Caring For Your Precious Skin With Vitamin C

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Vitamins are essential in keeping the skin healthy. In fact, there are a lot of beauty and skincare products in the market that uses these natural vitamins and minerals as their ingredients. Vitamin C is said to be one of the vitamins that are very beneficial in helping the skin regenerate.

In order to be used on the skin, Vitamin C is transformed to ascorbic acid. This form, however, is pretty unstable and is in fact so hard to be used in cosmetics unless the formulation has other transporting ingredients only in professional grade skin care.

This is perhaps the reason why there are only a few cosmetic products that carry Vitamin C when compared to other vitamins like A and E. Still, chemists are trying to find ways as this form is found to stimulate collagen synthesis on the skin. Unlike other vitamins, it is also able to stay on the skin for as long as three days as well as prevents a reaction called UV immunosuppression, often seen in 90 percent of cancer patients in the country.

In looking for Vitamin C in products, make sure that it contains a stable ascorbic acid form and a low pH level. Ascorbic acid is the gold standard of Vitamin C for skin care products and is in Lighten & Brighten Illuminating Skin Cream.

Highly concentrated products are also recommended. Remember that just because a product advertises Vitamin C on it front level, it does not mean that it contains the kind or the form of ascorbic acid that your skin can use.

Vitamin C as protection from sun 

Vitamin C, as mentioned above, serves as a good shield from the sun, which harms the skin by drying it up and causing wrinkles and lines to show up. Vitamin C does this by neutralizing the reactive oxygen or free radicals, which is often caused by the interaction of sunlight, skin tissues and of course the cell membrane. But though it prevents the absorption of light, it should not be used to replace sunscreen. Skin care experts still recommend the use of sunscreen for maximum sun protection. Still, vitamin C can be combined with sunscreens for more coverage and longer protection because once this gets into the skin, it cannot be easily washed or rubbed off.

Vitamin C as an anti-oxidant

Vitamin C is known to play a crucial role in the oxidation process. It prevents free radicals from destroying the skin. Free radicals are caused by ultraviolet rays from the sun and its reaction with oxygen.

Vitamin C stimulates Collagen

The vitamin helps synthesize collagen, a component of the skin that is essential in slowing down the aging process of the skin. Ascorbic acid signals the collagen genes to begin creating new collagen