Vitamin C In Skin Care
Definitely rating high up on my list of effective skin care ingredients, Vitamin C is one of those ingredients that comes with considerable scientific evidence to support its use.
When formulated appropriately, Vitamin C delivers two significant skin benefits:
- It stimulates the synthesis of collagen, which forms part of the skin’s supporting network.
- It is an antioxidant, which helps to fight free radical damage associated with skin aging.
These two attributes mean that Vitamin C can help to reduce wrinkles and improve skin’s texture.
What’s even better is that studies have shown that Vitamin C can also:
- Reduce the appearance of skin discolorations
- Strengthen skin’s barrier response and
- Reduce inflammation
It’s an important ingredient to include in any skin care regimen, especially if aging is a concern.
Ascorbic acid is the most widely used form of Vitamin C in skin care, but it is highly unstable. For that reason, look for stabilized forms including L-ascorbic acid, magnesium ascorbyl phosphate, tetrahexyldecyl ascorbate, ascorbyl palmitate and ascorbyl glucosamine.
Look for Vitamin C in a wide range of products such as:
- La Roche Posay Active C or Redermic
- Neostrata Skin Brightener or Neostrata Vitamin C Concentrate
- La Roche Posay Derm AOX
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March 10, 2011 @ 10:18 pmThe lens of the eye and active tissues in the body require greater concentration of vitamin C. The level of vitamin C in blood was 0.5 milligrams per deciliter, while in the adrenal and pituitary, the level is 100 times that concentration. In the liver, spleen, and the lens of the eye that focuses at least a factor of 20 to maintain these levels in these tissues, the body must generate huge amounts of energy to extract the vitamin C in the blood against the formidable gradient. Maintain blood levels of vitamin C increases, which help the body to concentrate of vitamin C in the active tissues, reduce the gradient. That’s probably why doses of 1,000 milligrams is necessary to increase the vitamin C content of the lens.