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You can add liquid green tea extract to pretty much every product we saw yesterday, with the exception of the mineral make-up powders. The liquid extract can vary between suppliers, so check with your favourite shop to find out how they suggest you use it. I am using the liquid green tea extract from the...
There are a few ways we can get the awesome power of green tea extract into our creations – powdered green tea extract, liquid green tea extract, and green tea butter or camellia oil. Today we’ll take a look at using the powdered extract!You can add green tea extract to any creation containing water. To...
After three days of information about green tea, surely we’ve covered everything? What more could we include? We’ve covered caffeine, proanthocyanins, and tannins and catechins. Are there still more interesting things to be found in green tea? We find selenium behaving as an anti-oxidant and anti-inflammatory in green tea. It is a co-factor in the...
Yep, I’m still going on about the awesome power of green tea extract, but it really does deserve four posts! We’ve already looked at caffeine and proanthocyanins, and tomorrow we’ll take a look at the other things found in green tea. Today – tannins and catechins! Green tea extract is filled to the brim with...
Green tea is so chock full of awesomeness, I had to write a second post (and there’ll be a third and fourth post) to get all the awesome stuff in! Green tea contains up to 30% polyphenolic compounds (of the dry weight) in the form of proanthocyanidins, tannins, catechins, and so on. Let’s take a...