If you haven’t yet incorporated vitamin C into your daily routine, you need to get on it! And we’re not talking about drinking orange juice every morning or popping vitamin C pills when you feel a cold coming on (although ingesting this glorious vitamin definitely helps boost your immune system). Vitamin C, when applied topically every day (it’s water-soluble, so it won’t stick around in your system for long), has some pretty amazing benefits for your biggest organ – your skin!
The dermatologist-favourite ingredient can help slow early skin aging, prevent sun damage, and improve the appearance of wrinkles, dark spots and acne. And because vitamin C is an antioxidant – meaning it fights toxins on the skin that come from air and other pollutants – it has rejuvenating and enhancing qualities as well…meaning it can help brighten your complexion, even out your skin tone, and help to reduce hyperpigmentation.
Of course, not all vitamin C-infused moisturizers and serums are created equal, and finding the right one to help revive radiance to your skin can be challenging. One of our recent favourites comes courtesy of L’Oréal Paris: their L’Oréal Paris 12% Pure Vitamin C Serum has been clinically shown to help reduce the three key signs of early aging (tone, pores, lines) and is suitable for most skin types, including sensitive skin.
L’Oréal Paris 12% Pure Vitamin C Serum, the beauty brand’s strongest vitamin C serum, is formulated with L-ascorbic acid, the purest form of 12% vitamin C that is typically recommended by dermatologists. With its powerful 12% concentration, the formula helps brighten the complexion and reduces the look of pores, while additional ingredients like vitamin E and salicylic acid work synergistically to help reveal brighter, smoother, younger-looking skin. Clinical results, which have been validated by dermatologists, have shown that this silky brightening face serum helps to visibly reduce the three key signs of early aging: In one month, skin looks 2X brighter and pores look 2x less visible. Those are results that are pretty hard to achieve with other over-the-counter products.
If you haven’t yet integrated vitamin C into your skincare routine, you can be assured that it can be safely used with most other active ingredients and can be integrated into both your morning and evening skincare routines. A good rule of thumb is to cleanse, tone, apply vitamin C serum, and then moisturize and don’t forget to finish your routine with an SPF in the morning. It’s that simple! Once integrated into your beauty routine, L’Oréal Paris’s 12% Pure Vitamin C Serum does all of the work, instantly increasing radiance, and with continued use will help to reduce the appearance of enlarged pores and fine lines, brighten and refine the skin, and visibly even tone for a younger-looking complexion.
L’Oréal Paris 12% Pure Vitamin C Serum is available in 30 ml ($47.99); it is available online and at most retailers across the country including Shoppers Drug Mart, Walmart, London Drugs, and Jean Coutu.
* This article was sponsored by L’Oréal Paris, but the opinions are our own.
