What does vitamin C have to do with skin care? Vitamin C may or may not be an effective anti-aging product, but it is a powerful antioxidant. There is a lot of debate about vitamin C and skin care. A lot...
There is a lot of debate about vitamin C and skin care. A lot of anti-aging creams will say they have vitamin C in them. Very little vitamin C is absorbed from the skin surface. Vitamin C is essential for the normal integrity, particularly the blood vessels in the skin. One of the symptoms of scurvy, which is a vitamin C deficiency, is scaling of the skin, which produces little areas of hemorrhage in the skin because the blood vessel - the walls of the blood vessels - aren't as capable. Vitamin C is also considered an antioxidant, so it is supposed to cut down on the aging process. Some people recommend taking very high doses of vitamin C to slow down the aging process, but there has been no real good scientific proof that this helps.
The topical application of vitamin C in most creams is not absorbed. So I guess the deficiency is bad, but the normal vitamin C that we all get in our everyday diet is adequate for normal skin care.
