Vitamin C: the star active ingredient to boost your skin
What do we need? Vitamin C treatment. Anti-blemish, anti-blemish, anti-aging, vitamin C is one of the best vitamins for the skin. Lack of sleep, smoking, pollution, stress, and an unbalanced diet are among the main causes of a dull complexion and contribute to the deterioration of our skin. These daily aggressions lead to the formation of free radicals that oxidize skin cells and accelerate its aging. Wrinkles, fine lines, and pigment spots appear, and the skin loses its firmness and radiance. This phenomenon is commonly called oxidative stress. And this is where vitamin C can help, by slowing down this oxidative stress:
- It protects the skin against external aggressions such as sun rays, stress, tobacco or pollution, by preventing the oxidation of cells by free radicals.
- It promotes the formation of collagen to maintain skin firmness.
- It manages to reduce superficial pigment spots.
- It has anti-inflammatory activity while also participating in the balance of the skin's bacterial defenses.
In short, it's an active ingredient to have in your bathroom. Here's a closer look at the three vitamin-rich IOMA treatments that have proven their worth.
What are the special features of vitamin C in IOMA treatments?
A fragile active ingredient, vitamin C can sometimes be a challenge to formulate! The two major drawbacks of this molecule: its instability and its penetration. Vitamin C can deteriorate upon contact with air, heat, light, and water. It has difficulty penetrating the skin barrier due to the skin's hydrophobicity. So to achieve an effective formulation, the IOMA brand uses more stable forms of vitamin C, which facilitate its formulation, such as Magnesium Ascorbyl Phosphate or Ascorbyl Tetraisopalmitate. These derived forms of vitamin C penetrate the skin more easily. By combining them with other powerful antioxidants such as vitamin E or niacinamide (vitamin B3), vitamin C effectively achieves skin photoprotection, collagen synthesis, and the reduction of pigment spots.
How to integrate it into your beauty routine?
When needed, you can opt for a treatment, for a "boost" effect, or as part of your daily beauty routine. Vitamin C can be applied both during the day and at night, since it is not photosensitizing.
Vitamin C serum
More concentrated and lighter than a cream, it serves as a "booster" to address a specific problem: anti-pollution, radiance, anti-aging, etc. Vitamin C acts in synergy with vitamin E, an antioxidant naturally present in the skin. It plays a vital role in protecting against oxidative stress, and vitamin E helps maintain collagen fibers in the skin. The synergistic effect of vitamins C and E creates a barrier against UV rays. This treatment is applied after cleansing the skin. One to three drops alone before your skincare cream, or mixed with your cream or foundation.
Vitamin C as a night mask
Vitamin C is the ingredient of choice for a "radiance boost" mask. Between morning and evening, the weight of the day is displayed on our face: loss of firmness, dark circles, drawn features, deep wrinkles, dull complexion... We then opt for the Vitality Sleeping Mask , which strengthens our skin to prepare it to face oxidative stress. Use one to three times a week or as a treatment, every evening for ten days. It replaces night cream . Apply it in the evening to perfectly cleansed and make-up-free skin. Rinse it off the next morning.
Vitamin C in day cream
Often less dosed than a serum, a cream has the advantage of hydrating the skin at the same time as it acts. Vitamin C is combined with other active ingredients, most often moisturizers but also antioxidants, which slow the production of free radicals and protect the skin from the effects of UV rays, pollution and blue light. We apply these treatments daily, that is to say morning and/or evening on perfectly cleansed skin. If, at the end of the first week of vitamin C treatment, the radiance of our complexion encourages us to continue the vitamin-rich beauty routine, we do not forget that we must wait one or two months to observe the real effects of the treatments on our skin, the time for its cellular renewal and the action of the active ingredients.
