If you’ve been thinking about stepping up your skincare game, you’ve probably spent plenty of time looking at products and researching ingredients. This can get confusing, especially if you have multiple skin issues or combination skin complicating your search. What you need, regardless of skin type, is a product that’s gentle, yet follows through on the promises it makes to revitalize and rejuvenate your skin.

Although it sounds like a tall order, there actually is something out there that’s capable of delivering on its promises. It’s also something you’re already familiar with and have probably been lectured about getting enough of since childhood. Vitamin C is good for your body, inside and out, but its most visible benefits may be in the area of skincare. Here’s a little bit about what using Vitamin C on your skin, in the form of a serum, can do for your complexion.

Why Vitamin C Serum?

With all the products out there promising to be miracle workers, Vitamin C really is the powerful, results-producing ingredient that it claims to be. Vitamin C is a powerful antioxidant, and as a nutrient is essential for the growth, repair, and development of body tissues. It also helps boost the immune system, speeds healing and supports strong bones and teeth – among other things.

So, is drinking your orange juice or taking a supplement enough to see some skincare benefits? Well, the answer is both yes and no. Vitamin C, when consumed helps support a healthy body and fights off oxidative stress, both of which can shine through all the way through to your skin.

However, to really tap into the benefits of Vitamin C for your skin, consuming it through foods, beverages and supplements aren’t enough to maximize results. The reason being the epidermis, the outermost layer of skin, isn’t so great at delivering nutrients to your skin cells. So, you need a way to deliver Vitamin C to those upper layers of the skin – the same ones that are constantly under stress, and the ones that play an important role in how healthy your skin looks.

Vitamin C serum is an effective delivery method that helps to heal, repair, and rejuvenate the skin, from the top layers down.

What Vitamin C Serum Does

You know enough about Vitamin C to have a reasonable idea of what it does to support your immune system, and the role in plays in other promoting health in other ways, but you might not be so clear on what it does for the skin and how it works.

Vitamin C is a powerful antioxidant, that when applied directly to the skin’s surface, helps protect and heal the skin from oxidative stress and damage – like the type of oxidative stress that comes from too much time spent in the sun and the assault by environmental toxins your skin endures on a daily basis.

As Vitamin C serum works to combat oxidative stress, it’s also doing things that you can visibly see and feel. Vitamin C serum helps to correct hyperpigmentation and even skin tone, which is a problem many of us face as our skin matures, regardless of the amount of time we’ve spent in the sun.

A high-quality Vitamin C serum also does other wonderful things for your skin. When applied topically, Vitamin C promotes a healing response in the skin. This, in turn, helps to ease inflammation, including the type that occurs with inflammatory acne. Vitamin C serum also helps to improve the synthesis of collagen and elastin, which are both majorly important to the support structure of your skin. As we age, collagen and elastin production and synthesis begin to decline. Vitamin C serum can help prevent that decline and support healthier production.

So, let’s take a minute to recap. Vitamin C serum prevents and heals oxidative stress and damage, it soothes inflammation associated with acne and other skin conditions, it reduces the appearance and the formation of fine lines by supporting collagen and elastin synthesis, and it leaves your skin looking brighter and feeling smoother. It seems like Vitamin C serum might really be the magic elixir for all skin types that we’ve been looking for.

Can Everyone Use Vitamin C Serum?

If you’re wondering if Vitamin C serum is suitable for your skin type, in most cases the answer is yes. However, there are some things to consider. For instance, the quality of Vitamin C serum you use is important. Vitamin C on its own can be relatively unstable and a little acidic, so you need to make sure it’s blended in a formula that protects its integrity and allows it to be absorbed into the skin in the gentlest way possible.

It’s also important to consider your skin type when choosing a Vitamin C serum. Some products are designed to be gentle and suitable for multiple skin types, while others are formulated with additional ingredients designed to target other specific skin issues.

Regardless of skin type, Vitamin C serum works best when applied daily and consistently. Although well tolerated by most skin types, if you have very sensitive skin, you can start by using every other day and work up to daily use.  

Finally, regardless of skin type, it’s important to be patient. Vitamin C serum accomplishes amazing things, but real results don’t happen overnight. Be persistent, and trust that you’ll see the results you’re looking for.

Choosing Skin Care That Supports Your Skin Naturally

There are plenty of products out there that promise results with harsh ingredients, which can actually cause more harm than good. Vitamin C is a natural ingredient that beautifully supports healthy skin. When choosing any skincare product, it’s important to consider the bounty of the world around us and support products and companies that strive to create a balance with nature, to promote both a beautiful world and a beautiful you.

"Compromised Immune System;Oxidative Stress " "Environment;Healthy Beauty;Non-toxic " "All Types;Cystic Acne;Hyperpigmentation;Inflammatory Conditions;Loss of Collagen;Loss of Elasticity;Mature;Oxidative Stress;Premature Aging;Sensitive;UV Damage " "Ascorbyl Glucoside;Sodium Ascorbyl Phosphate "