Tea is the great anti-ager, and we have three beauty brews that will help you fight everything from redness to wrinkles.
By , Dr Oz The Good Life
Health smarties sip plenty of this wonder beverage, but now there's tea for your skin, too. Studies show that creams and serums made with the Camellia sinensis
plant (which all tea, whether it's black, white, or green, comes from)
can protect against sun damage, soothe redness and inflammation, and slow the formation of wrinkles, says Joshua Zeichner, MD, an assistant professor of dermatology at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. Are you ready to find your best beauty brew?
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White Tea
White Tea
What makes white, black, and green
teas different from each other? It's all about how much the leaves are
processed once they're picked. White tea gets fussed with the least, which is why some research shows it may have the highest levels of antioxidants, specifically the kind that help protect skin-plumping collagen and elastin.
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Brew-It-Yourself: White Tea Refresher
After exfoliating with your favorite scrub, gently spritz cool brewed white tea onto your skin.
Green Tea
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Brew-It-Yourself: White Tea Refresher
After exfoliating with your favorite scrub, gently spritz cool brewed white tea onto your skin.
Green Tea
When you go green, you reap the benefits of the tea's star
antioxidant, EGCG (short for epigallocatechin-3-gallate). In products, green tea may help heal wounds and give sunscreen an assist
by gobbling up aging free radicals that may have managed to get by your
SPF. And a study in the Journal of Investigative Dermatology
found that adding it to face cream helped curb acne and control
oiliness (it inhibits an enzyme in your skin's oil-producing glands).
Even drinking green tea can help ward off wrinkle-causing damage from the sun, research shows.
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Brew-It-Yourself: Skin-Toning Body Tonic
Stir together equal parts cool brewed green tea and
olive oil. Using circular movements, massage the mixture into your skin
pre-shower. Rinse and dry off, then mix a few drops of the tea into
your lotion and smooth it all over.
Black Tea
Extracts from this tea have been shown to decrease inflammation and signs of damage
when used both before and after spending time in the sun. You're also
getting one of the best skin protectors out there when you drink it —
people who regularly sip black tea have lower instances of skin cancer. A tasty sidenote: Adding a twist of citrus can trim your risk even further, according to a study published in BMC Dermatology.
Brew-It-Yourself: Glowing-Skin Black Tea Face Mask
Steep
five black tea bags in boiling water for three minutes. Once they're
cool, squeeze the water out of the bags, then open them. Mix the loose
tea with 1 teaspoon of honey and a splash of lemon juice. Massage onto your face and let sit for three to five minutes before washing off.
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