Vitamin C Skin Care
Challenge
The Challenges & Problems Of Vitamin C Skin
Care
Vitamin C has been known as a wrinkle
fighter or an anti-aging agent. The main objective of
‘Vitamin C skin care’ is to increase the production
of collagen. The additional benefit of ‘Vitamin C skin
care’ is related to its capability of combating free
radicals which cause damage to the skin.
Vitamin C skin care also faces a major challenge, which is
its tendency to oxidation. When the Vitamin C product comes
in contact with the air, it gets oxidized, and hence making
the vitamin C products useless. The oxidized Vitamin C imparts
a yellowish-brown colour to the Vitamin C skin care product.
This is why it is important for you to check before buying
a Vitamin C skin care product. Even after you buy a Vitamin
C skin care product, you need to store it properly and keep
checking that it’s still good to use.
The manufacturers of Vitamin C skin care products have tried
to deal with this oxidation problem in various ways. One such
method of retaining effectiveness of Vitamin C skin care products
for a long term is to keep a high concentration, for example,
10% of Vitamin C.
But, this will only make the Vitamin C skin care products
even more expensive. The Vitamin C skin care products are
already pretty expensive and making them even more expensive
will throw the product manufacturers out of business. The
other way is to use Vitamin C derivatives such as ascorbyl
palmitate and magnesium ascorbyl phosphate. These are usually
more stable and inexpensive. Even though the derivatives based
products are not as effective as the Vitamin C skin care products,
their stability against oxidation is a very desirable feature
that makes them very attractive. Moreover, these products
are known to be less irritating too.
Talking of effectiveness of Vitamin C skin care products,
you need to understand that not everyone responds to Vitamin
C treatments. It is not a magic potion. If you don’t
see a noticeable difference in your skin, it could be just
due to the fact that your skin not responding to Vitamin C
treatment.
As more studies and researches continue, one can only keep
our fingers crossed and wait for a complete solution to the
challenges faced by ‘Vitamin C skin care’ today.
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