Telegraph Magazine

October 2008

THE COMEBACK

TAKING TEA

Winning back the ground it has lost to coffee, tea has taken on a sohisticated nature lately. Blends that interest me are the antioxidant-rich ones - green and white teas from the Camelia sinensis plant - that benefit skin beauty. You don't often hear surgeons prescribing tea, but I recently discovered that Marko Lens, whose sensible approach to ageing I admire, also advocates tea to preserve skin. His Shiso Detox Infusion (£30 for 20 servings, www.zelens.com) is an antioxidant-rich tea with cleansing Shiso herbs.