Ask Jean: Why Do I Want Vitamin C?
Printed on: March 1, 2024
Ask Jean: Why Do I Want Vitamin C?
We need to reply your most urgent questions—or, you realize, simply the issues that you just’re interested in. Please preserve them coming to: suggestions@goop.com. Under, a q for our magnificence director, Jean Godfrey-June.
Expensive Jean, You say vitamin C’s an important step in your morning pores and skin routine—how do you apply it for the most effective outcomes, and the place does it go in your routine when it comes to order? —Dara M.
Expensive Dara, You possibly can be an adolescent or you may be in your seventies—doesn’t matter: Vitamin C provides your pores and skin a glow that’s lovely and noticeable, whereas bettering it total by preventing free radicals (compounds that break down our pores and skin and age us). It’s been studied extensively, however attempt it for every week and inform me you don’t begin getting unprompted compliments in your pores and skin. Vitamin C actually is that good.
The vitamin C is that this new, two-part serum from goop. It’s highly effective—20% is a excessive share—and it hydrates on the similar time, treating totally different layers of your pores and skin with three totally different molecular sizes of moisturizing hyaluronic acid. The mix leaves my pores and skin glowy, dewy, plumped, and simply better-looking, all day lengthy.
The shock, for anybody who’s ever used a vitamin C serum earlier than, is that it stays energetic and potent proper all the way down to the final drop. Many vitamin C serums degrade shortly when it comes to efficiency—even these full of preservatives—however the goop staff has ingeniously solved this drawback. When you’ve bought it residence, take out the 2 lovable bottles (actually, 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 recent. Which means that as a substitute of sitting on a shelf oxidizing and shortly changing into much less energetic, your serum prompts solely once you combine it collectively that first time. And we’ve designed it in order that in case you use it daily, it ought to stay energetic from the day you combine it all the way down to the final drop.
THE ROUTINE
I do adore it within the morning, very first thing, however it’s also possible to use it at night time. 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 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 could 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.
Then I’m going again in with some extra moisture, as a result of I’m historic. (You don’t need to be historic 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 last word on this division, a cerulean-blue magnolia-leaf-scented salve that soothes like nothing else because it sinks into pores and skin.
Once more I anticipate a minute or two—invariably nonetheless undecided on what to put on—for the balm to completely 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 exploit the world’s most flattering pores and skin tint, which occurs to be SPF 20. Known as Dew Pores and skin, it’s a complexion-smoothing, glow-enhancing miracle that everybody ought to have.
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 best way 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 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 energetic right through its use. Earlier than your first use, combine the tremendous potent 20% vitamin C powder with the hyaluronic acid serum. (There are three totally different molecular sizes of hyaluronic acid current to penetrate totally different layers of the pores and skin, in addition to the antioxidant superfruit Australian kakadu plum.) The elements work synergistically to assist brighten the looks of the pores and skin, considerably bettering its firmness, tone, texture, and hydration and leaving it wanting radiant, luminous, and wholesome.
