Natural Beauty Treatments: Vitamin E and Younger Looking Skin

October 8, 2008 by Athlyn Green  
Published in Beauty

Vitamin E can work wonders, reducing wrinkles and leaving skin looking younger.

Vitamin E is a natural product that can play an important role in skin care.

If you are trying natural products to boost beauty, vitamin E should be on your must-have list. It can be applied to the face and body surface for younger-looking skin.

Vitamin E and Skin

  • Vitamin E is a lipid-based antioxidant, protecting skin cells from damage by rendering protection from free radicals (vitamin E protects cells and cell membranes from oxidative stress).
  • Vitamin E combats the ravages of aging by reducing fine lines and wrinkles on the skin’s surface.
  • Vitamin E has skin moisturizing properties and helps to prevent water loss from the skin.
  • Vitamin E can help with certain skin conditions that make skin look rough or appear aged.
  • Taking vitamin E orally can also help the appearance of skin, it works from the inside out to repair and strengthen skin.
  • Vitamin E can help to protect the skin from sun damage, which in turn combats aging.
  • Vitamin E plays an important role in tissue repair–especially important for mature skin. (Vitamin E can help to diminish age spots.)
  • Vitamin E is believed to reduce the appearance of stretch marks.

The jury is still out as to the role vitamin E plays in relation to scarring (some individuals have claimed that it reduced scars while others felt that it worsened theirs).

Vitamin E can be applied topically (alpha-tocopherol) and taken orally to support the skin. Some people break open vitamin E oil capsules and apply them directly to skin; others look for natural skin-care products containing vitamin E.

If you are looking at natural ways to boost beauty, why not try vitamin E for younger looking skin?

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8 Responses to “Natural Beauty Treatments: Vitamin E and Younger Looking Skin”
  1. mdegenhardt Says:

    Some wonderful facts, and they work for men too? Not that I’d try, ahem, I’ll tell my wife. Excellent advice. Michael

  2. Athlyn Green Says:

    Skin care for men is just as important. Vitamin E can guard health and aid skin for both men and women.

  3. gabbic1219 Says:

    hello,athlyn,i have a article on keeping skin youthful longer as well…i see we both know the importance of vitimin E, GREAT ARTICLE U GAVE MANY DETAILS ON VIT. E i have a few other tips in mine,please check it out!

  4. jhenz Says:

    is it true that when you get too much of vitamin, it’s bad for the skin? will you get cancer out of this?

  5. Athlyn Green Says:

    Hi Gabbic,
    I will do so. Thanks.

  6. Athlyn Green Says:

    Hi Jhenz,
    Too much of anything can be harmful. If you take vitamin E as directed it can benefit you from a health standpoint.

    Its benefits, in relation to the skin are well known.

    I’ve never heard of any link between vitamin E and cancer–in fact, just the opposite. It appears to have a protective effect on body systems, full of powerful, disease-fighting compounds.

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