Skinfare Skin Care Blog

Antioxidants are those substances which prevent the damage done by free radicals on the skin. The free radicals we are most concerned with when it comes to skin are the oxygen molecules that have lost an electron through some form of environmental damage.

What does this have to do with wrinkles?

Wrinkles appear as the support structures and compounds beneath the skin lose their effectiveness. These structures and substances such as collagen and elastin get weaker through cell damage. Free radicals, missing their electron seek to steal it from other molecules making them weaker and when this happens, the skin can no longer be supported and small recesses of sunken skin appear which we call wrinkles.

Antioxidants such as vitamins A,C,E and some amino acids can help prevent this destructive sequence and some skin aging but the jury is out as to how effective they are and whether or not that can truly address the extensive and constant presence of free radicals on the skin.