Your skin goes through a lot from the time you leave your home until you return. For this reason, it’s imperative to ensure it’s well-equipped to handle any and everything it encounters throughout the day. Incorporating anti-aging antioxidants into your skincare routine as well as your daily diet will offer a wealth of benefits that keep your skin as healthy and radiant as possible.

What Are Antioxidants and How Do They Help My Skin?

To understand the role and importance of antioxidants, you must first understand free radicals. The sun’s UV rays, air pollutants, a poor diet, and even your stress levels all produce free radicals, which are unstable molecules leading to premature skin aging, dullness, and inflammation. These unstable molecules completely disrupt your skin, breaking down collagen and elastin, which make it less supple and resilient.

Anti-aging antioxidants, however, neutralize these problem-causing free radicals, reducing damage and keeping the skin firm and bright. Without the help of antioxidants, your skin is more vulnerable to cellular damage and could start to show sagginess, fine lines, wrinkles, and other premature signs of aging.

Here are some of the many skin benefits of antioxidants:

Protection Against UV and Environmental Damage

The sun is our beloved beacon of energy and light; at the same time, too much exposure can be extremely harmful. UV rays are a primary source of free radicals. As mentioned earlier, antioxidants help neutralize free radicals. In other words, your healthy skin cells donate electrons to stabilize the free radicals which help them better defend against oxidative stress caused by polluted air and UV rays. So if you’re applying sunscreen every day as you should, antioxidants provide an extra layer of protection that shields your skin from sun damage.

Brightens Skin and Evens Complexion

If your skin seems discolored or has sunspots and hyperpigmentation, anti-aging antioxidants are the perfect remedy. Since antioxidants help regenerate new skin cells and repair damaged ones, inhibiting the overproduction of melanin (from acne scars and sunburn), they help your skin achieve a beautiful glow.

Enhances Hydration and Improves Skin Barrier

Protecting your epidermis, which is the outermost layer of the skin, is most vital to its overall health. Oxidative stress jeopardizes the skin’s barrier which stimulates ceramide-lipid components. Antioxidants help retain moisture by allowing your skin to retain its natural water. When the skin barrier suffers from transepidermal water loss, it becomes dry and loses elasticity. Antioxidants improve water retention, helping skin remain hydrated and moisturized.

How Can I Incorporate Antioxidants Into My Daily Routine?

Anti-aging antioxidants can be topical skin treatments, but they can also be consumed. Perhaps the best antioxidant serums include vitamins E and C. When they’re used together, they provide protection, healing, and brightening properties that fortify the skin. Vitamins E and C come in serums and nourishing face creams that leave the skin visibly smooth and vibrant.

Another esthetician-recommended antioxidant is vitamin B3, also known as niacinamide. Niacinamide benefits are especially helpful for those combatting acne, redness, and hyperpigmentation, as it helps the skin build proteins and lock in moisture to ward off harmful external effects.

If you prefer to get your fair share of antioxidants through food or drinks, there are several healthy options to choose from. Specifically, the antioxidant beta-carotene can be found in carrots, sweet potatoes, squash, pumpkin, and apricots. Also, leafy green veggies, such as spinach, kale, and collard greens contain especially high levels of beta-carotene. Another antioxidant called lycopene can be found in some fruits including papaya, watermelon, pink grapefruit, and tomatoes.

Tea drinkers, this one’s for you: green tea extract for skin is like honey to a bee. Several kinds of tea, including green, black, white, and oolong, are packed with polyphenols, which are plant compounds with antioxidant properties.

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