There is often a lot of talk about how coffee affects the body, sometimes negative but lately this isn’t the case.   Some studies show that it can protect against heart disease and stroke, diabetes, some cancers and Parkinson’s disease.  All good news since most of us enjoy drinking coffee!  Now studies have shown that caffeine may reduce the risk of skin cancer either by drinking a cup of caffeinated coffee a day or applying caffeine directly to the skin raising the prospect of adding caffeine to sunscreen or products designed to repair sun-damaged skin.

We're pretty excited about this news here at La Casa, because we've been making our own personal caffeine fuelled skincare for years - no wonder we look so good!!!

We use coffee oil because of it’s moisturising, softening, nourishing and toning qualities but the SPF is a bonus!  Coffee seeds in general contain a significant amount of tannins which offer astringent properties found to be valuable in applications for oily skin. Green coffee seeds also have antioxidant, smoothing, restructuring and regenerating qualities which make it ideal for mature and damaged skin and for restructuring hair care products for dry and damaged hair… all this and now possibly sun protection.

So why do so many people still think coffee is unhealthy?  Go figure!

Source: The recent study was funded by the US National Institutes of Health, and it was conducted by a number of medical and research organisations. The study was published in the peer-reviewed scientific journal, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA (PNAS). Scientists have worked out how caffeine might protect against certain skin cancers – a finding that could lead to better sunscreens.