Secret Agent VI - Vitamin C Antioxidant

Vitamin C has been used topically for many decades. There have been countless studies done that show it has many beneficial properties to help our skin when used on a daily basis. We highly suggest that you use a product containing this each morning to help your skin look its best. Our product is infused with Vitamin C, in multiple forms, to help bring to you the following benefits: 

• Protect your skin from UVA & UVB damages. [3,7]

• Protect your face from the effects of aging. [10]

• Neutralize free radicals prior to causing damage. [1,2,6]

• Stimulate collagen production. [1,2,3]

• Increase the skin's moisture/glycosaminoglycans. [9]

• Improve pigmentation issues. [4,11]

• Increase elasticity. [5]

• Reduce fine lines. [3]

• Minimize the height of atrophic scars when used with silicone gel. [12]

Tetrahexyldecyl Ascorbate has the following cited properties: 

• Deeply penetration [13,14, 15]

• Synthesizes collagen. [10]

• Scavenges free radicals [15]

• Inhibits melanogeneses and tyrosinase activity [4,11, 15]

• Prevention of cell damage

• Activates the fibroblasts [4,8]

• Reduces comedo formation and inflammation in acne

AAP Vitamin C is known for

• Reduction of fine lines and wrinkles.

• Skin lightening, brightening.

• Greatly minimized age spots. 

• Healing inflammation.

• Biosynthesis of collagen increased by over 140%

• Age spot reduction. *Slows melanin production.

• Protects skin barrier. 

• Attracts moisture to the skin from the environment.

People throw around the words "free radicals" and "antioxidants" every day. Maybe you are not sure exactly what that means, so we would like to educate you a bit here at Platinum.
Absolutely everything is made of molecules. You, me and the trees, we are all just molecules. These molecules are made out of atoms, and the atoms are made from pairs of electrons. The problem arises when an atom turns up missing an electron. Missing electrons happen every day. Breathing, UV exposure, pollution and even smoking all destroy electron bonds. After a bond is broken, the single odd ball electron is now considered a free radical.

Unfortunately for our skin, free radicals are very unstable and will try to grab another electron to gain their stability again. They generally attack the nearest stable molecule to steal an electron. When that molecule now loses its electron, it too becomes a free radical, beginning a domino effect. Once the process is started, it can cascade, finally resulting in the destruction of a living cell.

Free radicals damage everything they contact. They contribute to photo-aging by causing oxidative stress to cells in all layers of the skin. They disrupt proper cell function and prevent proper cellular repairs. This allows for prolific cellular damage, decay and abnormal cellular growth.

Unbalanced electron damages can appear on your skin in numerous forms. Pigmentation, or brown spotting is probably the most common complaint. But broken blood vessels and skin that is slack and loose from damaged elastin is a close second. Free radicals can also break down collagen fibers and thus stimulate new wrinkles.

Let’s look up close to a fiber of collagen. Collagen is made up of numerous atoms and electrons all perfectly balanced. If a free radical was created by your sun tanning this afternoon, it is going to search out another electron. If it grabs one from your collagen fiber, NOW your fiber is damaged and there are more free radicals running around anew. When there end up being several damages, the collagen becomes dysfunctional and loses its elastic quality. Now you have loose skin and (with your constant tanning/smoking/…) most likely spotting and excess wrinkles. Let’s stop the damages before they occur!

Vitamin C is a very powerful and well researched antioxidant [1,2,6] that can stop the damages before they happen. It is considered a scavenger, with the single minded goal to prevent cell and tissue damages. It can neutralize the free radicals by donating one of its own electrons. This in effect ends the electron stealing attacks. *Vitamin C never becomes a free radical after donating electrons because it is stable in any form. Your answer to free radicals is Vitamin C! 

There are many C serums out there with super high percentages. Platinum Skin Care is all about that! But with vitamin C, we take a different stand. Topical Vitamin C provides more than twenty times the amount of Vitamin C found in normal skin, so extremely high percentages are quite wasteful and will not be absorbed and utilized. A topical application should be around 10% or so. Ours has 18% THDA, 2% Superox-C (which is many times more potent than natural C) plus the aminopropyl ascorbyl phosphate. This is really "over the top"... but we know how our customers like their products and we always deliver!

By applying a Vitamin C product every day, it can help to protect your skin from UVA & UVB rays damaging effects [3,7]. *Ultraviolet light exposure depletes up to two-thirds of your skin's Vitamin C stores. These levels cannot be re-obtained by ingestion of Vitamin C! They can only be reached with a topical application. 

Skin inflammations have been reported to be alleviated by topical use of Vitamin C on ultraviolet radiation-induced erythema. This same study also showed a protective effect on the inflammatory response when applied, even after sun exposure from ultraviolet sunburn. Applied daily, our serum will help to protect your skin from UVA & UVB rays damaging effects. It will stimulate collagen production, improve skin's tone and texture, improve pigmentation issues and increase elasticity of the skin. Many studies have shown a daily application of Vitamin C to be extremely helpful in the control of acne! Apply in the a.m. after cleansing and toning.

Purified Water, Tetrahexyldecyl Ascorbate, Ethoxydiglycol, Butylene Glycol, Cetyl Alcohol, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Glyceryl Stearate, Terminalia Ferdinandiana Fruit Extract, Aminopropyl Ascorbyl Phosphate, Resveratrol, Ubiquinone, Ferulic Acid, Glycerin, Tocopherol, Camellia Sinensis (Green Tea) Leaf Extract, Cyclomethicone, Dimethicone, Sodium Acrylate/ Sodium Acryloyl Dimethyl Taurate Copolymer, Polysorbate 20, Sodium Citrate, Phenoxyethanol, Ethylhexylglycerin.    1oz (30ml.)