Vitamin C Serum Benefits and How to Use ItIf you are someone who’s been sensitive about their skin then it’s impossible that you haven’t heard of vitamin C serums. Widely claimed to be one of the best anti-aging ingredients you can find on the market.

While some might claim that it is the key to a glowy complexion and smooth skin, one can achieve results by adding a vitamin C serum to their routine rather than consuming it in their diet.

Benefits of Vitamin C Serum

1. Safe to Use for Almost Every Skin Type

It would be a rare case for you to have irritation while using a vitamin C serum as most people use it for an extended period of time, yet don’t have any issues with the serum. You can face minor irritation only if your skin is hypersensitive.

2. Hydrates Your Body

If you didn’t know by now, most of your healthy organs and skin have a high concentration of vitamin C. It is proven that vitamin C penetrates through the skin and has a hydrating effect. It decreases trans-epidermal water loss which allows the skin to retain moisture better.

3. Evens Out Your Tone While Reducing Redness

Let’s be honest no one wants redness on the skin and vitamin C can help you with that. It acts as an anti-inflammatory agent and soothes your skin while reducing puffiness as well.

It also may neutralize free radicals that are responsible for oxidative damage letting your face shine through. The anti-inflammatory properties also help with reducing redness which can result in a more even complexion.

4. Gives a Brightening Effect

One of the key benefits of vitamin C is that it can help fade pigmentation and smoothen the skin’s surface resulting in the reduction of dullness. They can delay melanin production which can come in handy while fading dark spots and preventing you to get a dewy glow.

5. Promotes Production of Collagen

One thing to know about collagen is that it’s a naturally occurring protein that exhausts over time. While lower collagen is bad news as it can lead to wrinkles and fine lines. Vitamin C can help and is best known for its collagen production. So having a serum that can help you produce collagen can come in handy.

6. Fades Away Hyperpigmentation

As you know by now hyperpigmentation can be faded with vitamin C. When melanin is overproduced in certain areas it can cause age spots, sun spots, and melasma. Vitamin C takes care of this by taking care of an enzyme called tyrosine, thus fading hyperpigmentation

7. Prevents Sagging

When we talk about skin sagging, this happens when collagen production is low. As collagen level is directly proportional to skin’s firmness and elasticity. Applying vitamin C can help your skin get a tightening effect overall while making your skin look more toned and firmer.

8. Protects From UV Rays Caused By Sunlight

If you didn’t know by now that excessive oxidant stress can cause depletion in vitamin C levels, well now you do. Vitamin C is also observed to be lower in photo-damaged or aged skin. Sun causes damage through molecules known as free radicals, though vitamin C is rich in antioxidants, which prevents these free radicals molecules to cause damage to the skin

9. Helps in Healing Wounds

Providing the right amount of Vitamin C to your body can result in a positive effect on gene expression in your skin. This can result in increased cell proliferation, increased cell motility, and faster repair of damaged DNA bases.

10. Helps in Soothing Sunburns

Vitamin C also accelerates cell turnover, which means it helps in replacing damaged cells with new ones. Having a combination of Vitamin C and Vitamin C can help your skin reduce injury due to UV radiation. The combination of vitamins also decreases inflammation that is induced by excess UV exposure.

11. Helps In Reducing Appearance of Under-Eye Circle

Vitamin C can easily smooth out fine lines by hydrating and plumping the under-eye area. It also helps with reducing discoloration in the under-eye circles. You can also get rid of under-eye bags by adding retinol to your skincare routine.

We here at the BAO Laboratory have a retinol formula that is all that you will ever need and the best part is that it’s organic and chemical-free so you can say goodbye to reactions. Our Prob5HA serum’s drop has 300 times more concentrated hyaluronic acid compared to a regular hyaluronic acid on the market.

The Prob5HA has different molecular weights that are small, medium, and large. Each weight has its own significance when it comes to your skin. We have specifically designed these weights of molecules to ensure that your skin gets the deep effect of vitamins in every layer of the skin improving elasticity and reducing inflammation altogether.

How to Use a Vitamin C Serum

Though most of the products containing vitamin C show little to no reaction but all skin products do have side effects. So here we will be discussing the right way to use vitamin C serum. First you would want to apply the serum over a small area of skin that is easy to hide, that area can be your forearm.

Apply a small amount of the serum over the area and wait for 24 hours. If there is no reaction or side effect then you can apply the serum to the desired parts of your skin. In case of hives, rashes and redness discontinue the use of the product immediately.

When you are using it full-time then it is safe to use the instructions given on the product’s label. Though one good rule of thumb is to apply the serum once or twice a day after cleansing, toning your skin and after applying the serum feel free to moisturize.

Factors that Should Be Considered When Buying a Serum

When looking for an ideal vitamin C formula, one should consider 4 basic factors as they hold great significance in the making of serum and can have an amazing impact on your skin as well.

1. Form

If you didn’t know by now that vitamin C can exist in the form of different names on a label. The one form you should look for is L-ascorbic acid as it is the most effective one when it comes to vitamin C.

2. Ingredients

Yes, Vitamin C alone is good but what if it’s combined with vitamin E. You can consider vitamin E and Vitamin C as best friends that go well together when it comes to skin care. Vitamin E helps stabilize vitamin C for long lasting effect and skin protection.

3. Concentration

When we talk about concentration level, the ideal level should be in between 10 to 20 percent. You surely want a concentration level that is above 8 percent for maximum effectiveness but don’t go too far with this as 20% concentration can lead to irritation and doesn’t really increase the benefit of vitamin C.

4. Packaging

One thing you want to keep in mind while opting for a serum is the packaging of the formula. Exposure to heat, air and light can degrade your serum as well leading it to lose its effectiveness

Our Ideal Endymion's Luminous C Formula

With every factor under consideration, we at the BAO Laboratory made sure that we came with a formula that had it all. And yet we did! Our very own Endymion’s Luminous C.

For starters, the formula has 11 different types of vitamin C making it perfect for all skin types. We made sure that the concentration is just perfect so we kept it balanced at 15% while the value of pH is 6.

Lastly we made sure to add lipid bilayer which is like a non-oxidizable liquid cap that keeps the bottle sealed and the effect of vitamins retains so you get it perfect every time.

Final Words

Understanding the importance of vitamin C is extremely crucial and the BAO Laboratory truly understands what it’s like to go for multiple products. So we decided to create an all in one solution that will perfectly blend with your skincare routine and will help you achieve fast desiring results.