Benefits of vitamin c

Vitamin C is considered as a vital organic and natural ingredient. There are a lot of scientific benefits of vitamin C for your skin care. At first, let’s look at the chemistry of vitamin C. Vitamin C is referred to as ascorbic acid. It is a part of a family of molecules called as antioxidants. This molecule helps different others such as DNA and proteins to protect from damage created by UV exposure, pollution, cigarette smoke and many others. Topical vitamin C protects collagen of your skin from breaking down. Eventually this makes your skin look more healthy and youthful. On the other hand, researchers have found that vitamin C also work on cells in many ways.

Reduction of pigmentation

Ascorbic acid has been known to fade brown spots in the skin. Mostly melanin causes skin pigmentation, which is a brownish molecule responsible for skin color. Ascorbic acid reduces the visibility of pigmentation. This happens in two ways and happens in molecular level. Studies have shown benefits of topical vitamin C in decreasing visibility of brown spots on the body and face. So, it plays a role in thinning age spots as well.

Recovering sun damage

Studies on people who applied ascorbic acid found a statistical significant decrease in fine lines and wrinkles. Often these reports are referred as proof to support using topical vitamin C in skin care products. So, vitamin is can help you to recover from damages caused by sun exposure like wrinkles and fine lines.

It also can help to reduce existing dark spots you have. It reduces the activity of the enzymes that causes the production of pigment and also helps to reduce the existing discoloration. Although, it won’t work as well as hydroquinone or Retin-A at reducing scars and spots, but certainly will help to gain an overall healthy skin tone.

How to deliver in vitamin C into the skin

Ideally you can able to put some vitamin C into your skin or eat enough vitamin C containing food and get the benefits. But the process is not that simple. The main obstacle for the vitamins C is to get into the skin. But there are many ways by which vitamin C can be delivered. Some of them are fat soluble and others are water soluble. There are lipid and watery layers in skin. So a product which is a balance of both fat soluble and water soluble ingredients has a best chance of absorption. Better option is to use both types of vitamin C efficiently penetrate skin and help both radicals and collagen. Look carefully at the product’s ingredients list. Makes sure that there are these ingredients: ascorbic acid, sodium ascorbyl phosphate, ascorbyl palmitate and tetrahexyldecyl ascorbate.

You should consult a dermatologist to find the best suitable vitamin C product available in the market. Also, you have to be very cautious about handling vitamin C products because vitamin C is very vulnerable to light, sun and air exposure. Your vitamin C product must be packaged in opaque tubes, air sensitive bottles, or airless pumps that keep their ingredients stable after the product has been opened and used. Lastly, negative side effects or reactions to vitamin C are rare. But if you face any kind of skin condition such as eczema, consult a dermatologist.