Tuesday, April 28, 2009 - 1:00 pm ET
Do you love green tea? I’m sure you’re well aware of the health benefits of drinking green tea, but did you know green tea has skincare benefits as well? Green tea has natural and potent anti-aging benefits and can now be found in quite a few skin care products. When applied to skin topically, green tea can help to repair sun damage, stimulate new cell growth and enhance your skin tone.
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Leaf & Rusher Green Tea Wash ($37) is enriched with ceremonial green tea, licorice and amino acids to gently cleanse your skin. Made for all skin types it leaves your skin balanced and fresh.
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Jo Malone Green Tea & Honey Eye Cream ($50) will give those tired, dull eyes a hydrating boost with the honey, greet tea and vitamin E.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009 - 1:00 pm ET
Monday, February 27, 2006 - 7:16 am ET
You have probably heard about Green Tea and how good it is for you. Believe it or not, I used to drink the better part of 2 pots of coffee every day, but now I finish about 3/4 of a pot, and then switch to green tea for the later afternoon (tea time – 4pm) and into the evening. Green and Black Tea (the classic tea) are made from the same leaves, but Green Tea is much less processed and not fermented, like Black Tea, which saves lots of the beneficial compounds. This is from the Celestial Seasonings website, and is about the compounds found in green tea:
Flavonoids are nutrient antioxidants found in most plants and many foods common in the human diet. There are 12 types of flavonoids, and one plant species may contain hundreds of different flavonoids. Polyphenol is a broad class of antioxidants including flavonoids and catechins. Catechins are a type of flavonoid contained in the leaves of tea. Catechins are very strong antioxidants, even more powerful than vitamins A, C, E and beta-carotene at combating harmful free radicals and protecting fragile DNA.
If you remember, antioxidants combat those free radicals, oxygen molecules that are floating around breaking apart your cells and causing problems from wrinkles to cancer. Green tea is also purported to help with things like cavities, weight loss and arthritis.
I have been drinking this super-yummy Moroccan Mint green tea from Teavana lately and it beats all the other green teas I have tried by a long shot!
Monday, February 27, 2006 - 7:16 am ET
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Do ice blended soy green tea drinks from Coffee Bean count?
I think it probably does. You might look for information on catechins on the label somewhere. During my reading yesterday I found where different brands of tea contain between 30 and 200 mg (or maybe mcg) of catechins – the more, the more beneficial your tea is!
Heard about the weightloss before but not the rest
… seems even better to me now.
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