Even Out Your Skin Tone with the Melanin-Reducing Benefits of Vitamin C

Vitamin C is one of the most popular and effective health supplement ingredients, for good reason. When ingested in the form of a fruit or a pill, it can boost your immune system, decrease cholesterol, and even protect against heart disease and certain forms of cancer. When applied topically, its powerful list of benefits is extended to your skin’s appearance, as it helps to correct skin conditions such as hyperpigmentation, age spots, and melasma. This powerhouse vitamin inhibits your skin’s production of melanin, helping to even out your skin’s coloration and brighten its overall appearance.

Today we’ll take a look at how to use the powerful natural benefits of this common vitamin to your advantage and highlight some Vitamin-C-packed skin products to fight those pesky dark patches.

How does Vitamin C work to lessen dark spots?

Darker patches on the skin show up as moles, freckles, birthmarks, age spots, sun spots, acne scars, melisma, or hyperpigmentation. If you suffer from any of these dark areas, you know they can be difficult to fight. But with Vitamin C on your side, your skin’s future looks a lot brighter.

Vitamin C’s antioxidant qualities help to reduce the appearance of irregularly dark sin patches. This all has to do with its powerful influence on melanocytes. Melanin cells are responsible for creating dark areas on your skin, when your skin’s deep layer of melanocytes turn the enzyme tyrosinase into melanin. When Vitamin C steps in, it inhibits the growth of tyrosinase, causing less melanin pigment to be produced.

Other causes of excess skin pigmentation include UV radiation and pollutants in the air. These environmental hazards produce harmful free radicals in the skin which cause it to darken and age prematurely. The antioxidant power of Vitamin C fights these damaging free radicals. At the same time, it also helps your skin to produce the antioxidant Vitamin E, the skin-lightening antioxidant glutathione, and the skin-tightening agent collagen. It’s clear to see why Vitamin C gets so much attention and is known as a powerhouse ingredient. To really harness its effects, look for a skincare product that’s right for your skin’s unique concerns.

Some Great Vitamin C Products to get Your Melanin Levels Under Control:

Vitamin C30x Retinol Serum

Vitamin C andVitamin A (Retinol) work together in this powerful serum to stop free radicals from damaging your skin’s cells. Retinol also increases your skin’s collagen production, for smoother, younger looking skin. Vitamin C reduces the appearance of age spots and discoloration.

Vitamin C 30x Anti-Aging Serum

The concentration of Vitamin C in this anti-aging serum stimulates your skin’s collagen production while it helps to fight free radicals caused by sun damage, and blocks the effects of hyperpigmentation. These effects are seen almost immediately after application, leaving your skin tone visibly balanced and evening out any dark patches. Perfect for women with hyperpigmentation around their lip and eye areas.

3-Day Vitamin C Facelift Kit

If your skin is looking a bit dull or tired, the Vitamin C Facelift Kit can provide a quick pick-me-up, leaving it visibly refreshed after three days of use. The exfoliating power of alpha hydroxyl acids combined with the brightening effects of Vitamin C make this kit a revitalizing routine that’s also perfect for use in-between peels.

AHA & Vitamin C Brightening 70% Peel Kit – Deep Strength

If you suffer from prominent hyperpigmentation and are looking for a more serious treatment, consider the AHA Vitamin C Deep Peel Kit. It leaves your skin tone visibly smoother and lightens serious age spots, especially after repeated use. Make sure to prepare your skin for this treatment by exfoliating daily for a week before you try this deep peel.

Benefits Of Sunscreen

Early signs of aging and dryness are a result of unprotected sun exposure. The youthful appearance of the skin is forfeited when the skin has excessive exposure to the sun, causing fine lines, deep wrinkles and loss of collagen. Sun Protection factor can help retain the moisture and create a shield on the skin when exposed to harmful UV rays. An SPF can maintain the skin’s ability to produce collagen. SPF can reduce the risk of developing sun induced skin cancers such as Carcinoma.

A high level SPF can help you avoid the expense of future laser treatments that could be needed for the skin to correct damage to the skin caused by the sun. Discoloration and age spots may start to appear on certain areas due to aging and applying an SPF can reduce the chances of these areas being exposed to harmful UVA and UVB rays. There is no question that to maintain the best appearance of the supple, youthful, and healthy skin that an SPF is a must-do in your daily skincare regime.

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End of summer skin care tips.

No matter how responsible you were about sun protection this summer, the chances are that your skin was exposed to UV rays more than usual. Even if you practiced responsible skin care and always used sun block or sunscreen, you still absorbed environmental damage from the sun. If you were less responsible, then you may have absorbed enough UV radiation to lead to age and sun spots in the future, premature wrinkles and even skin diseases. While you can’t travel back in time and stay out of the sun entirely you can help to undo some of the damage that carefree, relaxing summer days may have done to your skin.

Each episode of UV exposure that you experienced over the summer causes a surge in the level of free radicals in your system.  These free radical surges damaged your collagen, elastin or melanin—damage that cumulates and eventually results in older looking, damaged skin. Focus on a diet that’s rich in fresh fruits and vegetables. You may want to emphasize foods that are particularly high in antioxidants such as pomegranates, blueberries, acai, darker greens and even green tea. Getting stronger skin begins beneath the surface of the skin, so be sure to eat antioxidant rich foods and take antioxidant rich internal dietary supplements.

For the best results, though, you’ll want to combine an internal antioxidant diet with topical antioxidant skin care. MedPeel Superfruits Prevention skin care products are specifically developed to combine several powerful antioxidants and the power of Vitamin-C to topically boost your skin and restore a radiant, younger, healthy glow.  Promote better cell turnover and healthier skin with daily exfoliation products such as the Glycolic Micro Peel Scrub or Glycolic 10% Daily Exfoliator.