We always say that an optimal skin care is never due to a single miraculous ingredient. Instead, it involves using a large number of beneficial ingredients that give the skin what it needs, to maintain a younger and healthier appearance. One of the wonderful categories of ingredients for the skin we want to talk about are antioxidants.
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What are antioxidants?
Antioxidants are ingredients that intercept the problems that cause environmental damage and through a complex process, minimize their impact on the skin. Antioxidants are not scarce: most of them occur in fruits and vegetables, and others are created in the laboratory. Both types offer many benefits for all skin types and all ages, it's never too early to start using them!
To delve into the subject, one should know that skin care products often contain plant extracts rich in antioxidants. These can be extracted or obtained from the leaves, stem or root of the plant and added to the product, making it more powerful. The list of exceptionally beneficial antioxidants that we use in ICG is very long, but we can name some such as vitamins A, C and E; Green Tea or Soybean extract; Extract of Pomegranate, Turmeric or Grape; etc. We also use concentrated antioxidants with names that are not so easy to understand (but are excellent for skin care): some examples are superoxide dismutase, resveratrol, epigallocatecin-3-gallate and astaxanthin.
Antioxidants: anti-aging heroes!
To understand how antioxidants work and help your skin, it is important to know that one of the biggest problems that photo-aging causes is sun exposure in an urban environment. This uncontrollable daily assault for us damages the skin deeply, especially if we expose ourselves to them without sun protection. It is important to note that these negative consequences can also occur due to the use of products that contain abrasive or sensitizing ingredients.
In the short and long term, this impact leads to different signs of aging such as: flaccid skin, wrinkles, uneven skin tone or opaque, dryness, sensitivity, redness, and a multitude of difficult problems to treat. But if you do not do anything about it, the natural defenses of the skin will continue to be attacked. Antioxidants help your skin defend itself better from the relentless daily attack. In addition, stabilize fight against all environmental damage, so they do not cause havoc on your skin. They also have soothing and soothing qualities. They work in so many aspects in the care of your skin, which is really impressive what they can provide, just include them in your routine. Thousands of studies have clearly shown how antioxidants help to renew, restore, revitalize and rejuvenate the skin significantly.
It is never too late to start using antioxidants in your daily care routine. Not only will you begin to see visible improvements in your skin from its first use: in the long term the results will continue to impress you. Antioxidants will not only benefit you now, but they will do so for the rest of your life. Either a tonic, a serum, a specific treatment or a moisturizer; your products must be full of antioxidants.
When you go to buy a good product, you should look at its list of ingredients. Although it is as important to look for antioxidant ingredients in the list of ingredients as the container itself. Bad packaging means you will not get the most out of antioxidants!
Why is packaging important?
Despite their powerful abilities, antioxidants are delicate and should be packaged in containers that ensure they continue to be effective, or else your skin will not get the most benefit from them. Because of their way of working, antioxidants degrade when exposed to light and air. Thus, if a moisturizer, a serum or any other product rich in antioxidants is packaged in an open jar or in a transparent container, it will most likely lose its antioxidant benefit in a few weeks (or even days). How long it takes to degrade, depends on its formulation, but it will end up happening. Any skin care product with antioxidants should be in airtight containers or that prevent air from entering as much as possible, always avoiding contact with the fingers (putting your fingers inside the open jars, little by little contaminating the contents and eventually destroys the beneficial ingredients).