You shouldn't have to be an expert in chemistry to understand why your skin looks older and has more fine lines. Unbalanced cells? Mitochondria? Free radicals? You just want to free your skin from looking old and worn out! Lots of companies throw around fancy words to try to get you to buy their products, which are usually conglomerations of harsh chemicals. You don't really understand what's going on with your face, so you just blindly trust them and try their skin creams. Actually, you've probably tried everything from orange juice to cereal, that supposedly has antioxidants, hoping and trusting that it will reverse the signs of aging.

Let's try to explain the science behind this in terms that we all understand. When your skin starts to look 'aged', it's usually due to a combination of factors. Pollution in the environment, and damage from the sun's rays has a lot to do with it. Besides this, the other reason your skin ages is due to the fact that when your body uses oxygen, some of your atoms lose electrons and become 'unstable'. These damaged cells are called 'free radicals. Free radicals ,as you can imagine, are not good for the body, because they are essentially diseased cells, and even worse, they alter our DNA, resulting in more diseased and dead cells. Worst of all, in order to correct themselves, they try to take electrons from the natural proteins in our skin. This, as you can imagine, starts a chain reaction of skin problems and premature aging, because as free radicals take electrons from other cells, they leave those cells with fewer electrons also!

As you can imagine, our bodies are not helpless against these destructive cells. There are enzymes in the body which try to get rid of these free radicals. But, according to scientific studies, the quickest and easiest way to get rid of these cells is by special chemicals called 'antioxidants', which are for the most part found in our diet and through external supplements. Until very recently, there wasn't too much public information about antioxidants. However, the scientific community has started making public some of the the unbelievable news about this topic, and the media has begun to get in on the action and alert the general population. This is especially exciting for athletes, who could use antioxidants to enhance their performance.

Natural Ingredient has the Upper Hand on Premature Aging

Antioxidants are effective because they are stable atoms with an extra electron, which they give to the free radicals. Because of this, the free radicals are converted into normal, healthy cells, without being killed off. The antioxidants then safeguard the cells by neutralizing external forces (such as damage from the sun, pollution, etc) and internal factors (such as stress, emotions, metabolism, and the presence of excess oxygen). What better way to keep your skin looks great than to give it these antioxidants that it urgently needs? There are a variety of ways to get antioxidants. For example, a good idea would be to eat foods rich in vitamin C, and drink lots of green tea. Fruits and vegetables that have beta carotene (like carrots, peaches, spinach, etc), are also wondeful sources. It is recommended that you supplement your diet with these things to help keep your skin young and healthy. However, there is also the other problem we talked about, which is the damage that harmful UV rays do to your skin. To make matters worse, every day the ozone layer gets thinner, which means less and less protection for our skin.

Seeing the power of these antioxidants, scientists have recently started to create skin care products from natural ingredients that you can apply as a face cream, which will neutralize your free radicals and defend you from the penetrating rays of the sun. They even contain a special ingredient that 're-trains' your damaged and abused skin cells how to behave like regular, healthy skin again! This has been such an extraordinary breakthrough for the medical and scientific communities. So, to recap, if your skin is aging prematurely, all is not lost. Remember the keys to keep your skin soft, young and rejuvenated: eat lots of vitamins, drink green tea, and try incorporating creams that use natural ingredients to insure your body is getting all the help it needs to revive damaged cells. If you really make the effort to do this, you should start to notice a difference in your skin in the blink of an eye!