Intuitive skincare is slow, natural, and gentle. That doesn’t mean, however, that it’s not powerful in fighting against bacteria, toxins, and free radicals to bring you fresh, healthy skin. Impurities like free radicals can cause damage to your skin, but a thoughtful skincare routine can help neutralize threats. Beautiful balance can be restored within your skin if you know how to protect your skin. But, do you know what you’re protecting against? There are plenty of skincare terms that may be unfamiliar to you, so to bring it back to the basics, let’s talk about free radicals, and how they can affect your skin, as well as how to protect your skin from their damaging effects.
What Are Free Radicals?
In short, free radicals are unstable atoms that can cause illness, can lead to aging, and can damage cells in the body. These unstable atoms are linked to aging because they break down cells over time. This eventually leads to a degenerative process where aging causes the body to lose its ability to fight against free radicals, causing more free radicals, deterioration, and accelerated aging. As a result, our bodies, including our skin, ages quicker. Free radicals can contribute to skin concerns such as wrinkles, fine lines, dullness, etc. It’s a vicious cycle but can be slowed with the right care.
Your lifestyle can impact the production of free radicals within your body and can eventually affect the health of your skin. For example, smoking, fried foods, or exposure to toxins can accelerate the production of free radicals and aging. This is why it’s so important to care for yourself with a healthy lifestyle and the right skincare products to help your skin fight against free radicals and their effects.
How can Antioxidants Help Protect Against Free Radicals?
First and foremost, let’s define antioxidants. Antioxidants are molecules that prevent the oxidation of other molecules and lessen or completely prevent the negative effects of free radicals. Antioxidants are naturally occurring and can be found in berries, citrus fruits, green vegetables, carrots, and so much more. Eating a healthy, diverse diet is a great way to help your body fight against the effects of free radicals, but other products such as wildcrafted, natural skincare products can help protect against those effects on the skin.
For anti-aging properties, skincare products like those from Good Medicine Beauty Lab include natural plant ingredients that contain antioxidants, protecting the skin from damaging free radicals. Here are some of the clean, all-natural ingredients we use to bring powerful antioxidants to your skin:
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Wild Chaparral - Chaparral is a powerful, desert ingredient with an array of skin-healing properties helping your skin heal from the inside out.
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Desert Sage - Another natural ingredient bringing desert magic to your skincare routine, wild desert sage is a powerful antioxidant. It’s also rich in vitamin C, making for a powerful, free-radical-preventing combination.
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Organic Cucumber - Freshly juiced and with no harmful additives, this ingredient soothes and refreshes while bringing antioxidants straight to your skin.
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Coenzyme Q10 - This is a gentle but mighty antioxidant ingredient that helps fight free radicals in the skin while promoting collagen production. This reduces fine lines and wrinkles and helps keep the skin soft and supple. Free radicals are no match for coenzyme 10.
Learn more about our amazing, wildcrafted ingredients and what makes them so special on our site. Our intuitive formulas are made by hand with love and loaded with skin-healing ingredients. Each formula is like its own, unique caress from Mother Earth herself, with no harmful additives, toxins, or unnatural ingredients.
The Best Skincare Products to Fight Against Free Radicals
If you’re ready to start your skin-healing, free-radical-fighting skincare journey, these products were crafted for you:
Electric Sky Universal Elixir
It’s exactly how it sounds. Electric Sky really is a Universal Elixir. It’s a versatile, potent, and magical skin oil, adding its healing and rejuvenating properties to any skincare routine. It’s tiny but mighty and includes a gentle blend of ingredients like activated oxygen, prickly pear, and hemp seed oil, among many more, for a robust and antioxidant-rich oil. This silky, luxurious oil will give you a youthful glow, especially when paired with our other superhero skincare products.
Honey Dew Youth Nectar
Speaking of a youthful glow, Honey Dew is the serum of our dreams. It’s a light and refreshing formula that includes natural antioxidant ingredients like grapefruit, freshly squeezed limes, and cucumber. This serum is expertly combined to create a harmonious balance of vibrancy and healing. Honey Dew creates an all-day shield to protect against free radical damage, leaving you with an unmistakably dewy, bright complexion.
Honey Bee Revelation Mask
Did you know wild, raw honey is a powerful antioxidant that can fight against free radical damage? Honey Bee Revelation Mask is a luxuriously thick and sweet celebration of our honeybee friends and their powerful honey. It’s a rejuvenating mask that penetrates deep with antioxidant and antibacterial properties without suffocating the skin. This product helps to reveal a new, refreshed layer of skin with deep hydration and a smooth finish. It’s a scrumptious and rich treatment that’s so good you could almost eat it.
Rain Replenishing Oil Cleanser
Rain is like a desert storm in a bottle. This intuitive mix of oils replenishes and restores your skin, cleansing and detoxifying with every application. Rain Replenishing Oil Cleanser is a rich cloud of expertly blended oils that work wonders when drizzled and massaged into the skin. Like a refreshing desert storm, remove excess dirt and grime to make room for renewal and hydration.
Our products are wildcrafted and include only organic, certified organic, all-natural, and bioavailable ingredients. They come from generations of ancient desert wisdom, bringing you a piece of our home to your skin for the ultimate healing from the inside out. These formulas are created to seamlessly adapt to your unique body with enhanced antioxidant qualities, among many more benefits. Ready to join our tribe of intuitive skincare beauties? Get started in our shop today.
