If you are a beauty lover and often focus on skincare, you will notice that more newly developed products have antioxidant properties.

What exactly is this concept of antioxidants? Does our skin need antioxidants? Let's come together to understand the unique role of antioxidants.

1. Free radicals are the culprits of skin ageing

The skin is affected by the body's functions and the external environment and will react with oxygen, producing too many free radicals to rob the skin of nutrients.

This damage occurs on the skin, causing collagen and elastic fibres to relax and become brittle, slowing epidermal cell renewal.

Furthermore, when free radicals damage the cell nucleus, they cannot divide into healthy cells, and the intercellular lipids are divided and destroyed, making it impossible to hold on to the moisture in the skin.

Excessive free radicals attack skin cells, causing ageing of the body, mutation of organs and tissues, ageing of the skin, and decreased immunity.

It can be said that free radicals are the culprits of skin ageing, pigmentation, and darkening. The essence of antioxidants is to resist and destroy free radicals.

2. What causes oxidation?

Many factors produce free radicals in the human body. Every day, our body's metabolism generates free radicals.

UVA in ultraviolet rays can pierce the stratum corneum and enter the skin to destroy cell tissues. After the cells are stimulated, many free radicals will be produced, accelerating the destruction of normal human tissues.

If you live an irregular life, often stay up late, like to smoke, and work under too much pressure, the human body will also produce many free radicals.

Free radicals will continue to produce as long as life exists, and antioxidants are necessary.

3. Antioxidant skin care products should be chosen

Many skin care products have antioxidant functions; consider the critical antioxidant ingredients when selecting. Vitamin C and Vitamin E are very widely used and are the best-known antioxidant ingredients.

Vitamin C is unstable and easily oxidized by oxygen in the air. Most of the antioxidant products with VC as the main ingredient are in small packages, which must be used once after opening.

A lot of VC derivatives have been developed to solve the problem of easy oxidation of VC, and these ingredients are relatively stable and not easily oxidized.

In addition to applying maintenance products, the ideal antioxidant also tries to eat more fresh fruits and vegetables, salmon, grapes, tomatoes, mangosteen, blueberries, pomegranates, etc.