Shereene Idriss argues peptides alone won't save your skin without antioxidants to fight environmental damage and aging. She names four essentials: Vitamin C for brightening, Glutathione as the master antioxidant, Niacinamide to calm inflammation, and Coenzyme Q10 for cellular energy.
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You are all obsessed with peptides, but you have no idea what an antioxidant even is. Huge, huge miss. First of all, did you know that the master antioxidant is quite literally a tripeptide? It's both. Why the hell should you even care what antioxidants do? Because you want to have healthy skin. Without antioxidants, your skin is literally rusting in real time. Pollution, stress, a bad breakup, no sleep, All of that shit is speeding up the rust fast and it's chewing up through your collagen and showing up as fine lines, crepiness, and wrinkles, not to mention dullness and dark spots. Antioxidants are the squeeze of a lemon on an apple slice that's going to block it from browning, shutting that damage down before it actually happens. Here are the 4 major antioxidants that matter. Vitamin C, the famous one, the brightening one, the one in your orange juice that you learn about back in the '80s, that's used to help build collagen and great for daily defense. But it's not the whole team. She's Jalen Bronson, but she needs the backups. 2. Glutathione. This is the master antioxidant. It's gonna make your vitamin C work harder and smarter for you, and it is the one that deserves the hype to even out your dark spots and your discoloration. She's the one to know. 3. The politically correct one of the group, niacinamide, that's gonna calm things down. And 4, coenzyme Q10, which is gonna fuel your cells as you age because guess what? We're all going to run out of gas as we get wiser, hopefully, in life. So stop pinning everything on a single ingredient. Your skin runs like a team, and most of you are only relying on a single player.
