Boost and protect collagen with topical vitamin C and Argan Oil for firmer skin

The Benefits of Topical Vitamin C with Argan Oil for skin

How to use Topical Vitamin C and Argan Oil to boost and protect your collagen levels for firmer skin

Revitalize Ageing Skin with Topical Vitamin C and Argan Oil

Overexposure to sun accelerates skin ageing by degrading collagen and triggering oxidative stress in the skin.
Results from clinical trials show that when applied topically, vitamin C promotes collagen formation and challenges the effects of free radicals, helping maintain firm and youthful skin.

The benefits of applying topical vitmains C work in a similar way to the benefits of Argan Oil

These time-honored natural remedies were used by ancient civilizations to heal skin can help overcome these effects.
In Tibet women would rub sea buckthorn on their face and hands. Native Americans made a vitamin C-rich paste out of rose petals to moisten and heal their skin
Many common plants and herbs contain such as rose hips, sea buckthorn, and other fruits contain very high vitamin c levels that give them their potent skin-rejuvenating powers.

Overall, the amount of collagen in the skin tends to decline with age, an ongoing process that is accelerated by a number of factors like sunlight, smoking, free radicals, and inflammation. As the synthesis of new collagen slows down, topical vitamin C is one of the most effective ways to boost collagen synthesis and slow its degradation.

While oral supplementation with vitamin C is important for maintaining one’s overall health, it is not very effective at increasing skin concentrations of vitamin C because its absorption is limited by active transport mechanisms in the gut. The most effective method for replenishing vitamin C in the skin is therefore to go straight to the source, and apply it directly to the skin.

Collagen constitutes more than a third of all protein in the body and about 75% of the skin.12 From our bones and teeth to blood vessels and cartilage, collagen is the main connective tissue that holds us together.
What makes collagen a sort of supermolecule, however, is its three-dimensional triple helix architecture. No wonder the tensile strength of collagen is greater than steel wire of the same weight. Understandably, the making of such a complex structure as collagen can only be accomplished in several steps. And vitamin C is involved in every one of them.

clinical trials
Several clinical trials have discovered that topical vitamin C provides beneficial effects on aged and photodamaged skin. A placebo-controlled study performed in 25 volunteers showed that those who topically applied a topical formulation of ascorbic acid (vitamin C) experienced a reduction in fine lines and wrinkles in aged skin after a relatively short time period of 12 weeks.
Other studies have substantiated these benefits and over a three-month double-blind study in 19 patients with moderately photodamaged facial skin patients discovered a significant improvement in fine wrinkling, roughness, skin tone, and sallowness on the side treated with ascorbic acid compared with the control side. Photo assessment uncovered a 57.9% improvement in vitamin C-treated patients compared with the control group.
Besides its uses in photorejuvenation, vitamin C has also been shown to be of benefit in patients with acne, both helping to prevent and diminish acne lesions.

In addition to all this, topical vitamin C can reverse yet another aspect of skin aging: age spots (or lenti-gines).These dark areas are where UV-induced oxidation causes melanin to pool in the upper layers of the skin.

How to use Argan Oil and topical Vitamin C to protect your skin

Vitamin C is not only necessary for collagen production and maintenance, but it is also a potent antioxidant that can neutralize free radicals in the skin. So, topical vitamin C works to boost the anti oxidant effect of the ultra high Vitamin-E levels in Argan Oil. But why is protection against free radical damages and why are anti oxidants in Vitamins and Argan oil so important?

Free radicals are atoms or molecules that are very chemically reactive due to missing an electron – a negatively charges particle in the nucleus of an atom. Because of this, their destructive power is concentrated in the place where they are created, which is mostly in the cells’ mitochondria – within cells in your body or on the surface of the skin.
Free radicals seek opportunities to complete their odd electron. So, they will attack any nearby chemical compounds including chemical compounds that are involved in important reactions in your body, or even a part of a DNA molecule. As a result, the damage left behind can leave damaged cells throughout the body, such as in heart muscle cells, nerve cells, and the skin.

The anti oxidant, free radical dmagaes the collagen by stealing an electron from one of the proteins in a strand of collagen. This causes a change in the chemical structure of the collagen at that point, creating a tiny break in the strand. Once a bundle of collagen has multiple points of damage that occur over the years, it becomes damaged and disorganized. As a result, our skin begins to get that familar sag and wrinkled effect.

Although our skin naturally has cellular enzymes and other metabolic processes to deal with this oxidative damage, ageing and environmental stresses like sunlight, smoking, and pollution, can eventually overpower these protective controls. One of our Argan Oil based products, Sahara Gold, was formulated with a natural skin repairing oil which combats UV sun damage as it occurs.

Applying a antioxidant like vitamin C in combination with Argan Oil which is also rich in anti oxidants, Vitamin and Linoleic Fatty Acid ( G.L.A.), is a very effective way to boost the skin’s natural protection against age-causing free radicals over the long term.