Red Wine and Your Skin

[Hyacinth]

Some claim that red wine is good for your skin because it is rich in antioxidants. In fact, certain spas have added 'red wine soak or bath' to their list of body and beauty treatments. However, studies have yet to be conducted to look into the effectiveness of the antioxidants found in red wine when applied to the skin.

 

[Cobbler]

All you have to do really is look at skin creams and see what type, or how much/little, of antioxidants they have in them. If an antioxidant is good for your skin, I don't see how the application can make a difference.

 

[Lyra]

The way you apply or take things does make a difference as to how they are used in the body. Using red wine topically sounds like a gimmick to me. I've never heard anything to suggest the antioxidants in red wine can be infected through the skin. For that matter, do we even know that antioxidants can be absorbed via other beauty products?