NaturaLift MD Review Blog

Vitamin E (Natural Alpha Tocopherol & Tocotrienols)

Natural vitamin E (alpha tocopherol and tocotrienols) is essential for the health and protection of the skin. It is a lipid-soluble antioxidant. The skin contains many forms of fat, including cell membranes. These skin fats are subject to severe stress, including peroxidation from free radicals. Vitamin E:

• Reduces roughness.
• Decreases length and depth of wrinkles.
• Is a potent fat soluble antioxidant.
• Decreases severity of UV-irradiation caused wrinkles.
• Reduces harmful collegenase, the enzyme that eats” collagen.
• Absorbs UV-B sunlight to protect the skin.

Note: Topical application increases skin vitamin E levels up to 62 times. Also, the tocotrienol form of vitamin E is 50 times more powerful than its other forms.

Vitamin E must be completely replaced on the surface of the skin, as well as in the epidermal and dermal layers. This cannot be accomplished through diet alone. Although orally-ingested vitamin E is essential for health, it is not sufficient to replace vitamin E needed in the skin to prevent lipid peroxidation. Topical therapy with vitamin E is essential to protect, preserve, and heal the skin, through daily use.

Synthetic forms of vitamin E are cheaper and less effective. These are a mixture of the biologically active D and the biologically inactive L forms. The D and L forms are mirror image shapes of the same compound (an example of chiral technology). But the body only uses the D form. This is true for both the tocopherol and tocotrienol compounds, but not for synthetic tocopherol acetate. Although tocopherol acetate is the most commonly used form of vitamin E, it has the lowest conversion rate to alpha-tocopherol than all other varieties.