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vitamin C serum has 15 percent L-ascorbic acid, plus a pumpkin ferment extract... whatever that is.
My questions are these: Should one care about the percentages of these ingredients at all? Is 20 percent going to be more effective than 5 percent? Or am I just comparing apples to oranges because they're all these random/different derivatives? And on that note, is one derivative better than another?Hi friend, this is an excellent question—and one I have secretly wished someone would ask me here becauseis super confusing! Indeed, now that we’re all paying more attention to what’s on our...
Vitamin C is “really important as an antioxidant” for your skin, Shari Lipner, M.D., Ph.D., dermatologist at Weill Cornell Medicine and New York-Presbyterian, tells SELF. That means it can helpin the environment that could otherwise damage the skin, which makes it a great thing to look for in sunscreens, she says. It’s also useful as a brightening agent against dark spots because it inhibits the production of the pigment melanin.
When you’re picking out a vitamin C product, there are a few things to keep in mind, Dr. Lipner says. The first thing to know is that, when present in something like a serum, it should be colorless—and it should be stored in a dark place in a dark bottle. “When
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