Best quality white tea is organic white silver needle tea - Bai Hao Yinzhen
White tea prevents wrinkles
Research from Kingston University demonstrates white tea helps ameliorate age-related wrinkles. White tea inhibited the activity of collagenase by 89% and elastase by 87%. The potent anti-collagenase and anti-elastase activity is attributed to the high concentration of epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) in white tea. White tea is clearly the superior plant extract for anti-elastase and anti-collagenase activity
White Tea Prevents Wrinkles
White tea prevents oxidation and the formation of free radicals
White tea also had high anti-oxidant activity and was able to inhibit the formation of free radicals by 88%. White tea (and green tea) had about the same and the highest level of superoxide scavenging activity compared to the other extracts.
White tea protects against the UV damaging effects of the sun
White tea was found to guard Langerhans cells from cell death. Langerhans cells are immune cells that are located in the outer layer of the epidermis and are the first to recognize foreign substances, such as, microbes and cancerous proteins. Lagerhans cells are extremely sensitive to UV radiation.
Topical application of green and white tea extracts provides protection from solar-simulated ultraviolet light in human skin.
