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With so many skin care products containing harmful chemicals and by-products, it’s no surprise that natural skin care ingredients have been rapidly growing in popularity. People rightly want to know exactly what it is that they’re putting onto their skin, and therefore also into their bodies.
With that said, the natural world is vast. Nature is able to provide a spectacular bounty of skin-loving ingredients, but some are undeniably better than others. At VouPre, we want to ensure that you’re giving your skin the very best of the best. So, here are the natural skin care ingredients that you should be prioritizing when building a skin care routine:
Green Tea Extract
Green tea extract is one of the best natural skin care ingredients that you could pamper your skin with. It is loved for its high antioxidant content, particularly EGCG (epigallocatechin-3-gallate). This polyphenolic compound offers up a huge range of benefits, from reducing the appearance of sun damage to improving how elastic the skin feels.
If you’ve been noticing the visible signs of skin aging creeping up on your face, then green tea extract is an ingredient that you definitely want to be using.
Thanks to its potent effects, green tea extract can be found in so many skin care formulas. However, one of our favorites is the VouPre Advanced Gold Eye Serum. Why? Because not only is it infused with green tea extract, but it contains several other natural skin care ingredients too. From aloe leaf extract and grape stem cells, both of which you’ll soon learn more about, to ginkgo, calendula, and licorice root, this product effectively smooths away the look of creases around the eyes to leave the eye area looking firmer, brighter, and more contoured.
Aloe Vera Leaf Extract
You’re probably already familiar with some of the benefits that aloe vera packs, especially if you’ve ever tried to treat sunburnt skin. The way in which this botanical can quickly soothe and calm the feeling of inflammation makes it a go-to when dealing with UV damage.
However, aloe vera can boost the complexion in so many other ways too. It’s extremely moisturizing, which makes it great for dry skin. At the same time, it’s lightweight and easily absorbable, with powerful humectant properties, meaning that it’s a fantastic way to hydrate oily skin too. The long list of vitamins and amino acids in aloe vera makes it an ingredient that you can also depend on for fighting the look of skin aging as well.
While pure aloe vera gel works well, we prefer to use this ingredient in combination with others that support its effects. The VouPre Hydra-Glow Revitalizing Facial Mask does exactly that. In this formula, aloe vera is joined by other ingredients that soothe and hydrate the complexion, including lavender extract, allantoin, and collagen. As a result, just one use of this face mask will relieve the feeling of dry skin while giving your complexion an illuminated glow.
Grape Stem Cells
Just about all natural skin care ingredients are loaded with antioxidants. However, some, such as grape stem cells, contain a much higher concentration of antioxidant compounds. As a result, regular use of grape stem cells will not only reduce the appearance of free radical damage, meaning that it’ll make fine lines, wrinkles, and dark spots less noticeable, but it will also leave your skin feeling stronger and deeply rejuvenated.
Unlike aloe vera and green tea extracts, grape stem cells aren’t as commonly used in skin care products. That said, if you would like to give this ingredient a try, turn your attention to the VouPre Vita C Serum.
As you can tell from its name, this serum is all about vitamin C. In fact, it contains two forms of the antioxidant. However, it’s also infused with other antioxidant-rich ingredients, including grape stem cells, vitamin A, vitamin E, and a variety of plant oils. Antioxidants always work so much better when combined with other antioxidants, which is how this formula is able to reduce the visibility of fine lines, rebalance how even the skin looks, and hydrate the complexion to give it a beautiful natural glow.
Sweet Almond Oil
While the majority of natural skin care ingredients are available in the form of extracts, there are also a few plant-derived oils that are worth knowing about, one of which is sweet almond oil. It has been used for beautifying purposes for centuries by cultures all over the world, with modern-day science now confirming just how beneficial this ingredient can be.
How? Well, for starters, it’s packed with vitamins, including A and E. As a result, it’s able to help tackle the appearance of aging to smooth and firm up the look of the skin. The particularly high concentration of vitamin E makes this ingredient effective at reducing the appearance of scarring too. Sweet almond oil is also brimming with omega-3 fatty acids, making it great for hydrating and moisturizing the skin.
You’ll find sweet almond oil in a few different VouPre skin care products, including our bestselling Ageless Solution Syringe. This formula immediately diminishes the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, leaving the skin looking noticeably younger.
CBD
CBD has been making waves in various industries lately, and skin care is no exception. Some people avoid it because of how it comes from the cannabis plant, but CBD skin care will definitely not give you the associated ‘high’.
Instead, apply CBD to your skin and you’ll be able to counter a variety of visible skin concerns. For starters, it reduces how oily the skin feels. This means that it can help to prevent the appearance of breakouts. It also soothes the feeling of inflammation, making it great for people dealing with itching, eczema, or psoriasis. Even better, studies confirm that its antioxidant properties can minimize the look of aging too, making this ingredient a wonderful all-rounder.
You’ll find CBD (cannabidiol) in our Cannabis Caviar Transforming Mask. It’s a clay-based mask, meaning that it’s great for detoxifying the feel of the skin. However, unlike many of the other clay masks out there that can dry out the complexion, this one is loaded with hydrating compounds. They ensure that the skin looks soft and dewy after every use.
Resveratrol Extract
While many natural skin care ingredients come from a single source, resveratrol can be obtained from a variety of different foods. Some of the best sources include grapes, bilberries, and blueberries.
Resveratrol’s biggest draw is its antioxidant content. It’s able to improve the quality of the complexion in numerous ways, from boosting how dense the skin feels to giving the skin a deep radiance.
Resveratrol is often consumed as an oral supplement. However, the best way for your skin to benefit from the ingredient is through topical application. Just like when it comes to other antioxidant-rich skin care ingredients, look for products that combine resveratrol with other antioxidants.
The VouPre Dark Circle Eye Cream is a good example. It brings resveratrol together with caffeine, chitosan, and vitamin C. This enables the cream to refresh and energize the appearance of the skin around the eyes, leaving it looking brighter and plumper.
Coffee Seed Extract
Caffeine is an ingredient that’s often used in skin care products, but coffee seed extract isn’t seen quite as much. However, this ingredient not only contains caffeine, but it also boasts a variety of proteins, polysaccharides, minerals, and lipids.
This makes coffee seed extract a great ingredient to use for countering the look of oxidative stress in the skin. It gives you all of the benefits of caffeine, plus so much more.
Where can you find skin care containing coffee seed extract? Our favorite formula is the Detoxifying Thermal Mask. It combines coffee seed extract with several of the other natural skin care ingredients that we’ve featured above. These include grape stem cells, aloe vera, and sweet almond oil.
Cucumber Fruit Extract
At some point in life, most people experiment with placing cucumber slices over their eyes to relieve the feeling of puffiness. It’s a trick that usually works well, but have you ever wondered why that is?
It’s all down to the lipids, proteins, and vitamins that the ingredient contains. These enable it to soothe and refresh the complexion, while also diminishing the look of damage. Of course, cucumbers are known for their high water content too. This makes the fruit extract extremely hydrating.
While you could go ahead and continue using cucumber slices on your eyes, this is an ingredient that the rest of your face would benefit from too, and our Hydrating Toner makes this easy. Infused with cucumber, aloe, and chamomile, apply this toner to your skin after cleansing. It will immediately refresh and revitalize your complexion.
Seaweed Extract
Seaweed is loved for how it is extremely nutrient-dense. In fact, it contains more than 10 times the amount of minerals than land-based plants, and your skin loves them all.
At the same time, seaweed is known for being incredibly hydrating. The result is an ingredient that supports the appearance in just about every way. It’ll soothe the feeling of sensitivities, plump up your complexion, and reduce the look of aging and damage.
That’s why we’ve infused seaweed extract into our Aqua Nano Cream, which you’ll find in our Aqua Collection. This lightweight moisturizer highlights the hydrating properties of seaweed extract by leaving the skin feeling silky soft and touchably smooth.
Shea Butter
So far, we’ve featured a variety of plant extracts and plant oils. However, natural skin care ingredients can also come in the form of butters, with shea butter being a famous example.
Derived from the nuts of the shea tree, this ingredient is thick and velvety in its raw form. It’s often used in this way for its moisturizing properties. It’s packed with fatty acids, making it great for boosting the skin’s moisture content. However, many find pure shea butter to be too thick and heavy on the skin. This is why we lightened it up by combining it with hydrating humectants when we formulated our Revitalizing Night Cream.
This formula still feels exquisitely luxurious and rich, but it won’t weigh your skin down. Instead, it will deeply moisturize to give you a soft and supple, yet beautifully matte, finish.
Adding Natural Skin Care Ingredients to Your Routine
With natural ingredients becoming so popular, you can now find them in such a variety of different skin care products. They really do offer up some amazing benefits. To experience these as much as possible, try to incorporate botanicals into every stage of your skin care routine.
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