Plenty!  Let’s face it, your skin is a direct reflection of your health and perceived age.  When your skin feels dull, dry and lifeless, you just don’t feel as sexy and confident! 

Here’s the scoop on skin aging.  Your skin will naturally change over time due to two things. Number one: intrinsic or hereditary aging processes, which you can’t do much about. Number two: extrinsic or external factors, such as degradation from free radicals from the sun exposure* and pollution, which you can do A LOT about. Antioxidants are critical to maintaining younger-looking skin because they counter the skin-destructive free radicals.

The primary function of the skin, which, by the way, is the largest organ in the human body, is to provide a barrier of protection from the external environment. Your skin guards you against the sun, harmful microorganisms, and toxic substances, to name a few.

That’s great news for you, but bad news for your skin because exposure to sun and pollution both generate free radicals, which are considered to be key components in the degradation of healthy skin. For example, skin redness and inflammation and uneven splotchy skin tone are all linked to free radicals! 

Luckily, free radicals can be neutralized by antioxidant substances, such as beta-carotene, vitamin C, and vitamin E, which exist naturally in the skin. But here’s the catch: if these antioxidants become depleted, then cell degeneration can occur. And it’s this cell degeneration that leads to the breakdown of collagen and elastin, the building blocks of healthy skin. The result? An increase in fine lines and wrinkles.

The trick is making sure you always have more antioxidants than free radicals in your system. Free radical production arises as a natural byproduct of everyday living. It’s unavoidable. But if free radicals are produced in excess, due to overexposure to the sun, pollution, and other external toxic substances, then your antioxidant supply becomes depleted. That’s why it’s critical to replenish these antioxidants to protect your skin.

There’s increasing evidence that some antioxidants work synergistically with each other. Consider the case of vitamin E and vitamin C. By itself, vitamin E is a powerful antioxidant that protects your skin cells from free radicals. But once it has disarmed a free radical, vitamin E becomes spent, or inactive. Enter vitamin C. 

At GLOWELLE, we’re not advocating that you throw out all of your fabulous skin creams.  As believers in inside-out beauty, we know that great overall nutrition in combination with the cosmetics we all know and love can yield the best results.  Recent studies show this to be true with a number of Glowelle ingredients, such as  beta carotene, vitamins C and E, lycopene, lutein, and selenium.3,4,5

GLOWELLE provides the skin-beautifying nutrients your skin craves by using a combination of antioxidants from vitamins, phyto-nutrients, botanical and fruit extracts in efficacious amounts to nourish and hydrate skin from within. GLOWELLE™ offers the highest antioxidant Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity (ORAC) value of any leading beauty beverage (click on the chart to see the comparison!) with a blend of nutrients, including vitamins C & E, CoQ10, carotenoids, lutein and lycopene, combined with botanicals, including pine bark, pomegranate and green tea extracts—just what your skin needs to look healthy and glowing!