Spotlight On: Green Tea


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Green tea extract is quickly becoming one of the most common ingredients in skin care formulations, like in Replenix Topix Cream or Esteé Lauder Daywear (shown above). But how effective is green tea in topical moisturizers? Where does green tea come from? Green tea comes from the steaming and drying of the tea plant Camellia sinesis. Polyphenol EGCG as a Potent Antioxidant in Skin Care Green tea contains the polyphenol epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG), which has been shown to have remarkable preventive effects against photocarcinogenesis... read more