Ask Jean: Why Do I Need Vitamin C?

We need to reply your most urgent questions—or, you understand, simply the issues that you just’re interested by. Please hold them coming to: suggestions@goop.com. Below, a q for our magnificence director, Jean Godfrey-June.

Dear Jean, You say vitamin C’s an important step in your morning pores and skin routine—how do you apply it for the perfect outcomes, and the place does it go in your routine by way of order? —Dara M.

Dear Dara, You may very well be a teen or you can be in your seventies—doesn’t matter: Vitamin C offers your pores and skin a glow that’s lovely and noticeable, whereas enhancing it general by preventing 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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   C + Hyaluronic Acid
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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 identical time, treating completely different layers of your pores and skin with three completely different molecular sizes of moisturizing hyaluronic acid. The mixture 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 lively and potent proper right down to the final drop. Many vitamin C serums degrade shortly by way of efficiency—even these crammed with preservatives—however the goop workforce has ingeniously solved this downside. Once you’ve received it dwelling, take out the 2 lovable 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 incorporates 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 contemporary. Meaning that as an alternative of sitting on a shelf oxidizing and shortly turning into much less lively, your serum prompts solely once you combine it collectively that first time. And we’ve designed it in order that if you happen to use it day-after-day, it ought to stay lively from the day you combine it right down to the final drop.

THE ROUTINE

I do find it irresistible within the morning, very first thing, however you can too use it at night time. If 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 number 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 might be superstition on my half, however I believe 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 Skin
   Rinascita
   Delle Olive
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Then I am going again in with some extra moisture, as a result of I’m historic. (You don’t should be historic to want moisture, but when your pores and skin is oily, the serum plus SPF might be all you want.) The Rinascita Della Olive Replenishing Balm from Furtuna Skin is the last 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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Again I look ahead to 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 day-after-day (not the seaside or Mount Everest), I exploit the world’s most flattering pores and skin tint, which occurs to be SPF 20. Called Dew Skin, it’s a complexion-smoothing, glow-enhancing miracle that everybody ought to have.

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If what to put on remains to be a query, I am 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 offers me the identical feeling: simple confidence.

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ABOUT THE SERUM

This new day by 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 lively during its use. Before 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 trying radiant, luminous, and wholesome.