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Beauty tip:grapes

Beauty tip:grapes

We already knew that a daily (limited) amount of red wine is good for us. But grape seeds and skins are also packed with good substances for the skin:flavonoids, tannins and polyphenols.

It is especially the latter that the free radicals (which cause aging and sagging of the skin), as recently proved by the University of Bordeaux, located in one of the largest wine regions in the world. They enhance the effect of other antioxidants such as vitamin E , and also the collagen and elastin fibers to reinforce.

The French brand Caudalie , which was one of the first cosmetic brands to use grapes , has recently been (again) for sale in pharmacies.