Here is a list of natural ingredients and their uses and benefits as anti-aging treatments, according to the source BioYoung:[1]
- Rosemary and eucalyptus essential oils:
- Can improve hair on cellular and hormonal levels.
- Avocado oil and licorice:
- Can help tired skin.
- Almond oil and dill essential oil mix:
- Can increase elastin in sagging skin.
- Fenugreek and fennel powder:
- Can be added to liquid and taken daily.
- Licorice:
- Can be extracted and added to an avocado oil base, plus a fennel, aniseed, ylang-ylang, and dill essential oil combination blended with a cocoa butter or avocado oil base, and used on the face, hair, and body.
- Anti-inflammatory and prevents the free radical species from forming when skin is exposed to ultraviolet radiation.
- Chamomile:
- An herb from which allantoin is isolated and named a "cosmeceutical".
- Potent anti-inflammatory substances that can be used topically to help anti-age your skin.
- Onions:
- Contain quercetin, termed a "nutraceutical".
- Dill seed essential oil, or helichrysum essential oil:
- Applying a treatment containing either of these oils directly in the affected area should make a huge difference to varicose veins.
- Chamomile and helichrysum oils: Potent anti-inflammatory substances that can be used topically to help anti-age your skin.
- Rosemary:
- The primary antioxidant ingredient in Queen of Hungary water.
- Amla:
- Cooking it in coconut oil enhances the effectiveness of both ingredients.
- Coconut oil:
- Performs its magic through its antioxidant capacity, stimulating fibroblasts.
- Red palm oil and rice bran oil:
- Highly effective anti-aging skin and hair solutions.
- Natural, safe substances protect your skin from sun damage, repair existing damage, and even prevent the dangerous cancerous changes that are associated with sunbathing.
- Broccoli, cabbage, or brussels:
- Proteasome-stimulating foods.
- Red palm oil, tomato paste, rice bran oil, gelatin, squalene, aloe vera, honey:
- Natural, safe substances protect your skin from sun damage, repair existing damage, and even prevent the dangerous cancerous changes that are associated with sunbathing.
- Ferulic acid:
- Acts as a UV absorber, stops the formation of pyrimidine dimers, stops the activation of matrix metalloproteinases by sunlight (preventing collagen destruction), controls the browning reaction (glycation), and prevents the formation of AGEs. It is also anti-inflammatory.
- Rice bran oil:
- Decreases skin's absorption of ultraviolet radiation by 30 percent.
- Gotu Kola:
- A potent anti-ager that affects stem cell stimulation.
- Aloe vera:
- Protects the skin from sun damage by preventing the activation of metalloproteinases and free radicals.
- Black cumin oil:
- Highly effective at inhibiting elastase, the enzyme responsible for the marked decrease in elasticity in the skin following sun exposure and during chronological aging.
- Comfrey:
- Can be used to make a very simple stem-cell-stimulating lotion.
- Prunes, onions, fenugreek, fennel, maca, boron, fennel essential oil:
- Can help in reversing and preventing bone loss.
- Olive oil:
- Contains hydroxytyrosol, which revs up the mitochondria in your fat cells, making them far more active and energetic, ensuring that calories are utilized rather than stored.
- Ginkgo:
- Powder produces fat-cutting, muscle-enhancing effects.
- Rosemary and eucalyptus globulus essential oils, lard, onion, calcium pantothenate:
- Restore youthful hair.
- Honey, bee pollen, lanolin, sarsaparilla, olive oil:
- Restore the deep fat layer and support for a more rounded look.
- Royal jelly:
- Thought to extend the lifespan of the queen bee and has also been shown to increase collagen production in human skin.
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Roxy Dillon, Bio-Young: Get Younger at a Cellular and Hormonal Level (Atria Books, 2017). ↩︎