What you need to know about Acai and Acai Skin Care Products
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What is Acai?
Acai skincare gets its name from the acai palm. Native to Central and South America, the acai palm produces a small and round dark purple fruit that can be compared slightly to a grape.
Why Acai?
The popularity of the acai palm began with the discovery of its dark pigmentation. Much like other natural ingredients, this is often a signifier of high antioxidant content. Antioxidants have numerous health benefits and can be used to slow the aging process. Needless to say, this brought the acai palm quickly into the spotlight and its fruit is in high demand. The Acai fruit has been all the rage lately, and is on it’s way to becoming the most popular product in the health food industry. Ever since Oprah featured Acai as her #1 super food it seems that everyone can’t get enough of this powerful berry. Most known for its energy boosting and cancer fighting properties many new Acai skin care products have recently been introduced to the market.
Acai Skincare Products
You might be wondering why Acai berries can help with skin care. First, Acai Berries are stuffed full of vitamins, minerals, essential fatty acids, and amino acids that are vital to a healthy body. Eating a healthy diet that gives your body all the nutrients it needs to run smoothly is the first, and most in, caused by free radicals, is one of the biggest contributors to aging. Our body naturally produces free radicals, and their damage can be seen with dry skin, wrinkles, and changes in skin tone.
These days you can't open a magazine or turn on the TV without seeing a smooth-faced middle-aged actress or model touting skin care products that can "reverse the clock" on aging skin. "Free radicals," "antioxidants" and "alpha-lipoic acid" have become buzzwords in the quest for eternally radiant skin.
What are these "miracle" ingredients and how do they work? Can they actually erase wrinkles, repair sun damage, or diminish age spots?
Antioxidants protect your body from free radicals, and assist in repairing the damage they cause. Not only do they help give you beautiful hair and skin, but they can also help fight off cancer and strengthen your immune system.
Antioxidants are natural substances made up of vitamins and minerals. They have the ability to fight "free radicals" -- unstable compounds that attack human cells and damage DNA. Damaged skin cells can lead to accelerated aging in the form of wrinkles, dry skin, dark circles under eyes, dull skin, and more.
As one of the most powerfully nutritious foods in the world, you can purchase it as a berry and more popularly as a juice. Besides all its punch of antioxidants, it also contains Omega 6 and Omega 9 fatty acids, which can keep your cholesterol under control while still bringing restoration to your skin.
Free radicals are in the air we breathe, the foods we eat, sunlight, and pollution -- basically, just about everywhere. Eating foods rich in antioxidants is one way to ward them off. Another is to apply them on the skin, where they can seep underneath to strengthen skin cells and keep them healthy.
“Chinese consumers need to be educated about organic skin care products and Acai products”, a colleague of mine concluded after a recent trip to Beijing, and I agree. Learning and understanding about a product’s ingredients and functions takes time. And time, in essence is what this product is made to fight against.
Acai skincare gets its name from the acai palm. Native to Central and South America, the acai palm produces a small and round dark purple fruit that can be compared slightly to a grape.
Why Acai?
The popularity of the acai palm began with the discovery of its dark pigmentation. Much like other natural ingredients, this is often a signifier of high antioxidant content. Antioxidants have numerous health benefits and can be used to slow the aging process. Needless to say, this brought the acai palm quickly into the spotlight and its fruit is in high demand. The Acai fruit has been all the rage lately, and is on it’s way to becoming the most popular product in the health food industry. Ever since Oprah featured Acai as her #1 super food it seems that everyone can’t get enough of this powerful berry. Most known for its energy boosting and cancer fighting properties many new Acai skin care products have recently been introduced to the market.
Acai Skincare Products
You might be wondering why Acai berries can help with skin care. First, Acai Berries are stuffed full of vitamins, minerals, essential fatty acids, and amino acids that are vital to a healthy body. Eating a healthy diet that gives your body all the nutrients it needs to run smoothly is the first, and most in, caused by free radicals, is one of the biggest contributors to aging. Our body naturally produces free radicals, and their damage can be seen with dry skin, wrinkles, and changes in skin tone.
These days you can't open a magazine or turn on the TV without seeing a smooth-faced middle-aged actress or model touting skin care products that can "reverse the clock" on aging skin. "Free radicals," "antioxidants" and "alpha-lipoic acid" have become buzzwords in the quest for eternally radiant skin.
What are these "miracle" ingredients and how do they work? Can they actually erase wrinkles, repair sun damage, or diminish age spots?
Antioxidants protect your body from free radicals, and assist in repairing the damage they cause. Not only do they help give you beautiful hair and skin, but they can also help fight off cancer and strengthen your immune system.
Antioxidants are natural substances made up of vitamins and minerals. They have the ability to fight "free radicals" -- unstable compounds that attack human cells and damage DNA. Damaged skin cells can lead to accelerated aging in the form of wrinkles, dry skin, dark circles under eyes, dull skin, and more.
As one of the most powerfully nutritious foods in the world, you can purchase it as a berry and more popularly as a juice. Besides all its punch of antioxidants, it also contains Omega 6 and Omega 9 fatty acids, which can keep your cholesterol under control while still bringing restoration to your skin.
Free radicals are in the air we breathe, the foods we eat, sunlight, and pollution -- basically, just about everywhere. Eating foods rich in antioxidants is one way to ward them off. Another is to apply them on the skin, where they can seep underneath to strengthen skin cells and keep them healthy.
“Chinese consumers need to be educated about organic skin care products and Acai products”, a colleague of mine concluded after a recent trip to Beijing, and I agree. Learning and understanding about a product’s ingredients and functions takes time. And time, in essence is what this product is made to fight against.
29 May 2009 16:44
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