You shouldn't have to be great at chemistry to understand why your skin is aging prematurely. Unbalanced cells? Mitochondria? Free radicals? You just want young-looking skin! Lots of companies toss scientific words around to try to convince you to buy their products, which are usually assortments of chemicals which could possibly irritate your skin. Since it is difficult to understand what is really going on with your face, you take their word for it and try their products. Actually, you've probably tried everything from orange juice to cereal, that supposedly has antioxidants, to try to reverse the signs of aging.

Here's what's going on with your face, in plain English. When your skin starts to look 'aged', it's usually due to a combination of factors. Contamination in our environment, aggravated by things like cigarette smoke and damage from the sun and wind, are big culprits. Besides this, the other reason your skin ages is because after years of using oxygen, some of the atoms in your body start to lose their electrons, damaging them and making them unstable. The name for these problematic cells is '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 snowball effect of premature aging problems in our skin, because as free radicals take electrons from other cells, they leave those cells with fewer electrons also!

As you can imagine, our bodies do have some natural defenses against these destruction-causing cells. There are enzymes in the body which try to fix these free radicals. But, according to scientific studies, the best way to get rid of these cells is by special chemicals called 'antioxidants', which are mostly found in our diet and through external supplements. For a long time, most people haven't known too much about antioxidants, other than hearing the name. However, the scientific community has started to reveal some of the mysteries surrounding this topic, and the media has begun to dispel this information publicly. Athletes have a keen interest because of health concerns and the prospect of enhanced performance and/or recovery from exercise.

Natural Ingredient helps Win the Fight against Premature Aging

Antioxidants are effective because they are stable atoms with an extra electron, which they give to the free radicals. The advantage to this is that the free radicals don't die off, rather, they become normal, healthy cells again. The antioxidants then protect 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 face looking young and healthy than to give it these antioxidants that it is very much in need of? There are various 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 great sources. If you add these things to your diet, it will do wonders for your skin. However, we still have the other problem we talked about, which is the damaging effects of the sun on your skin. And if that wasn't bad enough, the ozone layer is shrinking, which means the future holds ever greater danger to our skin.

Conscious of the benefits of these antioxidants, scientists have recently started to create natural products using antioxidants 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-teaches' your damaged and abused skin cells how to behave like regular, healthy skin again! This has been such an exciting breakthrough for the medical and scientific communities. So, to summarize, if your skin is aging prematurely, all is not lost. Remember the secrets to keep your skin soft, young and rejuvenated: eat lots of vitamins, drink green tea, and try using skin care products full of antioxidants 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!