If you are like me, you’ve probably read a label or two for an organic face cream and it definitely lists the ingredients that were used to create it. Still, an examination of those ingredients might not lead to discovery of these words “antioxidant,” “face cream,” “organic.” Despite that fact, the literature on organic facial products makes it clear that antioxidants enhance the natural biochemistry of skin cells any where on the body.

Sometimes, the makers of an organic face cream post their product ingredients online. Upon viewing that posting, an Internet surfer has a better chance for finding one or more of these three words: “antioxidant,” “face cream,” “organic.” In addition, that Internet surfer might note mention in the online information of several natural ingredients.

Anyone who has asked a search engine to unearth online information about a facial cream with organic ingredients might run across a website that makes mention of deionized water. Such water is used by scientific researchers, scientists who want to limit the number of variables in any experiment. Today, a number of skin care products contain deionized water.

Anyone who has typed the word “facial care” into a search engine has no doubt arrived at a website that has listed a number of sweet smelling oils. Substances such as avocado oil, wheat germ oil and virgin olive oil have long been used in facial masks. Today those substances are used in certain creams for the face.

By studying the ingredients in an organic face cream, one can also understand how ancient women managed to retain such smooth skin. Some of those women mashed together foods such as melon, carrot, avocado and banana, and then they added that mix to a combination of honey and yogurt. Those women had never heard the word “antioxidant.”

Organic face cream was also a term that was unfamiliar to ancient women. Through trial and error those women discovered how to care for the skin on their face. The women of Japan discovered that by eating sea kelp named Wakame they could hold-off the natural aging of facial skin cells.

Wakame contains an antioxidant. It has the ability to interfere with a certain chain reaction. That chain reaction has been linked to free radical damage in skin cells. When endothelial cells are nourished by an antioxidant, then they resist the damage that would otherwise result from the presence of free radials in those same cells.

Today, some of the most effective skin care products contain the age-defying ingredient that has been extracted from Japanese sea kelp. The Japanese women who lived in ancient times knew nothing about the biochemistry of the body’s endothelial cells. Those women had never heard the word “collagen” or “elastin.”

Today, smart women are learning about collagen and elastin. What are collagen and elastin, and how do those chemicals have a place in the arena of organic face cream? Collagen is a protein, a protein that is found in top quality skin care products. Due to its fibrous nature, collagen can provide a living cell with added strength. When cells have the ability to produce collagen, then those cells can remain firm to the touch. Those cells do not sag; they do not cause the formation of wrinkles.

Elastin, too, is a protein found in all healthy skin. When skin manufactures elastin then skin cells demonstrate a natural flexibility. Healthy skin cells can return to their original location, after they have been pushed or stretched.

A young adult has a countenance that glows, because his or her face contains healthy skin cells. When provided with the proper treatment, aging skin can take on the vitality of more youthful skin. An older face can thus be as glowing as a younger face.





By: Laurel Levine

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