No. 27 of 29
Vitamin Cascorbyl glucoside
The stable kind: 2% that doesn’t sting or smell of pennies.
- On the label as
- Ascorbyl Glucoside
- What it is
- A stable form of vitamin C: ascorbic acid joined to a glucose molecule, which the skin gradually releases as vitamin C.
- Why it’s there
- An antioxidant. With 1% ferulic acid, it helps defend skin against everyday environmental stress and brings back the glow tired skin loses.
- Where it comes from
- Made from vitamin C and glucose, usually from corn starch, by a gentle enzyme process.
- How much
- 2% of the Vitamin C Serum
- Found in
- Vitamin C Serum
In more words
- How much
- 2%, with 1% ferulic acid
- When
- Mornings, after washing, under SPF
- Smells of
- Mandarin, not pennies
- Kept in
- An airless pump, so light and air stay out
Pure vitamin C, ascorbic acid, is famous and famously fussy. It breaks down in light and air, it can sting at the strengths that make headlines, and as it oxidises it turns the serum orange and smells faintly of old coins.
Ascorbyl glucoside is vitamin C with a glucose molecule attached, which keeps it stable in the bottle. Once it is on the skin, the glucose is gradually split off. You get a gentler, steadier antioxidant, and a serum that stays the colour it started.
Why 2%? Because the point is a serum you’ll use every morning, not one you’ll abandon after a week of tingling. 2% with ferulic acid, in an airless pump, used daily under SPF, beats 20% in a drawer.
From the journal: Vitamin C without the stingFound in
One of ours: the Vitamin C Serum
Pick it up where it works best. Every order brings a sample, and sixty days to change your mind, even opened.
