Coffee Butter: Natural Skin Care Against Free Radical Attack - By: Laura Thomas

Coffee butter is a natural product, and as such is significantly kinder to your skin and to your general well-being than the vast majority of synthetics. If you check out the ingredients list of most commercial skin care products you will find a number of them that you would not normally use on your skin by choice such as surfactants that are the basis of detergents.

Coffee butter contains coffee butter, produced from the oil extracted from coffee beans and frequently blended with sunflower and soybean oil. It is then lightly hydrogenated to thicken it up into a butter that is easily smoothed onto your skin, making it feel silky smooth.

As you would imagine, one of the important ingredients is caffeine, and just as it stimulates you in the morning, so it stimulates your skin. Signs of aging skin, such as wrinkles, are cause by your skin losing moisture and also by the effects of free radicals that will be discussed shortly. Caffeine tightens up the skin, and so helps to iron out some of these wrinkles such as the crow's feet around your eyes and so-called laughter lines, a euphemism for wrinkles around the sides of your mouth.

Coffee butter is packed full of substances known as antioxidants that are very beneficial to your health in general and your skin in particular. Free radicals are small molecules generated by your metabolism, and also by pollutants such as insecticides and traffic and tobacco smoke.

Free radicals destroy the integrity of the cells in your body, leading to many problematic health defects. Where it affects your appearance is by destroying the membranes of your skin cells, and so leads to accelerated aging and wrinkles. Free radicals are also generated by the effect of the UV contained in sunlight, which is one of the reasons why those that live in hot, sunny climates tend to end up skin of a more creased and leathery appearance unless they have the natural darker skin coloring that protects their skin.

Antioxidants destroy these free radicals, and so help to preserve the integrity of your skin cells that allows you to maintain a more youthful appearance. In fact coffee is by far the richest source of antioxidants for Americans. The main antioxidants contained in the butter are phytophenols, of which chlorogenic acid is found in particularly high concentrations in coffee oil.

There are many others, and coffee is significantly richer in these important substances than even cranberries or blueberries. By rubbing coffee butter into your skin you are not only giving it a wake-up call with the caffeine, but also a longer-lasting treatment of antioxidants that will keep it looking younger and fresher.

Have you ever checked the ingredients of any of the very expensive skin creams? You will finds that they contain the common antioxidants such Vitamins A and E, and also some of the less common which is what you will be paying for. Coffee butter is richer than any of these and a darn sight cheaper, so you don't have to spend a fortune for top-class skin care. Coffee butter will do it for you.

About the Author

For further information on how coffee butter can help your skin look younger, and on other natural skin care products visit Laura Thomas's website Castle Baths and learn how natural skin care products can help you retain your youthful looks.

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