Whether you are female or male, beauty treatment is all the rage. Men and women spend more time to look after the feeling of their look themselves. Apart from beauty treatment and exercise, diet is also a commonly effective method to improve skin problem area and make you feeling good. Tea is one of common cost effective beauty treatment. Let’s chat more about tea today
Tea-drinking is a beauty treatment, isn’t it?
Fermentation
The answer is “Yes”. Tea has the substances of antioxidant that helps prevent oxidisation. The power of oxidisation prevention depends on the types of teas. Generally, the polyphenols in tea is transformed to some substances such as theflavin and thearubigins during the fermentation process. Moreover, Amino acid and vitamin are also reduced. Different types of tea are produced with the different degree of fermentation. Therefore, the fermentation process affects the amount of antioxidant substance contained in the tea leaves, because it is a chemical reaction affecting the substance composition, the smell, the mouthfeel and the aftertaste of tea.
Types Of Tea
If we are talking about the power of whitening and anti-wrinkling, green tea and white tea may be the strongest among varied types of tea. Green tea is classified as “unfermented tea”. Personally, I like the creamy mouthfeel and the aftertaste of Fancl green tea power and Kirkland green tea bought at Costco supermarket. White tea also has anti-oxidants, that can slow damage to cells caused by free radicals. White peony, “shou mei” and “white silver needle” are common white tea in the market. They are named as “beauty tea” as they not only slow down the ageing process but also help relax.
In the tea world, the strength of antioxidant power is unfermented tea, semi-fermented tea, full fermented tea and black tea in order. Puer is a black tea, which belongs to post-fermented tea. Hence, in the market , the price of Puer is directly proportional to its age.
Puer is also a good choice for beauty because it can help digestion and keeping us fit.
In additional to the beauty power, tea is also good for health. It helps eliminate fatigue, relax, clear heat, relieve headache, help digestion and so on. Having a copy of nice tea daily is not only refreshing but also healthy.
Among a variety of tea, I love Oolong tea. Its taste is sweet and the after-taste make people creamy. The production method of Oolong tea is a combination of green and black tea methods, resulting in a mellow taste. The higher mountain the Oolong tea leave come from, the more the mellow taste.
Summer is coming. Tea is a one of the best summer drink as well.
Note: Image by Jill Wellington
