What does vitamin C do for your skin?

Want to slow down skin ageing? Vitamin C is an absolute must-use in your beauty routine! It is a powerful antioxidant, meaning it reduces damage caused by free radicals.

Also, vitamin C boosts the natural production of collagen and elastin. This keeps your skin firm and supple. What’s more, it is an effective skincare ingredient to help reduce the appearance of age spots because it inhibits the enzyme that produces melanin. Pigmentation spots are small patches of melanin that accumulate on your skin as a result of sun exposure or hormones.

Finally, this vitamin also fights infections, soothing the skin and reducing redness. As you can see, vitamin C is a real allrounder!

Vitamin C naturally occurs in the body, but we don’t produce it ourselves. Dietary intake of vitamin C (by drinking orange juice, for instance) does not deliver enough vitamin C to the skin. You have to apply it topically.

In our Beauty Clinic, we use several products with vitamin C, including:

• All our hydrating gel masks, body wraps and massage oils with fruit extracts: we regularly alternate these products, using products with kiwi extracts one time and with red berry, mango, apple extracts etc the next. Vitamin C prevents water loss, so it ensures that your skin retains moisture for longer and stays better hydrated. That makes this vitamin the perfect ingredient in our hydrating gel masks!
• The fruit acid clay mask that we use in our mesotherapy treatment. This mask not only deeply cleanses the skin, it also stimulates blood flow and ensures that the cell structure is properly prepared to absorb the active ingredients of the products used.

We also sell a few vitamin C containing products for use at home:

• Deep-cleansing foam gel: a wonderful, foaming cleansing gel that cleanses your skin thoroughly but gently.
• Anti-acne gel: this is slightly drying and has an anti-inflammatory effect, preventing further clogged pores.
• Hand cream: vitamin C is also an active ingredient in our hand cream because your hands are particularly prone to premature ageing.

Mesotherapy is one of the professional, rejuvenating facial treatments offered at the Beauty Clinic. Read all about it here!