Beauty Beverage

Can quenching your thirst actually make you look younger?

Some new drinks on the market contain ingredients that are good for your skin.

"Basically, it's hard to get ingredients in through your skin so if you drink them some of the ingredients have been shown to get to your skin from the inside out," said Dr. Leslie Baumann.

Baumann is known as the "skin guru."

She is also Director of Cosmetic Dermatology at the University of Miami.

Preventing and treating sun damage is her focus.

Strong UV rays cause inflammation, which can lead to skin cancer and wrinkles.

Antioxidants found in drinks can help fight that.

"Green tea is the most well studied of the antioxidants," Baumann said. "We know that if you drink green tea you will get high green tea levels in your skin. We know that it prevents inflammation from the sun and because of that we believe that it prevents aging. I personally drink green tea three times a day, but a little side warning, it can make you bruise easier."

Green tea is the main ingredient in Coca Cola's new product Enviga.

Pomegranate and acai berry are also powerful antioxidants now found in many beverages.

Also new, a line of water just for the skin called Borba.

"We know it's important to drink water. We want to be hydrated, so why not drink a water that has other beneficial ingredients in it?" Baumann said.

Baumann said avoid drinks with a lot of sugar because sugar can cause "glycation," a new skin buzzword.

"Glycation means when you take a sugar and bind it to something.  Collagen is a protein so when sugar binds to collagen it doesn't work as well.  That causes you to age," she said.

Anti-aging substances in wine can help fight fine lines.

Too much alcohol can actually be aging, but one glass of red wine can give your skin the benefits found in grape skins.