Angelic Skin! Blog

We should all know by now the importance in Vitamins for our health with a responsible blend of both nutritional supplements and good diet. Today’s Blog is about Vitamin C, , Vitamin C cannot be stored in the body and must be re-introduced (orally and/or topically) on a daily basis.

Vitamin C topically applied to our skin is a potent antioxidant (protects skin from oxidative damages) and antiaging (improves skin elasticity by enhanced collagen production), and prevents hyper-pigmentation including age spots. Oxidative damage shows up on our faces in the form of photo-aging (i.e. sun spots and discolorations) and other aging effects we spend a lot of money to reverse. Topical Vitamin C has now been shown to provide up to 8 times the skin’s natural protection from UV damage, protecting the skin in ways that a sun-screen may not. Using Vitamin C together with a great sun-screen works best to protect skin from photo-aging.

When selecting a product with Vitamin C the ‘C’ needs to be very bio-available to achieve effective results to the skin. Ester C was a ground-breaking discovery in it’s time because it was stable and did not yellow, but it not as absorbable to our skin, i.e. not as effective in the products you using.

Today we have access to an ever better form of ‘C’ and that is Sodium Ascorbyl Phosphate, a pro-vitamin form of C, also known as Stable C. We want the skin to bio-convert the pro-vitamin C form to be able to take up the ‘C’ right away. Even if it may change the product’s color a bit Stable C stays active longer. For me I will take the creamier color if it means I have less discolorations and wrinkles. (Look for the Sodium Ascorbyl Phosphate in your skin care ingredients. Escent Skin Care’s Nutritional Eye Support Gel is an excellent course of Stable C)

How about you? Has your skin had it’s Vitamin C today?