Vitamin C: Your Skin’s New Best Friend

Everyone knows that vitamin C is great for colds, but did you know that it’s also great for your skin? Vitamin C benefits the skin in many different ways, as it works as an antioxidant and it promotes the growth of collagen. Looking for skin products that contain ascorbic acid (the technical name of vitamin c) is great way to get these benefits for your skin. Vitamin C can be absorbed through your skin, and once applied it sinks in and lasts up to 72 hours.

Written by Vanessa Davids, Green Health Research Contributor

Antioxidant Benefits of Vitamin C

Free radicals are pollutants that can damage your skin and cause wrinkles and cancer. Antioxidants like ascorbic acid fight free radicals and the damage that they cause. Vitamin C is a natural antioxidant that neutralizes free radicals and naturally converts them into non-harmful elements. By fighting one of the main causes of wrinkles, ascorbic acid helps to prevent wrinkles before they even become an issue for your skin, and the vitamin helps once you do see wrinkles through promoting collagen production!

Collagen Production and Vitamin C

Vitamin C is vital for your body to produce collagen. Collagen is what helps your skin look young and fresh by keeping it elastic and supple. Collagen helps reduce the appearance of wrinkles and slows their development, and it also fights the cottage-cheese appearance of the always-dreaded cellulite. Collagen also is necessary to keep your bones and teeth healthy, so getting ascorbic acid through your skin products is excellent for your whole body, not just your skin.