The search for the world?s finest antiaging skin care product took me around the world to the jungles of Africa, the snow-capped mountains of the Swiss Alps, and the underground lairs of some of the world?s most secret Egyptian caves. In the end, my discovery was an incredible one that gave me more than I bargained for.

The Benefits of Tea

For starters, I wanted to look into the bold claims of what a good green tea product could do in terms of an antiaging skin care product. Now tea is an ancient herbal drink that many of us are familiar with and it is also considered to be a ?health food? because of the many benefits of drinking tea and its properties of detoxification. A good cup of tea can apparently help cure cancer, prevent heart disease, gum disease, and help with weight loss as well. But what about skin care?

Well, it turns out that green teas actually do help with skin care and the prospect of having healthy, younger-looking skin. There are polyphenols in tea that do a lot of the work and these are generally called ?catechins?. These catechins perform the bulk of the work and believe me, there are a lot of different catechins in tea, especially green tea. In fact, green tea has almost 20 times the amount of catechins in it as black tea.

These polyphenols effectively fight the signs of aging by keeping us healthy inside. Tea increases the antioxidant quality of your skin and even your blood by allowing it to take on more oxygen and breathe easier, so naturally the higher amount of polyphenols you have working for you the greater antioxidant quality your skin has. It sounds like an unorthodox method in terms of skin care, especially in a market filled with creams and lotions and serums, but it is possible that the best antiaging skin care product out there is something you drink.

Education

The search for information became almost as important, if not more important than the search for the perfect antiaging skin care product. As I continued to look around the world, I became enamoured with the information that we have about the skin already and realized that we should be using that to our advantage first and a miracle skin cream last. The best weapon against the signs of aging would turn out to be education.