green tea articles ↓

Thanks for the tip from Dan, this very interesting paper has recently surfaced. The researchers found that simply placing cotton pads that had been soaked in green tea on the skin for 20 minutes improved the outcome of red light treatments. The author suggests that the scavenging capability of green tea extends the `action spectrum’ of phototherapy. If this complementary action …

This just published paper is suggesting that the topical application of polyphenol antioxidants (aka green tea) post IPL treatment resulted in more hydrated skin and reduced oxidative degradation of skin lipids. The authors suggest that this will enhance the effects of the IPL therapy. This post-treatment therapy is in addition to some other recently published research that patients treated immediately after IPL with a …

Phase II management of papulopustular rosacea with 2% green tea extract (-EGCg) in a hydrophilic cream: A placebo-controlled, double-blind study, Tanweer Syed, MD, PhD, San Francisco, CA, United States; Seyed Ahmad, University of California, Berkeley, CA, United States; Amit Bhakhri, University of California, San Francisco, CA, United States

Objective: We sought to evaluate the clinical efficacy, tolerability, safety, and beneficial effects of 2% polyphenone (-EGCg, epigallocatechin …

Extract from Medscape Medical News from WebMD

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/500115
http://my.webmd.com/content/article/101/106044.htm

In a small study 75% funded by Syed Skincare, patients with papulopustular rosacea treated with a cream containing 2% polyphenone (green tea extract) experienced a significant reduction in lesion count compared with patients applying vehicle cream.

Women randomized to the green tea extract cream had a 70% improvement in rosacea compared with women in the vehicle cream group, …