As you age, the collagen in your skin slows its production and begins to degenerate faster than it is reproduced, causing problems like skin wrinkling and sagging.
Topical Vitamin C promotes the production and synthesis of collagen, to protect your skin and slow its degeneration.
How Topical Vitamin C Slows Aging
In addition to supporting the production of collagen, Topical Vitamin C protects skin from free radicals that weaken the framework of the collagen.
Free radicals are byproducts of the metabolism of the cells in your body. They are molecules with a missing electron, which means they are highly reactive and frantically seek out an electron to scavenge for their odd one. Free radicals attack chemical compounds nearby throughout the body. In skin, they cause aging by stealing an electron from the collagen structures, creating a break in a strand of collagen. Many of these tiny breaks over time cause your skin to sag and wrinkle.
Vitamin C is an antioxidant with an extra electron, so it lends its extra electrons to free radicals so the strands of collagen in your skin keep their electrons and stay in tact. Thanks to this electron exchange, topical Vitamin C keeps your skin firmer and smoother.
Why Topical Vitamin C? Aren’t Vitamins Enough?
Topical Vitamin C is 20 times more effective than oral supplements in regard to limiting the effects of aging because Topical Vitamin C is applied directly to the skin, so the antioxidant is absorbed and stored in the skin’s cells.
Applying Topical Vitamin C to your skin once a day for three consecutive days provides an adequate baseline amount to keep your skin softer and protected from free radicals. Daily use over an extended period of time is ideal for slowing the effects of aging by promoting the production and synthesis of collagen.
How Soon do you see Results?
Noticeable results from use of Topical Vitamin C vary depending on the person and condition of their skin, but usually take between two to eight weeks. After six months of application, you will see the maximum effects of a Topical Vitamin C treatment on your skin. However, it is critical that you:
- Apply it consistently
- Adopt supportive regimens such as daily sunscreen
- Limit unhealthy skin behaviors like sun overexposure and smoking
Side effects from Topical Vitamin C include some dryness or flaking, treatable with a moisturizer. If you know your skin is sensitive, however, and you have reacted to other skin care products, consult your dermatologist or plastic surgeon before beginning a Topical Vitamin C treatment of any kind.
Skincare is an ongoing process and there is no one treatment to keep us from aging. In fact, your skin may benefit from multiple treatments, and many are compatible with Topical Vitamin C, such as exfoliants like hydroxy acids. We must face it, though, we inevitably get older and look older. But with topical Vitamin C in our daily skincare regimen, we can at least keep our skin healthy and slow down the aging process.
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