Your guide to beauty jargon

12 January 2015
By Fashion Quarterly

Do you know your coenzymes from your collagen, your stem cells from your GAGs? We decipher beauty jargon to help you find the best product for your skin.

ANTIOXIDANTS

Antioxidants

How it works: Antioxidants are molecules that enhance the skin’s barrier by stimulating blood flow in the skin, which can help encourage new cells. They protect against environmental aggressors like the sun and pollution as they limit the production of free radicals, meaning they work to improve the skin’s overall appearance.

You need it if: You live in the big smoke, worship the sun, avoid wearing an SPF or you tend to stress about life in general. So, pretty much all of us.

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