Anti-aging: the secret antioxidants

A beautiful basket of antioxidants for the skin!

In radius cosmetic, anti-aging solutions abound!

Yet many of us know that THE product that will completely erase our wrinkles does not exist.

I recalled you often: a deep wrinkle is a break of the dermis. Irreparable unless preventively (with the essential oil immortal particular or argan oil). A wrinkle of expression is due to our faces or ptosis caused by gravity on the skin becomes less elastic ... The real solution is and remains the Facial Fitness (click if you're new)

But in care, what to do against age and wrinkles? A trend seems to be called: prevention rather than cure, using the famous "antioxidants" that Mother Nature offers us ...

In this article, I offer a brief overview of my darlings antioxidants ... and I offer a sip of vitamins video, after my columns in The Daily France 5 ...

What is an antioxidant?

An agent is called "antioxidant" if it is able to fight against the free radicals that harm the balance of our cells, causing their degeneration.

An image to include: a cut apple, left in the open air, oxidizes and crumples. Coated with lemon juice, it oxidizes more slowly.Lemon here is comparable to an antioxidant that inhibits the action of oxygen and UV.

Some foods and cosmetic ingredients are real weapons against aging.

The best known antioxidants are vitamins (C, E, and carotenoids ...). They are particularly active if consumed in its natural state (such as citrus or fresh spinach for vitamin C, wheat germ and eggs for vitamin E). But there are no vitamins! Polyphenols occur naturally in certain plants are also powerful antioxidants. This is the case for example phénolées substances cloves, or resveratrol in red grapes and mulberries (the "superfruits" that can now be found in health food shops and on the net).

The list is long: theobromine cocoa, curcumin from turmeric, green tea flavonoids or strawberry, compounds of bilberry, goji berries, etc.

Regularly consume these plants is of benefit to the skin. My tip: a small handful of mulberries day as a snack (see the video above) + a "fresh" food truffled spinach and / or season citrus + red fruit at will.

Antioxidants benefit for beauty

The greatest expected benefits of antioxidants are therefore in the plate. Let it be said, cosmetics "antioxidants" are actually a figment of the imagination.

However, one can resort to cosmetic formulas particularly rich in antioxidants if you think that the skin is subjected to regular attacks (smoking, UV, outdoor sports).

Stress is also a major factor oxidation, which should encourage us to strive more to let go as much as to enhance our beauty ritual with antioxidants.

A protocol of antioxidant-rich daily care can look like this:

• After cleansing the face, we pass on the face a little hydrolate sage, known slow oxidation. Slow Cosmetics brands Biofloreand ESSENCIAGUA to offer bio. One can also opt for a green tea infusion of cooled, which keeps up to 6 days in dark place.
• Face is massaged with a small amount of Nigella vegetable oil bio-rich thymoquinone, antioxidant and anti-inflammatory known. For a more personalized serum antioxidant and again, we can flavor the oil. To 10ml Nigella, count 2 drops of essential oil of myrrh, frankincense 2 and 1 lemon zest. These species are known antioxidant. This gives an excellent preventive serum. 
  For your nigella, you find in Bioflore,   SAINT HILAIRE, Slow Cosmetics brands only. In the same spirit, I participated in its time to the composition of care "Pranalixir Firm" of PRANARÔM , a powerful anti-aging serum, skillfully flavored with essence of lemon and clove and yet not aggressive. For these gentlemen, Marisson human serum (3-star, Slow Cosmetics !! Mention) is ideal because bursting of the assets of the vine and floral water of cassis.
  
• After oil massage, we finally apply a moisturizer suited to your skin type whose formula is heavily loaded with antioxidants.Attention same radius bio it is difficult to find a formula to extract the supposed fight oxidation is present in the top ten ingredients. Hence the interest to precede the cream by a massage or a nigella avant.J'ai house composition spotted Réaprotect cream REALIA (3 stars Slow Cosmetics !! Mention), a treatment that combines olive and rosemary antioxidant cocktail very kind. Always in the Slow Cosmetics brands, it is also the Esteva cream of IMWE brand that is interesting because it combines borage oil (valuable), pomegranate (a classic antioxidants) and a white radish extract.