Back To Basics: How to make the most out of vitamin C in skincare

Topical vitamin C, which is increasingly being used in skincare products, can help deliver the ingredient directly to the skin. PHOTO ILLUSTRATION: PEXELS
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SINGAPORE – Long touted by science as one of the most potent ingredients to help fight ageing, vitamin C, or ascorbic acid, delivers a spectrum of benefits, which includes protecting the skin against pollution and sun damage, as well as obliterating wrinkles, fine lines and hyperpigmentation.

While vitamin C levels in the top and middle layers of the skin are abundant when one is young, they begin to decline as one ages and the skin becomes less able to store what one has obtained from food or supplements.

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