Where Does Vitamin C Fit Into Your Routine?
We wear sunscreen to protect our skin and apply anti-aging ingredients to prevent wrinkles. But there is one superpowered ingredient that combines all the best skincare benefits into one. Vitamin C is a staple in our diets, but it also rounds out your morning skincare lineup thanks to its ability to protect, repair, and reverse signs of aging. Here’s what you need to know.
What Vitamin C Does
This potent antioxidant is celebrated as the best brightening ingredient on the market. And it boosts radiance and gives you a healthy glow in a few key ways.
Vitamin C is a protector. Not only does it fight against the free radicals created by aggressors like the sun, stress, and pollution that can break down your delicate collagen and elastin—vitamin C actually works to boost the benefits of sunscreen, making it more effective, so you get less sun damage over time. It also protects against and reverses damaging blue light, which we encounter every time we use our phones and other devices. Blue light might not give you a sunburn, but the rays penetrate deep down into the skin to speed up aging. So by protecting your skin with vitamin C, you end up with healthier-looking skin in the long run.
Vitamin C helps to repair skin. The ingredient not only defends against the damage that our skin is up against on a daily basis, it actually works to reverse the damage that’s already been done. You need vitamin C to help rebuild collagen and boost cell turnover for a youthful glow.
Vitamin C evens out your skin tone. The genius antioxidant actually inhibits the overproduction of melanin, caused by the sun, hormones, and postinflammatory hyperpigmentation, which creates dark spots and uneven tone. So the more you use vitamin C, the brighter, more even, and glowier your skin will look.
How to Use Vitamin C
The easiest way to get the biggest benefits from vitamin C is to use it in the form of a serum, since serums are typically the most highly active, potent products in your routine. So when you wake up, cleanse your face, exfoliate, then immediately pat a few drops of vitamin C serum onto your skin. Try to do this when skin is still slightly damp for the deepest penetration.
If you’re using Ever's Pure Results Regimen, apply your vitamin C serum daily during your serums step, after cleansing, exfoliating with Reveal Biomimetic Peel Pads and treating with Youthful Quattro Peptide Serum. Ever's Daytime Brightening Serum is part 10% vitamin C antioxidant serum and part beauty oil, so layers beautifully after Youthful Serum.
Finish your routine by topping your skin off with a moisturizer and chemical-free SPF in one to lock in hydration and fully protect your skin from UVA and UVB rays. While vitamin C helps protect skin from sun damage, it’s not a replacement for sunscreen—so it’s important to always use the two together.
