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Vitamins for skin: what are the essentials?

Monday, July 26th, 2010

width="280"One of the essential vitamins for skin care is vitamin A. It helps your skin look much smoother and uniform, as well as collaborating with hydration. You’ll find it primarily in milk, fish and carrots, but also spinach and pumpkins also possess.

Vitamin B is great for the skin look healthy and especially radiant. The vitamin A you will find, in essence, milk, cereals and much fruit and vegetables.

Vitamin C is ideal for the skin to look firm and youthful, helping to form collagen naturally. Citrus fruits (mostly), spinach, broccoli or strawberries are high in vitamin C.

Vitamin E is an extremely effective antioxidant, which helps the cells to form better and protect the skin from the sun, among other things. The can be found in vegetable oils have been cold pressed and some nuts such as walnuts, basically. (more…)

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Skin Food -part 2-

Tuesday, June 15th, 2010

skin foodFruits and Vegetables

What and where are they contributing?

Pro-vitamin A or beta-carotene: is transformed into vitamin A in our body as it needs it and also possesses antioxidant action. Abundant in green leafy vegetables and red coloring, orange or yellow (carrots, squash …) and certain fruits (apricots, cherries, melons, peaches, nectarines …).

Vitamin A is present only in foods of animal origin such as liver, milk fat (cream and butter), egg yolk and whole milk. Plays a key role in the renewal of the skin and mucous membranes.

Lycopene: is an antioxidant pigment that gives tomatoes their characteristic color and also is present in the pulp of the apple, apricot, watermelon, papaya and pink grapefruit. (more…)

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Skin Nutrients

Wednesday, June 9th, 2010

skin nutrientsThe sun’s rays are the main aggressors to skin and one of the primary causes of aging and the development of melanomas.

The need to take care of our skin is especially important during the coming months. If put into practice a diet that ensures the correct supply of all essential nutrients for the skin, we can keep it in perfect health, if not then submitted to intense sunbathing without any protection.

Basic nutrients for the skin

Unsaturated fatty acids such as oleic acid, present in olive oil and avocados, and the fat found in oils from seeds, nuts and fish oil (especially blue) are required to maintain a well structured and hydrated skin .

Vitamin A plays a key role in the renewal of the skin and mucous membranes. It is found in animal foods: liver, milk fat, egg, whole milk. The beta-carotene, a precursor of vitamin A in the body, is abundant in green leafy vegetables and orange-red-yellow (carrot, tomato …) and certain fruits (apricots, cherries, melons, peaches, nectarines …). (more…)

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Vitamins For Skin

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

vitamins for skin

Some of the newer and more revolutionary skin treatments include the use of vitamins. Vitamins C, E and K are used in various skin treatments.

Vitamin C
Do you have dark circles under your eyes? Want to clear up your skin? Make it look soft and fresh?
The solution could be vitamin C. The new products based on vitamin C help improve dark circles under the eyes, to clarify and refine skin texture.

Vitamin C is in vogue in the world of cosmetics. Lancome has launched several products whose active ingredient is a form of vitamin C. Why? Vitamin C is a powerful antioxidant and anti-inflammatory. Vitamin C can help improve certain skin conditions such as damage caused by sun, laser treatments and some types of exfoliation.

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