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Vitamin C: The most important active in anti-ageing ritual

What is Vitamin C: 

A lot of Vitamin C is stored in our skin. vitamin C aids in our skin’s natural regeneration process, which helps our body repair damaged skin cells. It can derived from food as well as topically and is a very important part of skin care rituals. 

What is it used for: 

High-quality Vitamin C  has consistently been proven to be the most effective at penetrating the skin barrier. It can be easily coupled with Vitamin C to improve its effectiveness as they together provide double protection against free-radical damage. Vitamin C at 5% is gentle enough for the most sensitive skin. However, if you find your skin overtly sensitive then start by using less amount and slowly increasing the quantity. At up to 20%, it dramatically shows results by brightening and improving skin pigmentation. Vitamin C in skin-care products can come in the form of tetrahexyldecyl ascorbate, magnesium ascorbyl phosphate, and methylsilanol ascorbate. Magnesium ascorbyl phosphate, one of the main vitamin C derivatives used in skin care, decreases transepidermal water loss, allowing skin to better retain moisture making skin well hydrated and dewy. 

Vitamin C prevents sun damage, inhibits skin’s melanin production, which helps prevent photo ageing and pigmentation!

Why we love it:

  1. It helps prevent sun damage as it acts like a barrier against the free radicals that attack cells and collagen. It neautralizes free radicals, reducing inflammation and making skin barrier stronger. You get fewer noticeable wrinkles and less dryness. 
  2. It is non-sensitizing and is well tolerated by all skin types and can be used around eyes safely. 
  3. It helps inhibit skin’s melanin production. Overtly active melanin production leads to dark spots and pigmentation. Continued use of Vitamin C topically can lighten pigmentation while also inhibiting further pigmentation.
  4. It helps minimise under eye circles as it helps healing by regulating inflammation. And smoothening out fine lines by plumping and hydrating the under-eye area.
  5. It helps keep skin strong and firm by activating cells called fibroblasts that make new collagen. This helps with early signs of wrinkles as also evens out skin tone.
  6. It helps heal skin be it cuts, burns or other minor superficial damage. It also helps in the formation of keratinocytes which helps in expediting wound healing.
  7. Its hands down the most potent antioxidant! 
  8. It helps soothe sunburns. 

How do you pick the best Vitamin C product:

The ingredient list will show up L-ascorbic acid as Vitamin C.  Vitamins C and E are a super effective as a pair. The product should be clear as degraded Vitamin C discolours to a cloudy or brown. 

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An important tip here is to read the label correctly in order to gauge how effective the ingredient you are looking for is in the product. The closer an ingredient is to the top of the list on a product label, the higher is  its concentration. So either pick up a single-ingredient product or if its part of a product it should be within the first 3 ingredients. 

Vitamin C tends to degrade very easily. Its important to keep it away from light and direct sunlight. 

 

What’s not to love! Hurray. You can add Vitamin C to any product ritual that you follow as its easy to layer and it being homogenous with all hard working ingredients it generally does not present any irritation or counter reaction. Additionally adding it as a supplement to your diet helps the skin even more! Talk to your doctor today. 

 

For more information on how you can use Vitamin C customized to your skin routine do please write at [email protected]