The Best Ingredients for Your Face

When it comes to choosing a skin care regimen, it’s more important to look for key ingredients than to search out a specific product. For example, if you have aging skin that needs a little boost, saying that you need “a moisturizer” is simply not enough—what you really want is something that will condition your skin that’s packed with antioxidants and collagen boosters. If you have acne-ridden skin and are looking for the best  acne treatment, you won’t want to just buy any generic acne treatment without knowing that it has salicylic acid in it.

Here are some of skin care’s most important ingredients and how they can help you look your very best.

1. Antioxidants – Antioxidants help your skin stay strong and fight against the damaging effect of free radicals. Free radicals are known to break down youth-restoring collagen in the skin, so feeding your skin a daily dose of antioxidants can help keep you looking youthful and healthy for longer. Antioxidants in skin care products come in all shapes and sizes and include vitamin C, vitamin E, lycopenes, grape seed extract, and green tea.
2. Collagen boosters – Collagen keeps skin tight with its ability to tighten and make skin elastic, which means it can smooth out and prevent wrinkles and minimize (by tightening up) pores. You’ll want to look for such anti-aging ingredients as vitamin C, peptides, retinal, and genestein.
3. Chelators – Things like magnesium, copper, and zinc (in their organic, bound form) are absorbed into the skin with the aid of a chelator. These minerals have helpful and harmful components and the chelators help your skin absorb the good and reject the bad.
4. Natural plant-based oils – Natural oils that are carefully extracted from plants will moisturize skin without clogging pores. Look for ingredients like jojoba, grape seed oil, and olive oil.