SKIN CELL HEALTH
We all know how important collagen is in achieving a firm, youthful complexion, we now can mix it in our morning drinks and snack on it in the form of a boosting bar for that mid-morning break.
Collagen, although essential for keeping our skin's firm, supple appearance, can not do the job on its own.
Like anything you want to be at its best, it is about nourishing and protecting. Nourishing is done by feeding your skin with active vitamins and minerals, helping your cells to grow with optimal health. Protecting is achieved by a daily boost of high quality, effective, antioxidants, helping to stop the breakdown of collagen and elastin from pollution and other free radicals.
So let us talk about vitamins, minerals and those important antioxidants.
Vitamin A is an essential nutrient for the skin; not only does it support collagen and elastin production; it also supports a healthy keratin production, helping to thicken and strengthens your skin. Vitamin A has wonderful hydrating and healing properties, resulting in a radiant, healthy glow.
Vitamin B complex is another key vitamin group in supporting healthy skin cells. This vitamin group is effective in improving the skin's barrier, protecting and locking in moisture, while also regulating cell turnover and sebum production. Vitamin B3 helps slows down the transportation of melanin to the skin's surface; this prevents hyper-pigmentation, which can appear as age spots on the skin.
Vitamin C is one of the essential nutrients when it comes to slowing done the aging process. Although consuming vitamin will benefit your total health, to achieve the best result, applying vitamin C to your skin topically will provide the active components needed to help protect collagen synthesis. Vitamin C applied to your skin daily will help deliver and maintain skin-protecting antioxidants. Antioxidants are vital in protecting damage from free radicals; this will allow good collagen production, resulting in a firmer, healthy complexion. Vitamin C also helps brighten dull skin, for that youthful glow.
Vitamin D helps calm inflammation and helps repair damaged skin cells, protects the skin from free radicals, and improves cell turnover for that healthy, glowing complexion. Vitamin D also helps strengthen skin cells and has been known to help to treat eczema and rosacea.
Vitamin E is excellent for hydration and supporting the healing of the skin cells. Dehydrated skin cells are vulnerable to damage and will increase the appearance of aging. Hydrated skin cells are fuller, more resilient and will result in a youthful glow.
Omega 3-6 and 9 are superfoods for your skin cells. Helping to improve the barrier function of your skin and deeply moisturising, omega's are the must-have fatty acids for your daily skincare routine. Omega fatty acids support healthy skin cell structure resulting in a smoother youthful complexion as well as being an excellent anti-inflammatory.
Zinc is an essential mineral for skin health. Helping to remove the dead skin cells from the surface of your skin and regulate sebum for a fresh complexion, Zinc also has wonderful healing properties.
Looking after your skin cells does not mean you need to purchase bottles and bottles of all different products to gain all the nutritious ingredients necessary to feed your skin. The best way to add these wonderful ingredients into your daily skincare routine is to use multitasking products and are of high grade.
Natural oils and essences are multitasking; for example, Evening primrose oil contains fatty acids, zinc, magnesium, vitamin B3, B6 and vitamin C. The quality of the oil is also essential, using ingredients that are sourced from high-quality plants and extracted carefully, so it doesn't harm the active cells of that plant, will give you an active, effective product.
Nurture and love your skin cells, and they will love you back, giving you a beautiful, healthy complexion.