November
2008
Try Topical Vitamin C For More Vibrance
The season is coming upon us where our skin will start to tend more to the dry side - yes, even those of us with severe acne can get extremely dry skin, to the point of cracking, it’s one of the conondrums of having acne, you have both dry and oil skin sometimes, especially those of us like me who has a very combination complexion. My oily spots are on my forehead and believe it or not on the sides of my chin and the chin itself, but mostly extending out from my chin in my lower cheek area is where I get the most oil if I’m blotting at work in between breaks.
One thing I absolutely love, which also usually happens to be in acne friendly formulas for a moisturizer, is any product with pure, natural vitamin C ester. This is one of the best skin brighteners in my opinion. If I ever stop using it for a few days, I notice that my complexion does get duller, so I try to use my vitamin C serum every night, and sometimes I even put a little on in the morning underneath my normal cream moisturizer, I just make sure i let the serum dry completely before I put on the moisturizer.
Vitamin C serums are my favorite. For some reason I just have better luck with this vitamin in a serum. It may be that a serum formula allows the product to absorb better into the skin, or perhaps my favorite formula just happens to have other great ingredients in it and also happens to be of a very high quality.
Some people may be sensitive to vitamin C topically, but that’s usually rare, and it’s usually only with people who are extremely sensitive to all sorts of products. Vitamin C is calming for most skin types. It helps topically reduce inflammation, and it also helps to naturally slough off the dead skin cells on the top of the skin that make for a duller complexion, which is, I believe, the reason that it works so ideally as a skin clarifier and brightener.
