Posts Tagged ‘ascorbic acid’
December 8th, 2020 by Dr. Hannah Sivak
Numbers make statements look more “attractive”, and advertisers use this psychological tool to manipulate people into buying junk. What does it mean by “50x more effective than other forms of Vitamin C”? Nothing. But that 50X catches your attention long enough for you to pay $140 for 30 mL of nothing serum. Numbers are no good unless there is a precise description of how they were obtained. Numbers are no good unless you can trust the source. And yet, the advertised chemical, tetrahexyldecyl ascorbate (THD ascorbate) is likely to have 0 (zero!) vitamin C activity. How do you measure vitamin C activity? Scurvy is caused by vitamin C deficiency and…
October 22nd, 2019 by Dr. Hannah Sivak
Because glutathione protects your skin from strong oxidants! Glutathione is one of the peptides that matter, and a lot. Glutathione is present in us and in most living beings for good reasons. Glutathione helps us cope with life at 21% oxygen (what we do have in the atmosphere). Respiring oxygen allows us get the most energy out of our food but it carries a price: Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS*), What are ROS*? Reactive oxygen containing molecules that are so desperate for electrons that will take them from anything and everything. There goes your DNA, your proteins, your lipids (vital for cell life) etc. In top of the ROS* we produce…
June 14th, 2019 by Dr. Hannah Sivak
How much is too much? The answer to this apparently simple question is very complicated: as complicated as the number of ingredients used in skin care. Also, for a good answer, you may have to go to numbers that are much smaller than a percent (1%) and go to parts per million. In the best of cases more is likely to be a waste of money. You are throwing away the money you spent on the active by trying to add more. For example, if you add more ascorbic acid to a serum than will possibly dissolve (as determined by the laws of nature and how water interacts with ascorbic…
January 6th, 2016 by Dr. Hannah Sivak
There are many DIY vitamin C options. You can take some suggestions from the ascorbic acid usage page for a simple solution, search the forum for tons of different recipes, or try out this recipe below from Dr. Sivak. DIY vitamin C serum with ascorbic acid, ferulic acid, and phloretin 15% approx. tsp: teaspoon. All measurements are approximate, unless you have a laboratory scale and can measure grams and milligrams. Use level teaspoons, NOT full teaspoons. 1 tsp (5 g) ascorbic acid 1 tsp Sea Kelp Coral 1 tsp rosehip oil 3 tsp (15 gm) distilled water 1/8 tsp ferulic acid 1/8 tsp phloretin 1/4 tsp Antioxidant Booster 1/4 tsp vodka or pure ethanol (NOT…