Green Tea: This Powerhouse Ingredient Will Wake Up Your Skin

Studies have shown that antioxidant-rich green tea has anti-inflammatory, reparative, and soothing properties and can help reduce redness and correct environmental damage caused to the skin. Partnered with tightening and brightening caffeine (also found in the plant), green tea is a miraculous ingredient that thankfully is just as easy to add to your routine as brewing a cup at home. Below, a few green tea-rich products beloved by us here at SHEN. 

Mara Volcanic Sea Clay Detox Mask

With comparisons to a green juice for the face, YTTP’s Superfood Cleanser pairs green tea with other nutrient-rich ingredients like kale, spinach, aloe and chamomile. The gel creates a lovely lightweight lather that leaves a clean but not too tight feeling, making it suitable for anyone from teenagers to more mature skin types looking for a deep clean. 

Superfood Cleanser

 

This is much more than your standard hyaluronic acid serum. Packed with peptides, B vitamins, green tea water and an anti-aging compound found in ginseng, this booster fights fine lines and wrinkles while addressing uneven skin tone and sun damage. It offers many benefits without the sensitization that some may experience with other antioxidant ingredients like vitamin C. 

Age-Response Compound K Hyaluronic Booster

 

These individual oil capsules guarantee that you are getting ingredients like retinol, Vitamin C, E and green tea at their most efficacious with every use. Used on its own or added to a regular moisturizer, this silky oil deeply nourishes the skin while repairing damage and is excellent for anyone that feels their skin is dehydrated or lackluster. 

Vita-Antioxidant Hydrating Oil Capsules

 

Made with lactic and glycolic acid, this twice a week peel really packs a punch. While the acids whisk away dead skin cells, the addition of soothing green tea extract among these potent ingredients calms the skin, so that come morning it feels smooth and fresh - not angry. 

For beauty from the inside out, 8 Greens Skin packs green tea, broccoli, aloe, kale, collard greens, spinach, peppermint, and alfalfa into apple flavored effervescent tablets that also boast marine collagen and biotin to help boost skin’s elasticity and hydration. The easy to take tablets ensure a daily dose of greens along with a reported reduction in skin redness and acne.