Retinol, the active form of vitamin A, is a yellow fat-soluble antioxidant vitamin important vision and bone growth. It belongs to the family of chemical compounds known as retinoids. Retinol is ingested in the form of precursor, animal sources (milk and eggs) contain retinyl esters, whereas plants (carrots, spinach) contain pro-vitamin A carotenoids.

What it does for you?

Retinol helps Plump skin. This is very effective in terms of combating fine lines on the eye area. Retinol also thicken the epidermis. Now it is valuable to the eyes as an area of skin around the eyes is twice as thick as the skin on the face. It is very sensitive and have less ability to produce collagen to smooth skin. Retinol also helps improve the texture and circulation. As we now know, dark eye circles are mostly caused your capillaries around the eye area. These capillaries then easily break and leak blood around the eye area, resulting in red, purple or blue circles under the eyes. They are actually your eye dark circles. Therefore the use of creams, which also has Vitamin C in it as Vitamin C helps reduce the capillaries.

Therefore, retinol, helps blood circulation around the eye, so the blood is not linked in the eye area so easy. In addition to the skin in the eyes is the thinnest, and thus easily damaged Sunday Retinol helps to restore the damaged cells against harmful UV radiation.

Here are some good food, a rich source of retinol:
Sweet potatoes
Carrots
Kapusta, cooked
Mango
Turnips Greens
Spinach, raw
Papaya
Pepper
Apricot
Melounu
Milk, Fat Free
Romaine lettuce
Eggs, large
Milk, whole
Tomato, raw
Broccoli
Green pepper
Orange