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Vitamin C in Cosmetic Products – Does it work? episode 211

The Beauty Brains

Vitamin C is known to play a role in collagen production in the skin. Well, in a study published in Dermatologic Surgery back in 2001 looking at this exact question, none of the derivatives significantly converted to L-ascorbic acid in the skin. Cosmetics are not allowed to do those things. In the US anyway.