How plants protect your skin from sun damage and why
Plants don’t burn in the sun thanks to the sunscreening mechanism they evolved. Eating plants rich in photoprotective molecules allows your body to protect your skin from sun damage. Here is how:
Cold-Pressed versus CO2 Extracted? What you need to know
The same seed, different extraction methods, two very different results. Can you work out which raspberry seed oil was cold pressed and which was extracted by CO2?
The sunscreening properties of plants
The sunscreening properties of plants Do plant oils and extracts protect from UVA and UVB? To what extent? This article shares what spectral analysis studies reveal about plant based photoprotection. One of the most common questions asked regarding the oils I...Why and how plant compounds protect from UV
But you may wonder: why do molecules absorb light at different wavelengths? The answer has to do with already mentioned rule; that it is the structure of the molecule that dictates its function. But what does it mean in reality?
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