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How do antioxidants work to combat ageing? Antioxidants help to prevent a number of harmful ageing processes revolving around free radicals.
These contribute to the skin’s ageing process by causing inflammation, reducing collagen & elastin production and increasing collagen & elastin breakdown in our skin.
Our skin will try to repair the damage, but this might happen sub-optimally so that with time damage will accumulate and the quality of collagen and elastin fibres will be reduced.
This ultimately leads to poorer skin elasticity with the development of lines and wrinkles. Using anti-oxidants will reduce the rate at which this takes place.