When should I apply my vitamin C serum? Day or night?Updated a year ago
There’s a lot of confusion about when to apply vitamin C. Is a vitamin C serum better at night or during the day?
Because of its powerful protective abilities, it’s best to apply vitamin C serum in the daytime, as part of your morning routine.
Vitamin C neutralizes the destructive, aging damage caused by the sun and pollution. That’s why you want it on your skin in the daytime, when you’re more likely to spend time outdoors coming face to face with all of these external aggressors.
Plus, vitamin C’s powerful antioxidant abilities also mean it can keep your sunscreen a little more stable, so it’s a nice boost to your sun protection efforts.
That said, if vitamin C doesn’t fit into your morning routine for whatever reason, rest assured that it’s still effective even if you use it at other times of the day.
Using a correctly-formulated vitamin C serum for a few days in a row raises the level of vitamin C in your skin. That means you’ll benefit from it in the daytime even if you applied it at night.