Vitamin C is a powerhouse ingredient that offers numerous benefits for your skin. From boosting collagen production to protecting against sun damage, this vitamin plays a vital role in maintaining healthy and radiant skin. And who wouldn’t want that?

Firstly, vitamin C stimulates collagen production, which helps to improve the elasticity and firmness of your skin. This can reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, giving you a more youthful complexion.

Secondly, vitamin C acts as a powerful antioxidant, protecting your skin from harmful UV rays and environmental stressors. This can help alleviate the effects of sun damage, such as sunburn and premature ageing.

Additionally, vitamin C has the ability to reduce hyperpigmentation, such as dark spots and acne scars, by inhibiting the production of melanin. Therefore your skin looks smoother, brighter and more radiant. 

Lastly, vitamin C has anti-ageing effects, as it helps to neutralise free radicals and promote cell turnover, resulting in smoother and brighter skin.

At TEMPLESPA, we offer a range of skincare products enriched with vitamin C to help you achieve a healthy and glowing complexion. We’ll have a vitamin C product perfect for your skincare routine, but first let’s deep dive into the benefits of this wonder ingredient:

 

Boosts Collagen Production

Collagen is a protein crucial for maintaining the elasticity and firmness of our skin. As we age, natural collagen production decreases, leading to fine lines, wrinkles, and sagging skin.

Vitamin C, also known as ascorbic acid, is a powerful antioxidant that stimulates collagen synthesis. When applied topically it encourages collagen production, helping to counteract the effects of ageing.

Increased collagen levels improve skin elasticity, making it more resilient and less prone to sagging. This results in a firmer complexion, reducing wrinkles and fine lines. Moreover, vitamin C promotes a more even skin tone by reducing melanin production, the pigment responsible for dark spots and hyperpigmentation.

By boosting collagen production, vitamin C also aids in healing wounds, scars, and acne. It supports new tissue formation, helping to repair damaged skin and reduce blemishes.

 

Support Against Sun Damage

As an antioxidant, vitamin C neutralises the harmful effects of free radicals caused by UV exposure. These free radicals can lead to oxidative stress, damaging skin cells and accelerating signs of ageing.

UV rays generate free radicals that attack collagen and elastin fibres, causing wrinkles, fine lines, and sagging skin. However, vitamin C can counteract these effects by scavenging free radicals and preventing further harm.

Using vitamin C in your sun care routine provides preventative benefits. By applying a vitamin C-infused serum or moisturiser into your skincare regimen, you enhance your skin's natural defence against UV damage.

 

Reduces Hyperpigmentation

Vitamin C is known for its ability to reduce hyperpigmentation, such as dark spots and uneven skin tone. It works by inhibiting melanin production, the pigment responsible for our skin, hair, and eye colour.

When applied topically, vitamin C regulates tyrosinase activity, an enzyme involved in melanin production. By inhibiting this enzyme, vitamin C helps prevent melanin overproduction, leading to hyperpigmentation. 

Studies show that vitamin C effectively treats dark spots and evens out skin tone. It lightens existing pigmentation and prevents new spots from forming. So keeping on top of application over time is a brilliant way to help reduce the appearance of hyperpigmentation.

Look for products with stable forms of vitamin C, like L-ascorbic acid or ascorbyl glucoside, as they are more potent and less likely to degrade.

For best results, apply a vitamin C serum or cream onto clean, dry skin every morning and follow up with a broad-spectrum sunscreen to protect your skin from further UV damage.

Brilliant Against Anti-Ageing Effects

Vitamin C is a powerhouse ingredient in anti-ageing skincare. It offers numerous benefits, including reducing fine lines and wrinkles, improving skin firmness and texture, and enhancing overall skin health that we’ve already covered. 

Vitamin C reduces fine lines and wrinkles by stimulating collagen synthesis, promoting new collagen fibres in the skin. This helps plump the skin, smoothing out fine lines and wrinkles for a more youthful appearance.

Vitamin C also improves skin firmness and texture by inhibiting collagen and elastin breakdown, which maintain skin elasticity and firmness. By protecting these proteins from environmental stressors, vitamin C keeps the skin tight and supple.

To maximise anti-ageing benefits, vitamin C can be combined with other potent ingredients. For example, pairing it with hyaluronic acid provides intense hydration, plumping the skin and reducing wrinkles. Similarly, using it alongside retinol enhances collagen-boosting effects, resulting in smoother, more youthful skin.

Where To Find Vitamin C Skincare

Onto the fun part, how can you get your hands on vitamin C skincare? Here’s our top products for a glowing, radiant and youthful complexion:

Starting with the beginning of our skincare routine, our cleanser, and EASY GLOWING is an obvious vitamin C product of choice. The gel cleanser melts into the skin, transforming into an oil and then a milk when water is added. Packed with nourishing and brightening ingredients, perfect for lifting away makeup and oils.

We love an exfoliating product, and a toner like our GLOWCOLIC is perfect for an instant smooth and even-toned texture. Alongside AHAs like glycolic acid, the vitamin C in our exfoliating toner comes from orange fruit and grapefruit extracts which are a natural rich source to boost radiance.

To boost your exfoliation further, MOST REVEALING Glowing Skin Oxygen Peel is a fun mask to apply as it switches from a cool orange gel to bubbles that nibble away at dead skin cells with a fusion of acids. Again another fusion of natural fruit extracts boosts the vitamin C levels in this product!

A vitamin C serum is a classic option to incorporate this ingredient into your skincare routine. LET’S CONCENTRATE Skin Glowing Serum features ascorbyl glucoside which is a more stable form of vitamin C and works by being released when in contact with an enzyme on our skin. Which means a slow pro-longed release for long-term results and benefits!

Finishing any skincare routine, before your SPF of course, is a moisturiser and MOISTURE TO GLOW Radiance Moisturiser is a perfect option. A silky gel texture that glides onto the skin and brings vital radiance and energy to dull, lacklustre skin. 

You’ll also spot vitamin C across a few of our other skincare and body care products:

And many more…