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postheadericon What are Carotenoids?

Caretenoids

What beta-carotene:

• Are vitamins from plants that when ingested with food in our bodies are changed into vitamin A.

What are carotenoids?

• Turn on the skin’s defense system, promoting their protection against ultraviolet rays.

• The beta-carotene, by itself, have antioxidant properties that are useful to help fight free radical activity and prevent the damage they can do in our body, also stimulate the immune response and protect the skin redness and damage by ultraviolet radiation.

• It also stimulates the formation of melanin and therefore help us to get dark.

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