the ravaging. So keep your skin well supplied with a vast pool of anti-oxidants every day.
Vitamin C: Nature’s Essential Nutrient for Your Skin Cells to Build Collagen and Elastin
Clinical research proves that Vitamin C:
Is essential for the creation of collagen (the skin’s structural fiber “net”).
Repairs the skin.
Helps correct sun damage.
Establishes new collagen growth to inspire fullness and firmness to the skin.
Reduces the appearance of fine lines.
Improves uneven skin tone and clarity.
Is a potent antioxidant that speeds up cellular renewal.
Reduces wrinkles and improves skin texture, if you already have wrinkles.
HOWEVER - two important criteria must be met! Unless there are high enough levels of Vitamin C available in a lotion, very little effect will occur. AND, the Vitamin C must be in a stable form so it doesn’t oxide and lose all usefulness to the skin.
Trade Irritating Retin-A for Soothing Pro-Vitamin A.
Since Vitamin A is more difficult for the skin to use, Retin-A and Renova were created. Their anti-aging effects are well documented, BUT they can have side effects like skin irritation, dryness, peeling and sun sensitivity. Especially if overused.
Pro-Vitamin A, and beta carotene are precursors to A that the skin can readily embrace. All of the benefits, none of the harm. Designed by nature.
Vitamin A: improves the texture and tone of skin, and very important - enhances youthful skin elasticity.
Vitamin E: Nature’s Most Potent Anti-Oxidant Protection against Aging from Free Radical Damage!
The word that most comes to mind for Vitamin E is - ANTIOXIDANT. A strong antioxidant action with lots of skin loving benefits. It’s known for healing scars without a trace, helping with psoriasis, preventing premature aging and even reducing the risk of skin cancer.
How does it work so well? Vitamin E’s unique design by nature allows it to stabilize free radicals. It does this by supplying an extra electron and bringing balance - neutralizing the damaging effects of a free radical on the search for balance by ravaging your skin!
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