Why are certain vitamins such as C and E applied to the skin in the form of serums? Why isn’t having vitamin C enriched food enough?
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Vitamin A and C do help the skin look youthful but in such high concentrations they cause irritation, burning, stinging and redness. Skin creams and serums with them in in effective concentrations are prescription only.
As for Vitamin E it’s an anti-oxidant and the science around those is sketchy at best, anti-oxidants in the body help deal with free radicals which can affect DNA and damage cells however they also help fight bacteria and infections. There’s no evidence rubbing in or eating anti-oxidants leads to a higher amount within the body.
Skin creams in general are generally snake oil, the 3 active components are a moisturiser, a soluble polymer and hydrogen peroxide.
The moisturiser moisturises, the soluble polymer will be much like those found in hair gel and firm the skin just like putting sticky tape on your face and the hydrogen peroxide burns the top layer of dead skin off leaving you with that tingling sensation and that warm glowing feeling.
Everything else is largely bullshit or in too low a concentration to be effective.
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