Juicing for Anti Wrinkle Skin Care

The single most powerful anti wrinkle fighter is a healthy diet rich in vegetables. Vegetables contain an abundance of life-giving nutrients and antioxidants that can rejuvenate the cells in your body and stop and even reverse the aging process. Juicing is the best way to get a high concentration of all these beneficial vitamins that provide protection from the free-radical damage that causes wrinkles, lines and sagging skin.

Topical treatments are helpful, but if you are serious about anti wrinkle skin care, then it’s time to fight wrinkles from the inside out. The following are a few vegetables that are especially helpful in fighting wrinkles:

Carrots juices are rich in alpha carotene which is a natural sun blocker.

Cucumber and bell pepper juices are sources of silicon which can improve the appearance of skin.

Parsnip juice is a well-known beauty tonic for skin, hair, and nails.

Ginger juice is rich in zinc, an important mineral for healing the skin, preventing sunburn, and preventing senile purpura (purple spots under the skin caused by bleeding).

It would be difficult to eat in a day the amount of vegetables that we can drink in a glass of juice. Raw vegetable juices provide a concentration of the most beneficial nutrients that is far superior to any supplement that we can buy. Raw vegetable juices can help you cleanse the body of substances that can cause oxidative stress and cellular damage, resulting in skin that is glowing, evenly-toned, and wrinkle-free. Juicing will help you attain a more youthful appearance while increasing your energy and improving your health. Juicing can beautify your skin.

Raw vegetable juices also supply our body with an abundance of enzymes which are needed to properly digest our food--undigested material can lead to inflammation, weight gain, and wrinkles. Fresh juices are at work in the bloodstream within about 30 minutes of our drinking them because raw foods are broken down into an easily absorbable form. Juice also has plenty of soluble fiber—pectin, gums, and mucilages—that is very beneficial for the intestinal tract.

Juicing can be fun, refreshing, delicious, and easy to incorporate into your daily routine. The Wrinkle Cleanse by Cherie Calbom provides a wealth of information about juicing for anti wrinkle skin care, including easy-to-follow juicing programs that cleanse your body of built-up toxins and restore elasticity to your skin. In just a few weeks, you will begin to see fewer wrinkles and glowing, firmer, more toned skin.

For additional recipes, check out Juicing It: A Gourmets Guide to Natural Drinks by Jane Pettigrew. This guide explains the health benefits of a wide variety of fruits and vegetables, and gives vital information about their nutritional value, origins and contents.

Recommended equipment that you'll need to get started:

Hamilton Beach

Big Mouth Pro Juice Extractor

**Rated Consumer Reports Best Buy. Extracts up to ¼ cup more juice than most other juicers. Convenient and easy to use. Quick to disassemble, clean, and reassemble without tools. Small, about 7 inches wide.

OXO Good Grips Citrus Squeezer

**Helpful if you want to quickly add lemon or lime to your juice.

Prepara Trio-Tri Blade Peeler

**Perfect for peeling ginger, cucumbers, and other vegetables.