Our skin is our protective barrier and our protective barrier on a daily basis comes under attack from free radicals. Free radicals are everywhere and all around us, they are created in the environment – dust, pollution, and sunlight and from smoking, etc these harmful factors play havoc to our skin. What are free radicals" Free radicals are unstable molecules, that are made up of atoms and these atoms are made of pairs of electrons so when an atom is missing an electron that?s when free radicals are formed.
Free radicals can damage the skin by trying to grab an electron from atoms in the skin, so what you have is one over active unstable cell hunting around for an electron from another cell to help calm and rebalance it think security blanket. But, instead of this happening it actually has the reverse effect turning the healthy cell into another free radical so what you get is a ripple effect, causing cell by cell damage to elastic fibers and breakdown in skin?s collagen resulting in brown spots, broken blood vessels, loose and saggy skin and creating wrinkles. Wearing Sunscreen is always a good preventative method, and adding antioxidants is beneficial. Antioxidants are substances or nutrients found in our bodies, in products and food, they are molecule that stops the process of free radicals. These antioxidants have super hero powers their job is to help calm down and reduce free radical damage, by improving cell function, increasing collagen production, impro...