As we age our skin loses its ability to produce the natural substances that make our skin stay young, firm and elastic.

While there are many topical creams in the market designed to recovery your youthful looking skin, some work and some don’t. So you need to be careful and identify the ingredients that you want to use on your skin.

Topical vitamin C is used in some skin care products, because vitamin C has been proven scientifically to reduce wrinkles and fine lines by increasing the natural production of collagen in your body.

However there are different opinions about weather if vitamin C should be used on topical creams or just in oral supplements. According to some experts the practical use of Vitamin C in skin care products is difficult because its unstable due to the following reasons:

1. When vitamin C is exposed to the air it undergoes oxidation, which makes it less effective and can produce free radical therefore damaging your skin rather than helping.
2. Also vitamin C products tend to be irritating for a lot of people, because a vitamin c formulation needs at least 10% strong in order to boost collagen and reduce wrinkles. Vitamin C can become highly acidic and this concentration and thus irritate sensitive skin.

However, there has been a few solutions that were developed:

1. Anhydrous Vitamin C, which improves the stability of vitamin C and reduce risk of irritation. Vitamin C Derivatives, tend to be less irritating and more stable.
2. Anhydrous vitamin C combo, is possible the best solution by combining water soluble and oil soluble forms of vitamin c.

However there are other vitamins that can be applied in topical creams and reduce wrinkles due to their potent anti oxidants.

Last but not least, another way to get vitmain c is to eat healthy foods and vegetables that contain anti oxidants. Multi vitamins are also very effective in improving your skin health and therefore reduce wrinkles.

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