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 White tea extracts are increasingly central components in cosmetics. Tools Shiseido, Dior, other brands have white tea in the composition. The question arises: why did not the green tea? After all, it is most often mentioned when people talk about the health properties of tea to protect your skin from free radicals.
What is White Tea? He also, like green tea, is obtained from a plant Camellia Sinesis, this evergreen shrub. However, these two varieties of tea made in different ways. Green tea is produced by steaming and drying the leaves of Camellia Sinesis. White tea - a young tea leaves and buds that are slightly pour steam immediately after the harvest, and then dried in the sun. Thus, treatment of minimal white tea, catechin content therein (this antioxidant) higher. In other words, white tea antioxidants greater than in the green and black.
There is another advantage. A 2009 study (Kingston University, London) shows that white tea fights against premature aging. And not only due to the antioxidant action. White tea prevents deterioration of collagen and elastin bonds occurring with age. Green tea has similar properties but is less effective.
And yet white tea has a so-called PHOTOPROTECTIVE properties, that is, protects against photoaging. It protects against ultraviolet radiation.
So it proved more active effect on the skin is white tea, but green tea is also quite effective anti-aging agent for skin.
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