Vitamin C is touted as one of the holy grail of skincare ingredients. It brightens the complexion, lightens tired features, smoothes the skin, fights against free radicals...is all good. X-ray of this dull anti-complexion weapon! When we are tired, we immediately think of making a cure for vitamin C in tablets. But we think less of using the most famous of vitamins when our skin is a little bit "drained". Wrongly, because its beauty benefits are also spectacular.
Vitamin C is present in 3500 mg in our body, five times more than most other vitamins. Health officials agree that we should be taking around 200mg a day. A compulsory contribution because we are almost the only ones, with the baboon and the guinea pig, not knowing how to synthesize it from sugars.
However, its effects on the body are no longer to be demonstrated:
Unfortunately, barely 1/3 of the vitamin C we absorb is available in our skin. The blame for it? Pollution, a diet deficient in fruits and vegetables, UV rays, alcohol and certain contraceptives. Hence the importance of providing it topically, in the form of molecules synthesized from glucose such as ascorbic acid, L-ascorbic acid, or even ascorbyl palmitate.
Fast and crescendo, from the first week, we notice a beautiful luminosity of our skin and a decrease in the skin micro-relief (less fine lines, less visible pores). There is also a better tolerance to the sun and an obvious disappearance of signs of fatigue.
After 1 to 3 months, our complexion has regained a beautiful homogeneity, the skin is more toned, more luscious, more velvety. Nothing prevents us from using vitamin C treatments all year round since it is a really effective anti-aging if it is used for the long term.
