The sun may feel nice and warm on your skin, but what you can't see or feel is the damage it causes to your skin cells. The sun's ultraviolet rays are a leading factor in photoaging. Symptoms include skin discolorations like liver spots and wrinkles. Help protect against, and reverse, such damage with an antioxidant-rich skin treatment serum or cream.
Isomers Sunshine Serum
You don't need to expose your skin to the sun's harmful effects to get vitamin D. Isomers' product provides vitamin D in a skin re-conditioning serum, to which anti-aging expert Paula Begoun gave the highest rating on her three-grade ranking tier. She notes that it contained antioxidants, ceramides and essential fatty acids. All these active ingredients work together to help protect your skin when it's actually exposed to the sun, and may also help recondition and rejuvenate skin that's undergone past damage. Vitamin D in skin cream does not supply your body's need for the vitamin, but oral supplementation is preferable to sun exposure, most doctors agree.
Cellex-C High Potency Serum
The Cellex-C serum contains ascorbic acid, also known as vitamin C, in three patented complexes. Real Simple magazine's beauty editors picked it as one of the best vitamin C-boosted products, noting that the vitamin can help treat sun damage and improve collagen production that suffers when your skin is exposed to the sun. It also includes bioflavonoids and moisturizers that may work together to soften wrinkles, brighten skin discolorations and shield against new sun damage.
Murad Energizing Pomegranate Lip Therapy SPF 15
Your lips need conditioning treatments, too, especially since they're often ignored when you're applying sunscreen or facial products. InStyle magazine's beauty editors chose Murad's lip product as one of the best lip balms available. They love its built-in sunscreen and sun damage-preventing and -reversing pomegranate antioxidants, which reviewing dermatologist David McDaniel says creates a "good combination."
MAC Lightful Ultramoisture Creme
Begoun says MAC's moisturizing lotion is "jam-packed" with beneficial active ingredients like antioxidants and cell-communicating chemicals. These can help reverse sun damage like photoaging by enhancing skin health and skin cell turnover. Moisturizing emollients also improve the skin's natural barrier and keep you looking and feeling smooth and soft.
References
- "Don't Go to the Cosmetics Counter Without Me"; Paula Begoun; 2009
- Real Simple Magazine: What Are Those Ingredients in Your Skin-Care Products?
- InStyle Magazine: Murad
