Ask Jean: Why Do I Want Vitamin C?

We need to reply your most urgent questions—or, , simply the issues that you just’re inquisitive about. Please maintain them coming to: [email protected]. Under, a q for our magnificence director, Jean Godfrey-June.

Pricey Jean, You say vitamin C’s a very powerful step in your morning pores and skin routine—how do you apply it for one of the best outcomes, and the place does it go in your routine by way of order? —Dara M.

Pricey Dara, You could possibly be a young person or you possibly can be in your seventies—doesn’t matter: Vitamin C provides your pores and skin a glow that’s lovely and noticeable, whereas enhancing it general by combating free radicals (compounds that break down our pores and skin and age us). It’s been studied extensively, however strive it for per week and inform me you don’t begin getting unprompted compliments in your pores and skin. Vitamin C actually is that good.

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   goop Magnificence GOOPGLOW 20% Vitamin
   C + Hyaluronic Acid
   Glow Serum goop, $125/$112 with
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The vitamin C is that this new, two-part serum from goop. It’s highly effective—20% is a excessive proportion—and it hydrates on the similar time, treating completely different layers of your pores and skin with three completely different molecular sizes of moisturizing hyaluronic acid. The mix leaves my pores and skin glowy, dewy, plumped, and simply better-looking, all day lengthy.

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The shock, for anybody who’s ever used a vitamin C serum earlier than, is that it stays energetic and potent proper right down to the final drop. Many vitamin C serums degrade rapidly by way of efficiency—even these stuffed with preservatives—however the goop workforce has ingeniously solved this downside. When you’ve acquired it house, take out the 2 lovely bottles (really, I need to stay contained in the tall pointy one, a cross between one thing from Whoville, an architectural masterpiece excessive within the mountains of Paraguay, and the inside of a toasted marshmallow).

The brown bottle comprises the powdered vitamin C, and the Whoville is the hyaluronic acid serum; you crack the highest off of the hyaluronic, pour the contents into the bottle of vitamin C, screw on the cap with the dropper, and it’s prepared—and it’s recent. Which means that as an alternative of sitting on a shelf oxidizing and rapidly changing into much less energetic, your serum prompts solely while you combine it collectively that first time. And we’ve designed it in order that if you happen to use it daily, it ought to stay energetic from the day you combine it right down to the final drop.

THE ROUTINE

I do like it within the morning, very first thing, however you may also use it at evening. Should you cleanse within the morning, cleanse first (I don’t, but when your pores and skin is tremendous oily otherwise you love an a.m. cleanse, go for it). I press a couple of drops of the serum into my pores and skin and wait a couple of minutes for it to essentially do its work, unencumbered. This ready could be superstition on my half, however I feel it does a little bit further one thing. I’ve some sips of espresso and determine what to put on.

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   Furtuna Pores and skin
   Rinascita
   Delle Olive
   Replenishing
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Then I’m going again in with some extra moisture, as a result of I’m historical. (You don’t must be historical to want moisture, but when your pores and skin is oily, the serum plus SPF could be all you want.) The Rinascita Della Olive Replenishing Balm from Furtuna Pores and skin is the final word on this division, a cerulean-blue magnolia-leaf-scented salve that soothes like nothing else because it sinks into pores and skin.

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   Furtuna Pores and skin
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   Beautycounter Dew Pores and skin Moisturzing
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Once more I watch for a minute or two—invariably nonetheless undecided on what to put on—for the balm to totally do its ultramoisturizing, skin-calming work. With my pores and skin plump with vitamin C, plant extracts, and hydration, I’m prepared for mineral SPF. For daily (not the seaside or Mount Everest), I take advantage of the world’s most flattering pores and skin tint, which occurs to be SPF 20. Referred to as Dew Pores and skin, it’s a complexion-smoothing, glow-enhancing miracle that everybody ought to have.

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   Beautycounter Dew Pores and skin Moisturzing Protection goop, $50

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If what to put on continues to be a query, I’m going with my foolproof Hadley cardigan and blue Lev denims. The glow I get from vitamin C modifications the way in which I really feel about my pores and skin; the Hadley-Lev combo provides me the identical feeling: simple confidence.

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ABOUT THE SERUM

This new each day glow serum combines two skin-care powerhouses, L-ascorbic acid (confirmed in analysis to be the purest, best-for-skin type of the antioxidant vitamin C) and moisturizing hyaluronic acid (a hydrator that’s naturally current within the physique). The distinctive two-part design maximizes efficiency and freshness, delivering a serum that stays energetic all over its use. Earlier than your first use, combine the tremendous potent 20% vitamin C powder with the hyaluronic acid serum. (There are three completely different molecular sizes of hyaluronic acid current to penetrate completely different layers of the pores and skin, in addition to the antioxidant superfruit Australian kakadu plum.) The components work synergistically to assist brighten the looks of the pores and skin, considerably enhancing its firmness, tone, texture, and hydration and leaving it wanting radiant, luminous, and wholesome.