Dr. Shereene Idris
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It's going to help with your overall tone of your skin.
Meaning it'll make it firmer.
Skin color.
It's a great, great question.
And it's funny because I used to even be confused by what tone meant.
It means your skin color.
It might not necessarily be the best thing for you.
Okay.
We'll talk about the types of vitamin C, but vitamin C helps with brown spots.
It does?
Helps with discoloration.
Yes.
Okay.
It also helps with collagen production.
You need vitamin C to produce collagen, but it also has antioxidant protection.
So it's going to help to protect your skin from like the environmental stressors.
that can cause free radicals that cause your collagen to break down early.
So it is a very powerful ingredient that has a huge track record, and it's a great one to have in your routine.
But vitamin C is a category.
there's the active form of vitamin C known as ascorbic acid.