Sunscreen and antioxidants are the perfect sun protection partners. Summer unofficially starts this month and there’s no better time to talk about the role that each of these ingredients play in keeping our skin healthy. Sunscreen and antioxidants are two halves of an equation that add up to maximum protection against sun damage and premature… Read more »
Tag: free radicals

Here’s How To Protect Skin From Free Radical Damage
Free radical damage isn’t as scary as it sounds! While it can be harmful, there are many ways to protect your skin. Learn how in this post. Buy Bespoke Vitamin C Serum Here’s How a Free Radical Can Damage Skin If you’ve ever cut into an apple and watched it turn brown after awhile, you’ve… Read more on Apothekari »

This One Ingredient Makes Your Sunscreen Work Better
If you’ve been converted to using sunscreen year-round (bravo!), you’ll be glad to hear that this one ingredient will make your sun protection product work even better. We’re talking about antioxidants and how they work hand-in-hand with your favorite sunscreen to fortify your skin against the harmful rays of the sun, 365 days a year…. Read more »

This Serum Can Fight Free Radicals
Learn how to fight free radicals, molecules which can damage skin, by adding this serum to your daily skincare routine. Buy Bespoke Vitamin C Serum Purchase Apothekari Skincare at our online store PhaMix.com What Are Free Radicals? ‘Free radicals’ AKA Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) impact our health, including that of our skin. They are created… Read more on Apothekari »

3 Essential Skin Care Products for Summer
3 essential skin care products, found in our Anti-Aging Set, are important to protect and perfect skin this summer and year-round. Buy Anti-Aging Set Buy Apothekari products at our online store Phamix.com Protect Skin & Prevent Damage Hands up if you love the sun! Sunshine and the sun’s heat make us feel good. The sun’s… Read more on Apothekari »

Summer BFF’s: Sunscreen and Antioxidants
Now that we’ve hit August and the height of summer, now is the perfect time for a reminder that sunscreen and antioxidants are as much summer BFF’s as shorts and sandals. While most of us are aware of the importance of using a well-formulated broad-spectrum sunscreen with effective sun filters daily, we may not yet… Read more »

Apothekari Bespoke Vitamin C Serum – New Formulation
After many months of testing, testing and more testing, we are proud to finally unveil the new formulation of Apothekari Bespoke Vitamin C Serum! We promise you that this is not a case where you’ll be lamenting the old version! Just when you thought we could not pack any more actives into the bottle, we’ve… Read more »

Step 2 to Great Skin: Prevent
After cleansing your skin, it’s time to move on to Step 2: Prevent. You’re never too young or too old to aim for great skin, and with consistency and persistence following a simple 4 step routine, it’s within everyone’s reach. Skin damage can occur as a result of many factors such as free radicals, UV… Read more »

How To Protect Your Skin Against Pollution
Daily living involves many assaults upon your skin and while we tend to focus a lot on sun protection, other factors, like pollution, are also at play. Researchers are increasingly paying attention to pollution and how long-term exposure to pollution plays a major role in premature signs of aging. Pollution is a global danger and… Read more »

Antioxidants: Why Two (or More) Are Better Than One
If you’re serious about skin care, you know that antioxidants are one of the cornerstones of a good regimen. And while most antioxidants can be used as a single agent, studies have shown that they work best as a team. You only have to look to nature to see that plants, including fruits and vegetables,… Read more »

Tiron: A New Super Antioxidant?
Hot on the heels of a recent study linking sunscreen use with young and healthy looking skin, Newcastle University researchers have singled out Tiron, which they claim offers complete skin cell protection against UVA sun damage as well as free radical damage. In a world filled with concerns about skin cancer and anti-aging, these findings… Read more »

Ferulic Acid Skin Care
Ferulic acid is a potent plant antioxidant that has been finding its way into a variety of skin care treatments over the past few years. Found in the bran of rice, wheat and oats, it is also present in coffee, apple, artichokes and peanuts. In plants, it plays a key role in the plant’s self-preservation… Read more on Apothekari »

Spin Trap: The ‘Intelligent’ Antioxidant
You may have heard about Spin Trap, a novel skin care ingredient being included in a range of skin care treatments today. Also known as Phenyl t-Butylnitrone or PBN, it is a highly active oxygen and nitrogen complex. Spin traps are compounds that have the ability to stabilize or ‘trap’ free radicals thereby reducing the… Read more »

Free Radicals
What exactly are free radicals? We’ve all heard of them and how they can damage cells in our bodies. We also know, in some vague way, that antioxidants help counteract the potential for damage. So why are we looking for ‘anti-oxidants’ and not ‘anti-radicals’ in our skin care products? The answer lies in how a… Read more »

Carnosine – What Can It Do For Your Skin?
Carnosine, not to be confused with carnitine, is a dipeptide (protein compound) that has a number of antioxidant properties and may be increasingly found in a range of skin care preparations. Naturally found in high concentrations in muscles and brain tissue, carnosine is backed by research to support its ability to scavenge reactive oxygen species… Read more »