How to Stop Free Radical Damage

Free radical damage can break down even the most beautiful skin. In order to make sure your skin cells do not come to the surface damaged you want to make sure that you are using the right antioxidants.

Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• determine your skin type
• the right serum
• the right moisturizer

1. Understand free radicals. Free radicals are internal and external stressors that break down your skin cells and cause them to come to the surface of the skin as lines, wrinkles and discolorations. Free radicals are caused by stress, hormonal changes, pollution, sun, wind, dirt or oil. Take a clean, damp tissue and wipe a small spot of your face and look at the grime you have swept away. That grime is some of what causes free radical damage.
2. Stop free radical damage from ruining your skin. Antioxidants will stop free radicals from forming and breaking down your skin cells. Antioxidants are vitamins such as A, C and E. Think about taking care of your face from the outside just as you would for your body from the inside. You drink orange juice or white tea to stay healthy. Those same great antioxidants are now in many moisturizers to help fight damage to the exterior of your skin.
3. Protect every day. By using the proper day and night moisturizers with vitamins such as A, C, E or white tea you will be protecting your skin. In turn when your skin cells come to the surface of the skin they will be nice fresh, round cells with minimal damage. You can enhance the protection by applying a serum before your moisturizer. Serums may be designed to help fight at a deeper cellular level and together with a moisturizer will help to fight free radical damage so you can have healthy and radiant skin.

Tips & Warnings

• Drink plenty of water.
• Use a sun screen daily.
• Add products to your daily routine slowly so that you are not causing any undue harm to your skin by freaking it out.