2 Green Tea Protects Skin
Research shows that drinking green tea or placing green tea bags over your skin may help protect it from the sun’s ultraviolet rays, Moore says. This may be due in part to the extract epigallocatechin gallate, which showed promise against skin cancer in recent lab tests at the University of Strathclyde. Researchers treated human skin tumors with the extract for a month, at the end of which 40 percent of the tumors had disappeared and an additional 30 percent had shrunk.
In another study recently published in the Journal of Nutrition, researchers in Germany found that women who drank about six cups of green tea per day had less reddening of their skin when exposed to a solar simulator than those who did not. Unfortunately, preventing wrinkles is not among the tea’s benefits.