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.
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Hello friends, just as I promised, I continue to list the benefits of green tea in details. Today it’s the anti-aging effect of green tea.

As you already know, most of the listed benefits of green tea are for your inside, but you should know that green tea is great for your outside as well. What I mean is your skin and especially your face skin.

Green tea is used as an ingredient in many skin care products, such as body and face skin lotions, moisturizers, creams, even hair shampoos.

Green tea improves your skin in two ways:
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Another study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, was made with a test group of 38 overweight men for 12 weeks.

After the first two weeks the men were divided into two groups:

• the first group drank one bottle of green tea (containing 690 mg of catechins)
• the other group drank one bottle of oolong tea (I’ll talk about it later, for now I will only say it contains 22 mg catechins – a lot less that green tea, isn’t it)

Each man was given one bottle of green tea (oolong tea) a day.

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