Try This Cheap and Tasty Sun Wrinkle Fighter

The Bali sun means lots of fun, Indonesia straddles the equator, which we love, but does your skin? Keeping it healthy is an issue, well now there is simple healthy way to limit the damage the sun can do:

For younger looking skin, skip the high-priced wrinkle creams and invest in a 50-cent can of this: tomato paste.
Eating a little tomato paste every day not only may help your wallet, but a new study suggests that it may give you deep-down 24/7 protection against wrinkles and skin cancer, too.

A Tomato in the Sun
In a small study, people supplemented their normal diets with about 2 1/2 tablespoons of tomato paste mixed with a couple of teaspoons of olive oil every day for 10 weeks while a control group got just the olive oil. The volunteers also sat under a sun lamp at the beginning, middle, and end of the study -- just long enough to lightly sunburn their shoulders. But by week 10, the tomato-paste group showed 40 percent less sun damage than the olive-oil eaters did.

Power in the Paste
Tomatoes are one of the best sources of lycopene around, and scientists speculate that this antioxidant may help to soften some of the sun's damaging effects on skin. Of course, no food can take the place of using good sunscreen and being smart about sun exposure. So use the following tips and advice to keep that face of yours young, fresh, and wrinkle-free:
The best sunscreens are not necessarily the high priced ones. For decent full-body protection, an average-size person needs to apply an ounce of sunscreen. That's the amount that fits in a shot glass . . . and probably a whole lot more than you're using. Which brings us back to the trouble with the pricey stuff: Even fewer people will use a full ounce every day when that amount costs $20. So you can narrow your choices to some of the cheaper products, there are still important decisions to be made. The best ingredient to reach for, especially if you're the impatient type, is an inexpensive product made with zinc oxide. These work immediately, unlike other blocks (called “chemical” blocks) that need at least 15 to 30 minutes to soak into your skin to be effective. Another plus for zinc oxide: It's now made in nanoparticle form, so it doesn't look like it did when you were a kid (in other words, you don't look like you've spread cream cheese on your face). One more plus: Zinc oxide protects against both types of damaging UV rays (UVA and UVB), helping to shield you from skin cancer and wrinkling. Another okay option if your not going to get wet is sunscreen containing titanium dioxide. These also reflect the Indonesians sun's harmful rays, so you avoid sun damage. But the downside is that these titanium blends often turn white, making you look ghostlike when your in the water