National Vitamin C Day on April 4th each year shares all the ways vitamin C nurtures and benefits our health, inside and out! To celebrate, I thought this was the perfect time to share a few of our favorite Vitamin C products.
Lumiere de Vie Brightening C-Serum delivers a healthy dose of Vitamin C to the skin to help brighten and give a youthful-looking complexion. This formula’s strong antioxidant properties help to fight the signs of aging and oxidative stress, while helping to reduce the appearance of fine lines, wrinkles and dark spots. Other skin-loving ingredients help to maintain skins elasticity while moisturizing and smoothing skin for a soft-to-the touch feel.*
THE BENEFITS
INGREDIENTS
Ascorbic Acid (vitamin C)
Ascorbic acid is one of the most abundant antioxidants found in human skin, where it plays an important role in protecting the skin from oxidative free radicals and supporting healthy skin proteins like collagen and elastin. Topical application of vitamin C (ascorbic acid) can help reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles; help the skin feel firmer and more supple and provide a smoother, more even and brighter-looking complexion.
Glyceryl Glucoside
Glyceryl glucoside is a small sugar derivative found in certain plants and blue-green algae. It has strong water-binding properties that help keep the skin moisturized, supple and smooth.
Ectoin
Ectoin is an organic molecule that occurs widely in nature and has strong water-binding properties as well as antioxidant properties. These properties help ectoin to moisturize and soothe the skin and reduce the appearance of wrinkles.
FAQS
How do I use Lumière de Vie® Brightening C-Serum?
For best results apply 3-5 drops to freshly cleansed and dried face, décolletage and back of hands; use morning or night. Allow to dry fully before adding additional products (remember to apply skincare products thinnest to thickest).
How often should I use Lumière de Vie Brightening C-Serum?
It is recommended to add this serum into your regimen slowly, starting with once a day or every other day depending on your skin sensitivity. Eventually build up to twice a day. Remember that everyone’s skin is different, and frequency and amount of use should be adjusted based on your specific skin needs.
How long will it take to see results from Lumière de Vie Brightening C-Serum?
On average, if used consistently, users will begin seeing results within a few weeks.
Why is the Lumière de Vie Brightening C-Serum in an opaque bottle?
Vitamin C is highly susceptible to oxidation which is accelerated by exposure to light. Our vitamin C is packaged in an opaque bottle to reduce light exposure on the serum itself.
How much ascorbic acid is in this product?
This serum offers 10% ascorbic acid for ultimate brightening, anti-aging, and antioxidant benefits.
VitaShield Vitamin C & E Liposome Intensive Moisturizer drenches the skin with ingredients that help keep it looking smooth and firm. Using a cutting-edge liposome delivery system, VitaShield Vitamin C & E Liposome Intensive Moisturizer penetrates the skin and distributes powerful antioxidants to the lower layers. These antioxidants, vitamins C and E, help minimize the appearance of the effects of stress and environmental damage for a silky, smooth feel.
VitaShield Vitamin C & E Liposome Intensive Moisturizer contains several other key ingredients that work together to provide you with superior skin health. Sodium Hyaluronate is a natural component of skin that attracts and retains hundreds of times its own weight in water, providing your skin with long term moisturization. Combined with isopropyl palmitate, it helps hydrate and soften the skin. Working in unison, these potent ingredients help smooth, hydrate, and firm the skin for a more youthful appearance.
THE BENEFITS
INGREDIENTS
Sodium Hyaluronate
A vital moisturizer and lubricant found naturally in our skin. Provides superior, long term moisturization, helping to keep the skin hydrated and supple.
Ascorbyl Palmitate (Vitamin C)
Ascorbyl palmitate is a stable form of vitamin C. Like Vitamin C, ascorbyl palmitate has antioxidant properties and thus might help protect the skin from oxidative stress and help keep it looking younger.
Tocopheryl Acetate (Vitamin E)
Vitamin E is a well-known antioxidant vitamin. Tocopheryl acetate’s antioxidant properties might help protect the skin from oxidative stress and help keep it looking healthy and more youthful.
Isopropyl Palmitate
Widely used in skin care products as an emollient skin conditioning agent to lubricate the skin and keep the skin looking and feeling soft and smooth.
FAQS
What benefits will I receive from the other ingredients?
VitaShield Vitamin C & E Intensive Moisturizer
is fortified with green tea, gingko biloba, ginseng, horsetail and heather extracts. These ingredients support skin tone, help maintain skin's resistance to fatigue and stress, promote healthy collagen synthesis and skin firmness, protect the skin, and provide free radical protection.
Why does my complexion look dull and how can I achieve a healthy glow?
As we age, free radicals negatively impact the skin and regeneration slows, resulting in fewer new cells on the skin's surface. VitaShield Vitamin C & E Intensive Moisturizer helps protect from free radicals to promote normal skin cell regeneration to brighten your complexion for a healthy-looking glow.
What causes loss of elasticity, wrinkles, lines and furrows?
Collagen is a group of naturally-occurring proteins that bind our skin cells together. When collagen production is slowed, our skin becomes less toned and firm. Vitamin C helps keep skin firm, lessening the appearance of wrinkles and fine lines, while Vitamin E helps to moisturize skin for a smoother appearance.
Why is my skin so dry?
There are several factors that affect our skin health, most importantly our blood circulation. As we age, our blood vessels constrict, reducing blood flow to our skin. This causes the body to produce less oil and skin to become dryer. VitaShield Vitamin C & E Intensive Moisturizer helps moisturize the skin, while helping to keep skin smooth and healthy-looking.
Why does my skin feel so thin?
There are several factors that play a role in thinning the skin. Our fat is redistributed to the subcutaneous layer, leaving less under the epidermis. Also, when collagen production slows and cells are not regenerated, the skin begins to lose its structure and tone, creating skin sagging. VitaShield Vitamin C & E Intensive Moisturizer relies on its high concentration of vitamin C to support the normal synthesis of collagen and protect elastin. This supports the texture and firmness for healthier-looking skin.
What can I do to help slow the signs of aging?
All biological systems depend on antioxidants, such as vitamin C, A and E, beta-carotene and selenium for protection against free radicals, which has been shown to be one of the major causes of visible signs of aging. Vitamin C is a particularly important nutrient for the skin, as it helps promote and maintain collagen. With the best ingredients possible, all VitaShield products are meticulously formulated to keep the integrity of those ingredients - so you reap all of the benefits.
The two most important factors when searching for the best quality nutritional supplements are absorption and potency. Isotonix supplements, when mixed with water, have the same pH and osmotic pressure as the bodys fluids, such as tears, plasma and blood. In order for meaningful absorption of nutritional content to take place, all food must be converted into an isotonic state. This process could take up to three hours. This time consuming process limits the amount of nutrients absorbed by the body. However, Isotonix Vitamin C sets itself apart from other products on the market providing you with the maximum absorption of the nutrients within the product in the shortest amount of time. All in all, Isotonix Vitamin C provides superior delivery of the nutrients your body needs in the most cost effective way. According to researchers at the University of Leeds, Guys Hospital in London, Baylor University and the Mayo Clinic, among others, have shown that not only do isotonic solutions leave the stomach faster, but also that the osmotic pressure of the stomach contents is one of the controlling mechanisms for the rate at which the stomach empties leading to more efficient assimilation by all of the bodys systems. The liquid composition of Isotonix Vitamin C Formula places the vitamins and minerals in an optimal position for absorption and superior delivery to the bodys systems. Isotonix Vitamin C is an exemplary product that leaves you with peace of mind, knowing that you are doing the most and the best for your health.*
THE BENEFITS
INGREDIENTS
Vitamin C (Ascorbic Acid) 500 mg
Around 90 percent of vitamin C in the typical diet comes from fresh fruits and vegetables. Peppers- sweet green and red peppers and hot red and green chili peppers- are especially rich in vitamin C. Other good sources include citrus fruits and juices, brussels sprouts, cauliflower, cabbage, kale, collards, mustard greens, broccoli, spinach and strawberries. It is important to note that cooking destroys vitamin C activity.
Vitamin C, justifiably so, has become the worlds most popular vitamin. The reasoning behind this vitamins grand reputation is at once multi-faceted as well as amazing. The bodily functions promoted by this vitamin create an extensive list.*
Ascorbic acid is best known for its antioxidant properties. Ascorbic acid may be the most important water-soluble antioxidant in the body.*
The capacity of vitamin C to support the immune system seems to be common knowledge. In support of an elevated vitamin C intake, an expert scientific panel recently recommended increasing the current RDA for vitamin C from 60 mg to at least 100-200 mg per day. Next, vitamin C may promote normal pulmonary health. Part of the protective action of vitamin C appears to be due to its antioxidant properties. Finally, some studies suggest that vitamin C supplementation will help to maintain healthy vision.*
Vitamin C helps support cardiovascular health in a few different ways. It assists in promoting normal levels of cholesterol and normal blood pressure and promotes normal platelet activity. It also promotes healthy triglyceride levels. Vitamin C protects against LDL peroxidation by scavenging free radicals. Vitamin C helps maintain endothelial cell function by promoting the synthesis of nitric oxide (also known as NO and EDRF for endothelium-derived relaxing factor).*
As mentioned above, vitamin C helps preserve intracellular reduced glutathione concentrations. This activity likely helps maintain nitric oxide levels and potentiates its vasoactive effects, helping to maintain the integrity of blood vessels.*
Vitamin C may promote normal modulation of prostaglandin synthesis, which in turn promotes normal vasodilatory activity. As observed above, vitamin C helps maintain nitric oxide levels and supports its ability to preserve the integrity of the blood vessels. There is an indication that vitamin C supports endothelial-dependent vasodilation.*
Vitamin C plays a crucial role in maintaining healthy connective tissues including collagen, elastin, fibronectin, proteoglycans, bone matrix and elastin-associated fibrillin. Also, a lack of vitamin C can cause general fatigue. Next, vitamin C helps moderate healthy iron absorption, transport and storage. It promotes the normal intestinal absorption of iron.*
Beta Carotene (Vitamin A Precursor) 240 mcg
Vitamin A is a fat-soluble vitamin that is part of a family of compounds including retinol, retinal and beta-carotene. Beta-carotene is also known as pro-vitamin A because it can be converted into vitamin A. The best sources of vitamin A includes organ meats (such as liver and kidney) egg yolks, butter, carrot juice, squash, sweet potatoes, spinach, peaches, fortified dairy products (such as milk and some margarines) and cod liver oil.
Vitamin A has exhibited anti-aging and antioxidant activities. Vitamin A helps to maintain vision. It promotes normal bone growth and also contributes to a healthy immune system. Vitamin A supports normal epithelial differentiation, growth, reproduction, pattern formation during embryogenesis, bone development, hematopoiesis and brain development. Children are particularly susceptible to the effects of vitamin A deficiency.*
Potassium (Bicarbonate) 101 mg
Foods rich in potassium include fresh vegetables and fruits, such as bananas, oranges, cantaloupe, avocado, raw spinach, cabbage and celery. Potassium is an essential macromineral that helps to keep fluid balance. It also plays a role in a wide variety of biochemical and physiological processes. Among other things, it promotes the normal transmission of nerve impulses, the normal contraction of cardiac, skeletal and smooth muscle, the normal production of energy, the normal synthesis of nucleic acids, the maintenance of intracellular tonicity and the maintenance of normal blood pressure. Potassium promotes muscle relaxation, and supports normal insulin release. It also promotes normal glycogen and protein synthesis. Potassium is an electrolyte that promotes proper heartbeat, and it is important in supporting the normal release of energy from protein, fat and carbohydrates during metabolism.*
FAQS
Does Isotonix Vitamin C provides the recommended daily allowance?
Yes,
Isotonix Vitamin C
contains 500 mg of vitamin C per serving, which is an optimal amount for immune system maintenance. In times of illness or distress, it may be helpful to supplement with a higher serving size of vitamin C.*
Will Isotonix Vitamin C enhance my immune system?
Yes, in several ways actually. Vitamin C has been heralded for quite possibly being the best immune system supporter and antioxidant available today. People who take daily doses of vitamin C can support their immune system. Vitamin C supports the immune system by protecting the body from free radical damage. As a water-soluble vitamin, ascorbic acid performs its antioxidant functions within the aqueous compartments of the blood and inside cells and can help restore the antioxidant potential of vitamin E (a fat-soluble antioxidant). Support of immune cell function is also a key role performed by vitamin C.*
Is Isotonix Vitamin C safe for children and their delicate systems?
Children should take DNA Miracles Isotonix Multivitamin which has a lower serving of vitamin C in the formulation. Vitamin C supplementation is especially beneficial for children.*
Who needs to supplement with Isotonix Vitamin C Formula?
Basically, everyone over 18 should use Isotonix Vitamin C Formula to add vitamin C to their diet because very few of us get the recommended five servings of fruits and vegetables in our daily diets. Those who may especially need supplemental vitamin C include the elderly, those with weakened immune systems, smokers, those under heavy amounts of stress, those with cardiovascular conditions and athletes.*
Is it possible to take too much Isotonix Vitamin C Formula?
Ascorbic acid is extremely safe even at relatively high levels (because most of the excess is excreted in the urine). At high doses (over 1000 mg/day), some people can experience gastrointestinal side effects such as stomach cramps, nausea and diarrhea. It is recommended that you take vitamin C supplements in gradual servings throughout the day to achieve maximum benefits.*
How does Isotonix Vitamin C Formula aid in cardiovascular health?
It helps maintain healthy cholesterol and triglyceride levels. It promotes healthy arterial walls and supports normal blood pressure. It helps the body maintain vitamin E, which has known benefits for the cardiovascular system. Finally, vitamin C supports normal platelet activity.*
What is the best way to store this product?
Keep Isotonix stored in a dry, cool place. If Isotonix are stored in the kitchen, keep them away from the stove, sink, heat-generating appliances or window ledges. If you live in a very humid area, you may store Isotonix products in the refrigerator – but not in the fruit and vegetables area.
*These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product(s) is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.
