Green Tea - Radiant Skin With This Miracle Skin Tea

Green Tea holds so many properties that can improve the health of your skin. The main antioxidant found in this skin tea that can enhance your skins appearance and overall health is EGCG, Epigallocatechin Gallate in scientific terms. Keep reading to learn some excitedly interesting facts about how Green Tea can improve your skins energy and vitality!

A two year study that was undertaken by Stanford University revealed recently showed the following - A group of volunteer Green Tea consumers were monitored and many exhilarating facts were released. The wonderful antioxidants in this skin tea, mostly EGCG, proved enhanced health of the skin in general. The essentials being, smoother skin and reduced pore size. Age spots (skin damage) emergence was lowered considerably. Appearance of the red vein look was lowered on the skins exterior.

Your skins life cycle is that of just 28 days, when new cells are formed from stem cells, it takes them about 20 days to reach the very exterior layer of the skin (epidermis). When they reach the surface they are then ready to die off. However it emerged that EGCG reacted with these dying cells and they began separating and renewing themselves again. So if dying skin cells can be re-energised, then the skin in turn will recover in condition and will naturally look and feel transformed.

A further study carried out by Harvard Medical School confirmed that "in test tubes, catechins (antioxidants) are more powerful that Vitamin C and E in delaying oxidative damage to cell". In reality, EGCG catechins are 100 times more valuable than Vitamin C and 25 more efficient than Vitamin E.

UV radiation is a massive hindrance for the skins ageing. Once UV rays hit the skin, free radicals are then stimulated. These free radicals are electrons that are in an unpaired state. Due to this state, they will then search for electrons that they will be able to pair up with.In doing this they are capable of attaching to healthy electrons, and because they are unhealthy themselves they harm the healthy electron they have become attached to.

With reference to the skin's aging, the skins healthy cells are damaged and extinguished by these Free Radicals. This causes the skins cells to either become so damaged that they cannot divide and deliver new cells, or they are destroyed completely before their life term should end. This is how sun damage has the effect it has and why your skin can look older and more ragged than it should. The excellent news is that EGCG eliminates the free radical electrons, it does not permit them in attaching to healthy cells. Thus, it can prevent sun damage.

However, it does not mean it is safe for you to lay under the sun for as long as you please and think that a cup of Green Tea will save your skin, however it does mean that for those rays that get through your sun cream, most of them will be extinguished before they can do any damage. So you can see how Green Tea can coincide with your sun protective routine and assist your skin in looking as youthful and healthy as it should do. Considering that 90% of ALL skins anti aging is due to UV radiation, I would be quite excited as regards introducing Green Tea into my diet, in favor of that and the many other reasons as above.