What does ascorbic acid do for the skin?Updated a year ago
When we talk about vitamin C serums, we’re talking about serums made with ascorbic acid. That’s because ascorbic acid is the only truly active and bioavailable form of vitamin C.
Other ingredients often advertised as vitamin C, like magnesium ascorbyl phosphate, are pale imitations of the real deal that don’t even possess a fraction of its efficacy and potency as an antioxidant and skin-rejuvenating ingredient.
The trouble with this real, pure form of vitamin C is that it’s highly unstable, which makes finding a vitamin C serum that works a difficult process. Any exposure to light or oxygen causes vitamin C to degrade, so it can lose its efficacy within days, even just sitting on store shelves.
To develop our own Vitamin C Superserum, we had to resort to NASA technology to create bottles that could keep this ingredient stabilized.
Many other brands, however, opt for a shortcut that, as it turns out, doesn’t really work. That’s exactly what we’re talking about in this post today.