Everyone knows Vitamin C plays an essential vitamin required to maintain a healthy lifestyle. This powerful antioxidant can support your immune system, protect internal damage from free radicals, increase collagen synthesis for connective tissues, and prevent serious conditions such as scurvy.
Being a water-soluble vitamin, it is not stored in our body and excess is flushed out daily. Even if you are taking in the recommended 500 mg daily, why is it so important to still use it topically? Although your internal body is absorbing and keeping the benefits of vitamin-c, your skin does not because you do not have any blood vessels on your epidermis (skin’s outer layer).
The blood supply is located in the dermis, a layer of connective tissues including fat, collagen, and your veins and capillaries. Without it’s own blood supply, your epidermis relies on a process of diffusion where it absorbs it nutrients from surrounding cells underneath. Even with high intake amounts your body can only process a fraction of this vitamin at a time, leaving a small chance to be absorbed by the skin.
What are the Benefits?
Vitamin C provides many of the same benefits for your skin as your body. Antioxidants prevent damage of free radicals, an unstable molecule that comes from carcinogens and pollution around us. Once the free radical comes in contact with a cell, it creates a chain reaction that leads to cellular death and premature aging.
Your skin’s tone and texture are almost instantly transformed from the first use of vitamin C. Over time it will maintain healthy muscle tone, improve collagen and elastin synthesis to decrease the appearance of lines and wrinkles, and brightens uneven skin tone while adding extra protection for your skin from further sun damage.
How to Choose a Vitamin C Product
With an overwhelming number of choices on the market for topical Vitamin C, it can be difficult to find the perfect product. The most common on the market uses the water soluble form L-Ascorbic Acid. Just like the name suggests these will have a lower pH, and over time can cause damage to the skin. There is also a very short life due to the priciest natural instability.
A fat-soluble Vitamin C is our preferred choice for the skin. It has been proven to be more stable, penetrate deeper and be more effective than a water-soluble form. With a neutral pH there is also less damage to the skin, making it more tolerable to a wider variety of patients. C-Vit by Sesderma utilizes nano technology and a fat soluble liposome coating to deliver this powerful ingredient deeper into the skin, and has a sweet, natural fragrance.
Learn about our C-Vit serum by Sesderma included in our “Treat, Prevent & Protect” product bundle special available for purchase exclusively at Dr. Gurley’s office!