Vitamin E helps prevent cancer and heart disease, reports Gale Maleskey, a nutritional therapist and author of "Nature's Medicines: The Definitive Guide to Health Supplements." Used topically, vitamin E acts to protect you from the harmfulness of the sun. It also treats your skin's appearance, heals bedsores, soothes genital herpes, and treats sores around your mouth. She also writes that skin conditions of psoriasis respond to its topical application. Consult your doctor before using vitamin E to treat a medical condition.
Burns
Any kind of burn on your skin can benefit from the application of vitamin E oil. You may even puncture a vitamin E capsule and place the liquid on the burn. While vitamin E does not replace medical treatment for burns, it can help soothe the burned area and can help it heal faster.
Inflammation
Vitamin E oil will help heal your skin inflammation by its soothing and moisturizing effects. Its moisturizing effect helps keep your pores open and stops further blemishes on your skin. It also prevents dry skin from flaking, which may clog your pores.
Sun Block
Adding a vitamin E lotion to your everyday regime will help protect your skin from the sun's harmful rays. The antioxidant effects of vitamin E protects you from the harmful UV-B sun rays. Using this skin protective vitamin E lotion will help reduce aging of the skin, reports the Nutritional Supplements Health Guide.
Bedsores
Bedsores occur because of pressure, Mayo Clinic reports. A bedsore develops within 24 hours and is difficult to heal. Rubbing vitamin E oil into the skin will aid the skin's circulation, which may help stop and reduce bedsores, Maleskey states. Vitamin E oil also provides moisture to irritated and inflamed skin.
References
- "Nature's Medicines: The Definitive Guide to Health Supplements"; Gale Maleskey, et al.; 1999
- Mayo Clinic: Bedsores Pressure Sores
- Nutritional Supplements Health Guide: Vitamin E Oil as a Potent Source of Vitamin E for Skin
- University of Maryland Medical Center: Vitamin E
- MedlinePlus: Vitamin E
- DoctorYourself.com: The Selection and Therapeutic Use of Vitamin E



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