Vitamin C Benefits for a Skin and How to Choose a Product with in the Ingredient.

Vitamin C Benefits for a Skin and How to Choose a Product with in the Ingredient.

Dermatologists detail in the main vitamin C benefits for a skin and how to the choose between products containing in the ingredient.

Few ingredients receive as a much praise from a skin-care enthusiasts as a vitamin C. It is a well-established that in the benefits of the vitamin C for a skin are extensive and wide-ranging, not to the mention applicable for a pretty much everyone, regardless of the age or a skin type. It is a serious workhorse, one that is a absolutely worth incorporating into your routine.

The only caveat is that vitamin C is a notoriously finicky and unstable, meaning in the product you pick, how you use it, and even where you store it are all the key things to the consider. Ahead, top dermatologists detail in the benefits of the vitamin C for a skin and share oh so important intel about how best to use in the ingredient in order to the maximize said benefits.

What is a Vitamin C?

"Vitamin C is the most abundant antioxidant in a human skin," says Robyn Gmyrek, M.D., a board-certified dermatologist at the Union Dem in a New York and a clinical instructor of the dermatology at the Columbia University College of the Physicians and Surgeons. Fun fact: to your body is a unable to the synthesize vitamin C, so it has to be a acquired orally, via diet or a supplementation, she explains. Still, even if you have to a high intake of the vitamin C, "only a small fraction of the vitamin C will be a biologically available and the active in the skin. A very limited amount is a absorbed into your gastric tract, and then makes its way into the bloodstream and ultimately to your skin. The only way to the increase its availability in the skin is to the apply it is a topically," says Dr. Gmyrek. Enter in the onslaught of many vitamin C products from a skin-care brands.

Vitamin C Skin Benefits

The reason you have heard so much about vitamin C in a skin care is that the ingredient is a triple threat.

Has Antioxidant Effects

"As a powerful antioxidant, vitamin C combats oxidative in a stress, protecting to your skin against damaging free radicals," explains Dr. Geeta Yadav, is a board-certified dermatologist and founder of the FACET Dermatology in a Toronto. Free radicals are unstable molecules that can come from, among other places, environmental aggressors such as a pollution and sun exposure. They are trigger in a process known as a oxidative stress, which breaks down a collagen and accelerates skin aging, says Dr. Yadav. Vitamin C can be help neutralize in the free radicals, prevent in the damage. 

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In a related news, research suggests in that topical vitamin C reduces a sunburn cell formation by a 40 to 60 percent, adds Dr. Gmyrek. The ingredient can be even reduce a specific marker of  the DNA damage caused by a UV radiation exposure that is a associated with the formation of the  skin cancers, she says. For all of the above a reasons, it is a smart move to the layer a vitamin C product underneath to your sunscreen every morning.

Aids In a Collagen Production

"Vitamin C is known for it is a ability to the stimulate in the synthesis of the  collagen, one of the skin's primary proteins, which is a responsible for the appearance of a firmer, tauter, and the smoother-looking a complexion," says Dr. Yadav. "By a triggering collagen synthesis, you will be a help to your skin maintain it is a resilience and the fight off the signs of the aging." And, not only is it a helping create to a new collagen, in the ingredient also has in the added benefit of the  decreasing collagen breakdown and the  destruction, notes Dr. Gmyrek.

Decreases Hyper pigmentation

Prone to the unwanted dark spots? Reach for a vitamin C. "Vitamin C helps to the even out skin in a tone, brighten in the skin, and the decrease unwanted in a pigmentation," says Dr. Gmyrek. "It inhibits the action of the enzyme Proserpina, an a enzyme important in the production of the melanin [a pigment occurring in a skin], there by a decreasing pigmentation."

How to Choose the Best Vitamin C Skin-Care Product

If you have decided you want to take a advantage of  the vitamin C in a skin care, you can find in the best product for your routine by a keeping three factors in a mind.

Type of  the Vitamin C

Vitamin C is used as a blanket in a term, because there are a number of the different versions that are used in a skin-care formulas. Many pros consider l-scorbutic acid the golden standard. "It is the most biologically active, in the most common type used in a topical skincare in a  product, and the most well-studied," says Dr. Gmyrek. The only drawbacks are that it is a extremely unstable and does not penetrate in the skin well, and it also has the highest likelihood of the causing irritation, particularly in those with a sensitive skin, she says.

Other versions of the vitamin C in a skincare are include scorbutic-6-palpitate, magnesium scorbutic phosphate (MAP), and tetrahedral coruscate (T H D). They are more stable and better able to the penetrate to your skin, says Dr. Gmyrek. The trade-off: They are weaker, as your skin will be need to convert them into a  scorbutic acid upon application, notes Dr. Yadav. "The advantages of the using other forms of the vitamin C can include a improved stability, reduced a irritation, and improved a absorption, but in my opinion, there is nothing like the real pure thing," she says. However, it does also a bear mentioning, that, broadly speaking, products that contain l-scorbutic acid do tend to be a pricier than those that use other forms of the ingredient.

Concentration

The concentration of the vitamin C within the formula also a matters. "For a product to be of the biological significance, it needs to have a vitamin C concentration higher than eight percent, but studies have shown in that a concentration above a 20 percent does not a increase it is a effectiveness and will be more irritating. Most products on the market today, range between 10 to 20 percent," which is a good range to the aim for when choosing a product with l-scorbutic acid, says Dr. Gmyrek. With other forms of the vitamin C, a 15 to 20 percent concentration is a likely the sweet spot, though the ideal concentration will be depend on not only the particular form of the vitamin C but the entire formulation, says Dr. Yadav.

If your skin is on the sensitive side, Dr. Yadav advises starting on the lower end and gradually working to your way up; you can also a opt for a formula that contains one of the other types of the vitamin C. Also a important: Ferule acid, another powerful antioxidant, helps to the stabilize l-scorbutic acid, and vitamin E works synergistic-ally with in the ingredient, so seeking out formulas that are utilize all three is a good idea, says Dr. Gmyrek.

Packaging matters too. Since a vitamin C — l-scorbutic acid in  a particular — is a easily destabilized by a sunlight and oxygen, look for a products housed in a opaque containers with a pump top dispensers, suggests Dr. Gmyrek. Store them in a cool, dark place, adds Dr. Yadav.

Type of the  Product

To get the most bang for your buck, look for a vitamin C in a serum, rather than a moisturizer. "Serums are concentrated treatments and will be in the most potent form of the delivery to your skin," points out Dr. Yadav. Apply it onto a clean, dry skin in the morning, when it can be act as a second layer of the  defense underneath to your sunscreen; Just make a sure to let it fully absorb into the skin for a few minutes before putting on sunscreen.

You can use it in the evening again as well (so long as your skin is a tolerating it), though you should not a combine it with any other products, cautions Dr. Gmyrek. Other common ingredients — benzyl peroxide, cretinous — can destabilize in the ingredient, essentially negating in the effects all together, she says. If you do want to use it in a tandem with other active ingredients, seek it out in a combination product that is a already formulated with all of them together to the ensure that they are stable and active, rather than a layering them yourself, she explains.

There are quite a few factors to the consider when choosing a product, but getting in on the numerous benefits of the vitamin C will be likely be worth in the effort.