Are you a coffee drinker?
If so, is it standard coffee with caffeine or are you like me, love coffee, especially Espresso, but can only drink decaffeinated?
Well, whatever you way you drink it, cappuccino, latte, Americano, or Flat white, it’s a day to celebrate with a coffee!
Coffee, especially the caffeine part (which is also found on tea), is used in skin care as an ingredients, as it has some amazing benefits for the skin, and even cellulite! Caffeine is often found in face, body masks and eye area products, such as creams, serums and masks.
Have you used a skin care product containing caffeine?
The benefits include:
· Anti-oxidant that helps even out the skin tone, and protecting the skin from free radical damage
· It firms by boosting the elasticity which makes the skin look tighter and more youthful
· It can restrict the veins, which reduces blood flow to the area brightening the skin and making the
skin look smoother
· Reduces the skin’s redness due to the veins being restricted
· Reduces puffiness as it is a diuretic and helps relieve water retention, so especially good for eye
area
· Reduces inflammation
· Reduces dark circles by helping to lighten the area
· Delays the appearance of lines and wrinkles, so perfect for a maturing skin
· Helps to increase the SPF (sun protection factor) value in your sunscreen
· Plus has a positive effect on cellulite, by helping to reduce its appearance through a process called
lipolysis
In most skin care that you buy there is only up to 3% caffeine content, and research has found that even this amount is very active and can help with slowing down the ageing process of the skin and even have a role in promoting hair growth, so great to be included in hair and scalp treatments.
Due to caffeine being water soluble, the hair follicle is one of the ways that the ingredient can penetrate the skin, and this action can vary in differing parts of the body. In fact, the hair follicles can have ‘weak spots’ where penetration is easier and this helps in the medical field too, where topical medicines can be absorbed quicker.
So, keep a look out for caffeine as ingredient in your next skin care product, especially your eye cream or serum!
Love,
Shirley xx
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