About Secret Agent VI - Vitamin C Antioxidant
NEW PRODUCT ALERT! 6-18-2025
We have a NEW super antioxidant coming your way to replace our previous High Octane Vitamin C Serum. Our New Secret Agent VI is LOADED with antioxidants: THDA (C), AAP (C), Superox-C (kakadu plum C), Resveratrol, Ferulic Acid, Green Tea, and even COQ10 and Tocopherol. She is going to be the AntiOxidant of your Dreams! Ready to Protect your skin!
No stinging.
2 year shelf life!
Great for everyone. We can't WAIT to get this to you. Stay Tuned for Protective Duty!
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What does Vitamin C do for your skin?
Vitamin C is 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 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.
Dermatologists state that Vitamin C Serum should be an integral part of your daily regimen.
Can you apply niacinamide and Vitamin C together?
Research shows that you're safe to mix both niacinamide and vitamin C, either together in the same product or combined from different products. There is very outdated information from the 1960's that has been shown to be not valid in today's circumstances.
How Does Vitamin C Work as an Antioxidant? [1,2,6]
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.
What Does Free Radical Damage Look Like?
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!
How Can Vitamin C Stop Free Radicals From Damaging My Skin?
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!
What percentage of Vitamin C does my skin need?
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.
Vitamin C for skin. Plastic Surgeons, Dr. Shirley Madhere and Dr. Leif Rogers agree that a daily, topical application of L-Ascorbic acid (Vitamin C) facial is the #1 way to turn the clock back on your face. It can also be mixed with other anti-aging ingredients! Read on...
Recommendations:
- Apply our Vitamin C serum on skin for best results.
- Exfoliate with AHA's (Cleansers or Toners) before application of Vitamin C for best penetration.
- Apply Vitamin C in the morning - before any other creams.
- For an anti-aging - PUNCH - apply a Retinoid Serum in the evenings to complement your antioxidant.
How Do You Use Vitamin C Serum?
Our Super Agent VI is a creamy-serum. That is because it is an emulsion of water and oils. In order of application serums always go on prior to creams. We suggest applying any thinner serums first, then apply Super Agent VI.
Apply to freshly cleansed skin 1x daily.
STEP 1: CLEANSER
Anti-Aging Lactic Cleanser
Revitalizing Glycolic Cleanser
AB Cleanser
3-in-1 Cleanser
STEP 2: TONERS/ALCOHOL/ACID BASED PRODUCTS
Purify Revitalizing 6-in1 Toner
Fade Bright
Serum 15/30
STEP 3: WATER BASED SERUMS
Dr. Platinum Potions
Regenerate EGF
Nano Hyaluronic
Super Agent VI [am]
Lucky Potion No 9
Fusion A [pm]
Copper Serums [pm]
STEP 4: EYE PRODUCTS
Eyelift Caffeine Roller
Platinum Eyes Restoration Therapy
GHK Luxe
STEP 5: CREAMS
GABA Elite
Derma Snap 8LM
Vitamin B Complex
Basics Alphabet
Copper Creams
Acne Drying Lotion
STEP 6: OILS
Essentials FX
Pure Emu Oil
Essentials Healing Blend
STEP 7: SUN BLOCK
Cotz Flawless
Cotz Face
Cotz Sensitive
Cotz Lips
INGREDIENTS
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Citations:
1. Vitamin C attenuates ERK signaling to inhibit the regulation of collagen production by LL-37 in human dermal fibroblasts. Experimental Dermatology 2010; 19: e258–e264. Hyun Jeong Park, Sun Myeong Ock, Hee Jung Kim, Hong Jin Park, Young Bok Lee, Jung Min Choi, Chul Soo Cho, Jun Young Lee, Baik Kee Cho, Dae Ho Cho
2. Topically Applied Vitamin C Enhances the mRNA Level of Collagens I and III, Their Processing Enzymes and Tissue Inhibitor of Matrix Metalloproteinase 1 in the Human Dermis 1. Journal of Investigative Dermatology. 1 Part of this work was presented in poster form at the American Academy of Dermatology, San Francisco, CA, March 10–15, 2000. Betty V. Nusgens,Alain C. Colige,Charles A. Lambert,Charles M. Lapière,Philippe Humbert,André Rougier,Marek Haftek,Alain Richard,Pierre Creidi
3. The Roles of Vitamin C in Skin Health. Juliet M. Pullar, Anitra C. Carr, and Margreet C. M. Vissers: 23 Ways to reduce wrinkles PMCID: PMC5579659
4. Double-Blind, Half-Face Study Comparing Topical Vitamin C and Vehicle for Rejuvenation of Photodamage. Richard E. Fitzpatrick MD, Elizabeth F. Rostan MD *10% Lascorbic, 7% THDA.
5. Sodium l-ascorbate enhances elastic fibers deposition by fibroblasts from normal and pathologic human skin. J. Dermatol. Sci. 2014;75:173–182. Hinek A., Kim H.J., Wang Y., Wang A., Mitts T.F.
6. Ozone-induced damage in 3D-kkin model is prevented by topical vitamin C and vitamin E compound mixtures application. J. Dermatol. Sci. 2016;82:209–212. Valacchi G., Muresan X.M., Sticozzi C., Belmonte G., Pecorelli A., Cervellati F., Demaude J., Krol Y., Oresajo C.
7. Vitamin C compound mixtures prevent ozone-induced oxidative damage in human keratinocytes as initial assessment of pollution protection. Valacchi G., Sticozzi C., Belmonte G., Cervellati F., Demaude J., Chen N., Krol Y., Oresajo C.
8. Gene expression profiling reveals new protective roles for vitamin C in human skin cells. Free Radic. Biol. Med. 2009;46:78–87. Duarte T.L., Cooke M.S., Jones G.D.
9. Ascorbic acid stimulates production of glycosaminoglycans in cultured fibroblasts. Exp. Mol. Pathol. 1990;53:1–10. Kao J., Huey G., Kao R., Stern R.
10. The role of vitamin C in pushing back the boundaries of skin aging: An ultrasonographic approach. Clin. Cosmet. Investig. Dermatol. 2015;8:463–470. Crisan D., Roman I., Crisan M., Scharffetter-Kochanek K., Badea R.
11. Inhibition of UVR-induced tanning and immunosuppression by topical applications of vitamins C and E to the skin of hairless (hr/hr) mice. Pigment Cell Res. 2000;13:89–98. Quevedo W.C., Jr., Holstein T.J., Dyckman J., McDonald C.J., Isaacson E.L.
12. Improved scar appearance with combined use of silicone gel and vitamin C for Asian patients: A comparative case series. Aesthet. Plast. Surg. 2013;37:1176–1181. Yun I.S., Yoo H.S., Kim Y.O., Rah D.K.
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