Benefits Of Using Gold For Facial Skin Care

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JAKARTA - Gold is not only a precious metal, but also has an effect on giving benefits to the skin. Today, gold has been added to skin care in the form of serums, oils, and even eye masks.

The question is is gold safe to use as a skin care? Gold has been used as an anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, and anti-aging ingredient for decades.

Reporting from Fimela, Tuesday, August 31, gold is a chemical element and a precious metal that can be presented in two main media when used as skin care products, namely colloidal gold and 24-karat pure gold powder. Colloidal gold is also known as nanogold or nanoparticles which is very stable and can easily handle target cells, due to its small size and large outer surface, shape and crystallinity.

Basically, gold nanoparticles can increase the effectiveness of the benefits of gold, because it can penetrate deeper into the skin. Clinical studies on gold as a skin care are quite limited, but there is some promising data on the benefits of gold for the skin.

Gold can help other skin care ingredients be more effective. Gold can act as a carrier to help penetrate other active substances.

According to a study in the Journal of Pharmaceutics, skin care using nanogold can improve skin firmness and elasticity, and delay the skin aging process. Gold's properties can help protect the skin from environmental pollution and chronic sun damage, both of which can wreak havoc on the skin and accelerate the appearance of aging.

Gold nanoparticles can accelerate wound healing mechanism, improve blood circulation, and provide antiseptic. But remember, like any other skin care ingredient, gold has the potential to be irritating to some people.

Make sure you do a patch test of each new product on a small area of skin and monitor it for a few days, watching for signs of irritation. Have you ever tried skin care products with gold?