No need to say that vitamin C is needed to maintain the work of many of its systems. And since it does not synthesize with us naturally and does not accumulate in the future, it is necessary to take it all the time, preferably not only in the form of tablets, but also getting "live" - from fruits, vegetables.
As for the skin, it gets an ascorbic acid according to the "residual principle", after the main one has already distributed to more significant organs, so the skin most often suffers from the lack of vitamin C.
Look in the mirror: if you have a grayish color and sluggish skin, prone to high capillar strokes, it probably needs additional portions of ascorbic acid. And if you also smoke, love a lot to sunbathe, often feel stress and your diet is far from the ideals of healthy food, you may not doubt: Vitamin C will be useful to your skin.
Even when we regularly get ascorbic acid with food or in the form of vitamins, its consumption increases sharply for a number of reasons, among which:
- Diseases, feverish conditions and various toxic effects.
- The conditions are too hot or too cold climate (in this case, the need for ascorbic acid rises by 30-50%).
- Reception of oral contraceptives (hormones reduce the content of vitamin C in the blood).
- Age. After 45 years, ascorbic acid is worse, it is necessary to increase its consumption.
By the way, residents of megacities and large industrial cities also need additional doses of this vitamin to protect the skin from the effects of aggressive external environmental factors.
In recent years, vitamin C has become widely used both in daily cosmetology and in the treatment and prevention of a number of dermatological diseases. It is difficult to list all its merits, especially since all the new and new beneficial properties of this vitamin are opened periodically. In fact, for the skin it makes a lot:
- It acts as an active antioxidant, blocks the effect of free radicals that run the oxidation and aging processes.
- It has a beneficial effect on the vessels and capillaries, reduces their fragility, contributes to the prevention of Cooperosis and Rosacea.
- Participates in the processes of pigment formation, helps to lighten the already available pigment spots.
- Protects collagen, stimulates biosynthesis of new collagen fibers, thus slowing down the process of wrinkle and leather flabs.
- Protects from photodembrances and prevents skin photos, helps to restore it after ultraviolet irradiation.
- Provides normal skin oroging and rapid healing of small damage.
- Reduces inflammatory processes in the skin, as well as manifestations of pedestal (stagnant and pigment spots).
- Reduces dark circles under the eyes.
- Gives skin healthy color and radiance.
Vitamin C in cosmetics
Despite the modern abundance of high-tech cosmetic ingredients, the beauty industry continues to actively use the well-known vitamin C to correct various skin states. Moreover, ascorbic acid is located in the top list of means that distinguishes aging and providing powerful antioxidant protection.
Not every cream on which it is written "contains vitamin C" will have a beneficial effect on your skin. The fact is that the inclusion of this vitamin in cosmetic products is complicated by its extreme instability, leading to the loss of efficacy and change in such organoleptic properties of the drug, as transparency, odor, consistency. Ascorbic acid is easily destroyed from the effects of oxygen and sunlight, from contact with metals, when heated, in an alkaline medium. In addition, being a water-soluble compound, vitamin C practically does not pass through the lipid barrier of the horn layer, and therefore cannot have an effect on the deep layers of the skin, while remaining on its surface.
Unlike cosmetics of the previous generation, which worked not too effectively or did not work at all, the stable forms of vitamin C were found for modern drugs, which are better absorbed and more efficiently affected. With the help of the latest technologies, modified formulas with, on the one hand, the ability to penetrate the horny layer, and on the other, the ability to split the skin enzymes with the release of active vitamin C directly in the deep layers of the skin.
The most well-known derivatives of ascorbic acid, which have already been used quite well in cosmetology, are water-soluble magnesium ascorbilphosphate and sodium ascorbilphosphate. The latter acts on the skin more softly, it is effective in low concentrations and stable with neutral acidity of the drug. Just as an ascorbic acid, it suppresses the formation of melanin and prevents skin hyperpigmentation. Sodium ascorbilphosphate is able to penetrate the epidermis, where it is transformed into ascorbic acid, which supports the synthesis of collagen, heals the minor damage, protects against the formation of tumors caused by the ultraviolet rays of the spectrum B, has an antioxidant effect.
Together better
Cosmetic preparations with vitamin. C, as a rule, do not conflict with other means of daily care. The only thing you need to remember is about the incompatibility of some substances. Vitamin faster is destroyed by contact with metals (especially iron and copper), as well as salicylic acid derivatives. Therefore, it is not necessary to simultaneously use in the care of the means with the components listed.
But ascorbic acid is well "friendly" with some vitamins and even improves their properties. For example, vitamin C enhances the action of the routine (vitamin P), which is widely used in preparations against cooperosis.
Vitamin C converts an inactive version of vitamin E (tocopherol) to an active antioxidant shape. In turn, the pronounced antioxidant effect of vitamin C is manifested only when it is jointly introduced into cream with tocopherol, since vitamin E is able to effectively eliminate free radicals of fatty acids. Simply put, ascorbic acid stabilizes vitamin E, which is easily destroyed, and vitamin E enhances the antioxidant effect of vitamin C.
Ascorbic acid protects vitamin A from oxidation, improves the effects of vitamin B12 and compensates for the insufficiency of pantothenic acid and a number of other vitamins of B.
Plant flavonoids, which are introduced into the composition of cosmetics, themselves, being natural antioxidants, are maintained in an active condition and protect vitamin C and E from destruction.
So, we see that as a result of the competent combination of certain substances, modern drugs with vitamins turn out to be much more efficient than their predecessors and solve many aesthetic problems. "
Case for the choice
Preparations with vitamin C are great for all skin types, as they have a comprehensive action at once to several common cosmetic problems: wilting skin, wrinkles, cooperosis, rosacea, pigment spots, stains of the pedestal, the consequences of smoking. In high concentrations for the prevention of age-related changes and other unwanted cosmetic phenomena, its use is recommended from 25 years - about this age, our cells cease to recover as efficiently as it was in 18-20 years, and the aging process is launched.
Outwardly vitamin C can be used both continuously and courses, for example, during periods of severe skin stress, in a particularly unfavorable environmental situation, with the exacerbation of Rosacea, as additional therapy in the correction of pigmentation, during peelings or acne treatment.
Regular application with vitamin C on the skin is more efficient than using one-time large doses or nutritional supplements. It is experimentally confirmed that ascorbic acid after complete absorption is not removed when washing, friction or sweating for three days.
Selecting vitamin C, carefully study the list of ingredients on the package and pay special attention to the type of ascorbic acid as part of a cream or mask.
The use of ascorbic acid both inward and as part of cosmetic agents is one of the methods for the prevention of chron and photoborenia, helps to preserve the youth, health and beauty of the skin for a long time.