Some Amazing Skin Benefits of Using Vitamin C Serum

Vitamin C is a potent antioxidant that neutralizes free radicals, making it an important skincare ingredient. However, vitamin C has a lot of other effects that can help you get bright and glowing skin. It has become a staple in an effective skincare routinefor many good reasons. Here’s a list of wonderful functions and features of vitamin C in relation to your skin. Takea look.

1. It is a Safe Treatment for Most Skin Types:

Vitamin C is generally safe for all types of skinand many people use it topically for an extended period to achieve great results.However, people with hypersensitive skin may experience redness and irritation when using vitamin C-containing products. For those with sensitive skin, look for vitamin C that is formulated to deliver the most active form (L-ascorbic acid) without causing irritation.

2. Helps to Even Out Your Skin Tone:

Vitamin C helps to decreaseredness and evens out your complexion. By inhibiting an enzyme necessary for the creation of melanin, vitamin c can help to reduce hyperpigmentation such as sun spots, age spots, or melasma. And because it’s a potent anti-inflammatory molecule, it can ease the redness associated with sunburn laser treatments, and rosacea.

3. Protects Against Sun Damage and other Causes of Free Radicals:

Free radicals from external causes like pollution, sunlight, or even some chemical-type sunscreens damage skin cells at a DNA level, causing premature aging or increased risk of skin cancers. As a potent antioxidant, by preventing cell mutations vitamin C neutralizes free radicals before they can cause damage. But this wonder molecule does even more in relation to UV light: for example, it’s been shown that UV light can cause immunosuppression within the skin, which is prevented by applying topical vitamin C. In addition, vitamin C regenerates the vitamin E (another antioxidant) by donating electrons to it.

4 Prevents the Signs of Premature Aging

Vitamin C has a role in stimulating collagen production via at least 4 different biochemical pathways (including turning on a collagen synthesizing gene and inhibiting an enzyme that breaks down collagen). In fact, a study of 60 women on the topical use of a vitamin C complex proved that vitamin C increases collagen synthesis (as measured by an increase in dermal thickness, measured using ultrasound). With collagen-rich skin cells, you are less likely to show wrinkling than people with thinner skin.

5. Acts as a Reservoir for Ongoing Benefits:

When you apply vitamin C to your skin, it basically becomes part of your skin, and can’t be rubbed or washed off. In fact, it’s been shown that vitamin C applied to the skin is still present in the dermis for up to 3 days. This is called the reservoir effect.

Use the Best Vitamin C Serum for the Best Results

To get all the aforementioned skin benefits, search for the best vitamin C that provides your skin with the active form, that is, L-ascorbic acid (the only form of vitamin C that the body can actually use).While pure L-ascorbic acid absorbs easily into the skin, it’s very unstable in water so soon oxidizes in solutions. That’s why many vitamin C serums contain derivatives of vitamin Clike ascorbyl palmitate or magnesium ascorbyl phosphate. These derivatives are then converted to the active L-ascorbic acid, but unfortunately, they don’t actually penetrate the skin very well. An alternative is to use pure L-ascorbic acid powder and mix it into a serum just prior to use. Synergie Skin’s Pure C, available in the US from Skin Elegance, is an example of this.

More recently, cosmetic chemists have formulated with 3-0 ethyl ascorbic acid, which demonstrates the highest conversion (86%) to active L-ascorbic acid.In fact, Synergie Skin has a proprietary form of vitamin C containing CMF Triacid Complex™, which combines this potent and stable form of vitamin C with mandelic and ferulic acids for additional effects. SupremaC+ from Synergie Skin includes CMF Triacid Complex along with other anti-aging, amplifying and antioxidant ingredients like betaine, DIM, and lycopene to provide multiple benefits in an elegant, daily-use serum.SupremaC+ is the ideal form of vitamin C for anyone with sensitive skin (for whom L-ascorbic acid powder may be irritating).

Visit the Skin Elegance website for your preference in vitamin C—either Pure C powder or SupremaC+. Whichever form you prefer, we suggest you do a patch test to assess your risks for any kind of an allergic reaction. Take a very little amount of serum (or powder mixed in with another serum), apply it on the inside of your arm, or the side of your neck, and wait for at least 24 hours. If the product does not cause any side effects, you can start using it for your skin requirements.

Skin Elegance provides complete information about the ingredients in all Synergie products as well as instructions on how to use them to help you get maximum benefits from these clean beauty cosmetics. At Skin Elegance you can find helpful videos on many of the individual product pages too.