Vitamin C, also known as ascorbic acid, is  a water-soluble  vitamin as well as a powerful antioxidant, which is successfully used in cosmetics. Thanks to its strong antioxidative and photo-protective properties,  it has anti-ageing effects and prevents skin slackening, protects against UV rays, also acting as a  lightening agent.

C Vitamin in cosmetics: instability and solutions

However, C vitamin is instable  in many respects and susceptible to oxidative degradation to dehydroascorbic acid, thus becoming inactive. There are many possible approaches for the stabilization of C vitamin in cosmetics; afters years of research and studies, at Carlo Sessa we feel we can state the best choice is a pure and encasulated product, such as CMD CosminC, please see our product catalogue.

C Vitamin in cosmetics: pure  and encapsulated is better

Pure and encapsulated C vitamin has a very high stability to water, air, sun light and heat, as well as no olfactory degradation or discoloration, no fototoxicity and an excellent stability over time.

The use of this pure and encapsulated C vitamin in its cosmetic preparation can have an moisturizing, anti-ageing and lightening effect, so that it’s quite suitable for products such as sun creams, solar protections, solar serum and lotions.

For further infos about cosmetic products, please see Carlo sessa catalogue.