Friday, April 20, 2007

Natural Supplement for Skin Care

Your skin needs many nutrient for regeneration, so our skin will appear bright and tight. For getting good, young and health skin, we need some nutrients that useful for skin care.

  • Essential fatty acid
    The skin needs good fatty acid such as omega-3 and omega-6. This oil helps skin againts acne, eczema and others.
    Omega-3 can be got from cold water fish and flaxseed oil and also supplement.
    Omega-6 from evening primrose oil or borage oil. The other sources are egg, bird, some vegetable oils and wheat bread.
  • Antioxidant for skin care
    Deficiency of zinc can retard wound recovery or active acne. Zinc helps skin growth and regeneration. Zinc can be found in egg, meat and wheat germ.
  • Iodine
    Help thyroid to run proper function. Less of iodine cause dry hair and other skin condition. Can be found in seafood and salt that given with iodine.
  • Selenium
    Antioxidant that works with vitamin E to make our skin young. Can be found in fish, whole grain and innards (entrails as food).
  • Potassium
    Help your skin tight and regeneration. Can be found in potato, banana, whole grain and green leaf vegetables.
  • Phosphorus
    For health skin and bone. Rich protein food give us this nutrient.
  • Zinc
    Give energy. Work with other mineral to produce haemoglobine in the blood. Choose green leaf vegetables and meat.
  • Copper
    Important for skin elasticity and tightness, also help nerve system. Can be found in green leaf vegetables and seafod.
  • Calcium
    Very important for women, for health teeth and bone, hormonal balance and skin care. Find in milk, milk product, include cheese, brocolli, soybean product and sardine.
  • Chromium
    Chromium againts acne because decrease infection. Get in the form of chromium iodinate or chromium polynicotinate.

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