Vitamin C: the benefits for your skin

Vitamin C protects and repairs your skin. It is a powerful antioxidant that neutralises free radicals. Free radicals cause premature skin ageing. Vitamin C also protects against skin infections and irritations.

What’s more, vitamin C helps maintain your collagen and elastin production and it promotes the natural healing process, resulting in the reduced appearance of age spots and faster healing of minor wounds.

Vitamin C naturally occurs in the epidermis or the outer skin layer and in the dermis, the thick, middle layer of skin. But with ageing, vitamin C levels decrease and less vitamin C is absorbed from food, drink and dietary supplements. This causes your skin to lose its elasticity and your complexion becomes dull and grey. By applying a cream with vitamin C, vitamin C is delivered more quickly to the right place in your skin!

Here at Thermae, we are big fans of vitamin C and use it in several products, like our hydrating gel masks with fruit extracts, our body wraps with fruit and the fruit acid clay mask we use in our mesotherapy treatment.

Mesotherapy is one of the skin-rejuvenating facial treatments we offer in our Beauty Clinic. You can read all about it here. 

We also sell a number of vitamin C containing products for use at home: our hand cream, our anti-acne gel and our deep-cleansing foam gel. You can buy all these products at our wellness centre receptions.