If you’re feeling overwhelmed with all of the skincare ingredients out there, fret not as you only need to start with one ingredient first before working your way up in your skincare routine.
Vitamin C – that’s the very first that you should include in your regimen, and you seriously will be missing out if you don’t do so, pronto.
The must-have, ‘secret-weapon for skin’ kind of ingredient, vitamin C is sufficient in what we call a powerhouse for our skin. Not only does it works to brighten the skin (which is what we always hear about) but this vitamin functions deeper than that, undoing damages, aiding in repair, and basically restoring your skin back to its prime state.
This may sound over the top but indeed that’s what this vitamin is, and it’s backed by decades of studies. If you still need some convincing, read on to know the reasons why you should add it into your beauty routine.
Improving overall skin tone
As mentioned before, vitamin C works to brighten the skin and this goes deep into the skin instead of being a superficial brightener.
Vitamin C works to evens out skin tone, undo discoloration (including both hyper and hypopigmentation) such as acne scars and sunburn by inhibiting enzymes responsible for skin pigmentation to ensure uniformity across the skin.
In the long run, this will brighten your skin a couple of notches, that make your skin look glowing and simply radiant.
If you have a certain area that is discolored or uneven, a dose of vitamin C serum will certainly help to infuse an extra dose of the antioxidant to speed up skin repair.
Increases collagen and elastin production within your skin cells.
While collagen is a naturally-occurring element within our skin, the rate diminishes as we get older that it won’t be able to counter aging effects that are inevitable to our skin.
As a result, fine lines, wrinkles, and sagging skin are to be expected as we age. And this is also beneficial for acne scars as well!
That said, we don’t have to rely on natural aging because we can delay it and maintain the youthfulness of our skin. Vitamin C helps us just that by supporting collagen and elastin production by stimulating the activity of cell fibroblasts to replace the ones that are aged, brittle, and broken within the skin structure.
As a result, firmer, supple-looking skin is what you’ll get.
Anti-inflammation.
Being an antioxidant, there are healing properties within the vitamin as well. The antioxidant is anti-inflammatory that helps with various inflammations (another word for it is skin damage) such as wounds, acne, acne scar, and sunburn to support the skin’s healing process, restoring the skin back to its healthier form.
Protects skin from sun damage.
Again with its healing properties related to sun damage, this vitamin is also a potent antioxidant that neutralizes free radicals caused by penetrating UV rays into your skin that can lead to various skin issues such as wrinkles, sagging skin, pigmentation, or even skin cancer.
The free radicals themselves are inflammatory to the skin cells that the antioxidant will draw in free radicals, neutralize them to ensure they won’t cause any more damage to the skin.
How to use it?
Being a versatile ingredient in various skin care products, the options are endless and you can use any vitamin C skin care product to suit your needs. That said, it’s recommended to start with either essence or serums with the vitamin as the main ingredient to reap the benefits as much as possible.
Use the product twice a day – focusing on the affected areas if any – and see how your skin will improve visibly in a few weeks!
