Green tea polyphenols have excellent antibacterial and anti-inflammatory properties that can help with certain skin disorders, such as psoriasis, warts, rosacea, and acne.

How do green tea skin care products really work?

The green tea polyphenols are water soluble, and as you may know your skin dies not allow such molecules to penetrate it. That means the polyphenols themselves cannot penetrate into the deeper layers of your skin, and staying on top of your skin is not very effective.

To solve that problem, the so called carriers are added to the skin care products. Those are agents that are easily absorbed by your skin and to which the green tea polyphenols molecules are connected. This way polyphenols can reach the deeper layers of your skin and take effect.

The three types of skin carriers are the herbal extracts, alcohols and essential oils. The most commonly used are the herbal extracts, because their high concentrated herbal ingredients are the most important part of an herb.

Can you obtain the same skin care benefits by drinking the green tea?

Professor Dr. Hsu from the Medical College of Georgia answers with NO to that question. That is because the amount of active green tea ingredients, reaching your skin cells through your blood, is very low, compared to the concentration of the green tea applied on the top of your skin.

How to choose a green tea skin care product that is truly effective?

In order to be sure that your green tea skin care product is truly effective, its list of ingredients should include green tea at first position; and also make sure it does not contain any parabens or propylene glycols, which are toxins that deactivate green tea polyphenols.

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