Everyone wants to look and feel good, and a lot of people spend their whole lives searching for those secret magic bullets that are going to turn them from aging, wrinkling people into young, nourished and healthy people. Most people look at artificial products such as anti-aging creams, but the real secret that mostly everyone seems to overlook is vitamins!
Allow me to help you discover this secret, or perhaps rediscover it.
Which vitamins are good for your skin?
Vitamin C
Vitamin C helps to combat all those nasty free radicals, UV rays, and pollution such as dust, pollen and polluted air. It can be found in a variety of fruits and can be helpful in restoring your skin’s natural youthfulness, and protect it from any further damage. The most notable effect of taking Vitamin C is its ability to combat the harmful effects of the sun, and to restrict and mostly eliminate the harmful effects of the UV rays from the sun.
Vitamin E
Like Vitamin C, Vitamin E helps to significantly reduce the harmful effects of the sun on your skin. It is also one of the most powerful and effective vitamins to help to eliminate the free radicals roaming around your body and prematurely aging your skin. It is useful to note that because Vitamin E is fat-soluble, it remains effective in the body a lot longer than Vitamin C does. It also helps to combat the cancer-causing cells that might happen to be roaming around your body.
Vitamin A
Vitamin A is a vital vitamin for your body, as it is used by the body for growth and repair. It is also used for healthy eyesight, your appetite and also your taste. You’ll know if you’re lacking in Vitamin A as if you drop below the expected intake per day, you’ll start to notice dry and flaky skin on your body. If you take this in a cream form, it has been known to significantly help acne sufferers, and also helps to reduce lines and wrinkles.
Foods for Healthy Skin
Now, before you go running out to buy a giant tub of multivitamins, allow me to explain to you how you can easily get your daily vitamin intake from food containing vitamins for healthy skin.
As you might expect, fruit and vegetables are the biggest source of vitamins and minerals when attempting to get your vitamins from a diet. This is because they are natural foods, unprocessed and therefore not stripped of any of their natural vitamins and minerals. You can find a whole range of vitamins in fruit and vegetables, but there are some power foods which contain a lot more of certain vitamins than other types of fruit and veg.
For example, if you’re looking for fruit and vegetables that contain high amounts of Vitamin C, then you might want to look into a range of citrus fruits, the most notable being oranges. As for vegetables, the ones that contain the most amount of vitamin C are butternut squash and broccoli.
Now, if you’re looking for foods that contain high levels of Vitamin E, you’ll definitely want to look into a whole range of fruits. Here is just a selection of fruits containing very high amounts of Vitamin E:
- Avocado
- Blackberries
- Blueberries
- Cranberries
- Kiwi
- Mango
- Nectarine
- Papaya
- Peach
- Pomegranate
- Raspberries
As for vegetables, you should look into potatoes, butternut squash and also parsnips.
Finally, if you’re looking to consume Vitamin A through a natural and healthy diet, then you can’t really go wrong, as most fruits contain Vitamin A. However, the fruits that contain high amount of Vitamin A would be fruits such as Passionfruit, Tomatoes, Watermelon, Grapefruit and Mangoes.
Supplements for Healthy Skin
Now a lot of the time, none of us have time to sit down, plan meals, and eat well. Our lives are simply too busy and too hectic to warrant being able to prepare fresh meals every day. This might be due to having a very hectic professional life, requiring you to travel often or to work very late into the night before you have a chance to head home. Or it might be that you simply have no time for yourself due to being a very worn out parent at the end of the day!
However, don’t despair, as there are great inventions called supplements. What these basically are, are a form of consuming vitamins and minerals to make up for such deficiencies in your diet. You can find packs of multivitamins that contain a wide range of vitamins and minerals designed so that you don’t have to consume a million different tablets each day. Otherwise, if you’re only looking for certain vitamins (such as Vitamins A, E and C perhaps?) then you might prefer to simply just take the vitamins that you need or require.
You can find such supplements around your local supermarket, in the health and toiletries section usually. Otherwise, you might like to head to your local specialist health store, where the people who work there might give you advice on which brands are superior and most effective.
Well, that’s about it for vitamins for healthy skin. Make sure you consume the recommended doses, and don’t exceed them as it may not alleviate your problems, and indeed may make them worse! For the final word, I would advise you to attempt to get your vitamins from eating healthily; it has been found that we tend to absorb the vitamins much more efficiently and effectively through food, rather than from consuming supplements.
