Different Vitamins, Different Benefits

Cosmetics producers always insert vitamins to supplement the functions of their products. Identify the function of vitamins is to know what are the uses, sources, other names, and functions internally. Here's an explanation from Rona Berg from his book, Beauty: The New Basic.

Vitamin A
Internally, is required for normal growth, development, and renewal of skin cells, maintaining skin tissue, red blood cells, and maintain the health of the body's immune system. Also as an antioxidant. The best source comes from the egg yolks, milk, fish oil, margarine, and liver. Its function is to skin; flatten the skin color of the face, reduce fine lines, helping epidermal turnover, can make the skin more elastic, often included in recipes to help acne and psoriasis, and help to replace skin cells.
Other Names: Retinol, Retinyl acetate, Retinyl proprionate, Retinyl Palmitate, also known as Retin-A, Renova.

Vitamin B
Required as protein metabolism, build red blood cells, immune function, hormone synthesis. Can be obtained from fish-ikanan, poultry, whole grains, beans, bananas, meat, milk and green vegetables. If applied to the skin, it will help to overcome the expense of oil, and prevent the spending of excess oil, reducing the possibility of brown skin, reducing the possibility of scaly skin and dermatitis, helps the formation of collagen.
Other names: biotin, niacin, or PABA.

Vitamin C
In the body needed to help produce collagen, is not synthesized by the body and must be met through food intake, is able to neutralize free radicals. Obtained from citrus fruits, broccoli, tomatoes, fortified cereals, berries, melons, peppers, and potatoes. Function as a topical drug (ointment), helps heal scars, cuts, and bruises. Protects skin from UVA / UVB, and stimulate collagen formation.
Other names: L-ascorbic acid, magnesium Ascorbyl, Ascorbyl Palmitate, or phosphate.


Vitamin D
The body needs it for the formation of skin cells, helps absorption of calcium. Can be obtained from egg yolks, salmon, liver, herring, and milk that have been fortified. For skin, vitamin D function moisturize and restore skin condition, stimulating the formation of normal skin, often used in medicine to overcome the problem of eczema, dry skin, and diaper rash.
Other Name: Ergocalciferol.

Vitamin E
Required to assist the growth of healthy skin, and is the most stable antioxidants. Can be obtained from vegetable oils, green vegetables, and whole grains. For the skin, if enriched in topical medications, can help restore skin condition, moisturize, reducing the effects of free radicals, address, charred skin, inflammation, cuts, and irritation. Also, can also protect the skin from damage caused by ultraviolet light, helping to flatten the color of the skin, reducing moisture loss.
Other names: Tocopheryl linoleate, tocopheryl acetate, alpha tocopheryl, alpha tocopherol.

Vitamin F
The body needs these fatty acids as the basic foundation of the skin. Can be obtained from flaxseed oil, evening primrose oil, black grapes, safflower oil, borage oil, grains, and linolenic acid. As for skin, useful to help maintain the skin barrier function, as well as acne, and moisturize the skin.
Other names: Lineolic acid.

Vitamin K
Help overcome the blockage of blood. This vitamin is derived from green vegetables. Topically, helps to overcome the bruising, reduce dark circles under the eyes, helps reduce blood vessel rupture former.


source : www.health.kompas.com