Can vitamin C tablets whiten your skin?

For most people, vitamin C is not unfamiliar, because whether children or the elderly, whether men or women, they all need to take in enough vitamin C to prevent various diseases. In addition, vitamin C also has the effect of whitening the skin. Proper supplementation of vitamin C can help improve the phenomenon of dull skin. The following is a detailed introduction to the whitening effect of vitamin C.

1. Can taking VC every day help whiten your skin?

Taking vitamin C every day has a certain whitening effect.

Vitamin C can whiten your skin because its derivatives can reduce melanin and prevent it from depositing and forming dark spots on dark skin. However, the whitening effect of vitamin C may be slow. Because vitamins are easily destroyed and are not very stable. Despite this, taking vitamin E every day is also a whitening trick that many girls insist on using.

2. How can you take vitamin C every day to whiten your skin?

1. Eat VC every day to whiten your skin

Whitening is a long-term battle, and you have to persist in taking vitamin C every day. According to the complex formation principle of melanin, it takes at least 28 days to use VC to restore melanin before a certain whitening effect can be seen. Because the skin's metabolism cycle is 28 days, you need to take vitamin C every day for a long time to achieve whitening.

2. It is recommended to take VC twice a day

Taking vitamin C orally can whiten your skin, but it is best to take VC at different times of the day. Because vitamin C is a water-soluble vitamin, generally speaking, it will be lost through breathing, sweating, and excretion in about 4 hours. Repeated supplementation at intervals of 3.5 or four hours can ensure the vitamin C content in the body and achieve better whitening effects.

3. Take VC half an hour before or after meals

Taking vitamin C orally before and after meals can maximize the body's absorption of vitamin C. Therefore, it is recommended to take vitamin C before or after meals according to the oral instructions of vitamin C tablets.

4. Take 500 mg of vitamin C every day

We can also get vitamin C from fruits and vegetables in our daily life. However, due to overcooking, vitamin C is destroyed. Many people are chronically deficient in VC. From a maintenance perspective, it is recommended to take about 500 mg per day, which is both safe and effective.

5. Pay attention to the concentration when taking VC every day

Vitamin C is also known as ascorbic acid. In order for vitamin C to achieve its best effect, several conditions must be met. One is that the pH value must be low enough, and the other is that the concentration must be high enough. Therefore, when taking vitamin C orally, you should pay attention to the concentration. The vitamin C you take every day should not be too concentrated or too low in concentration. 500 mg of oral vitamin C is the reference daily VC intake value. Don’t forget that you also consume vitamin C from fruits.

3. Vitamin C cannot be taken with three types of food

1. Pig, sheep and cattle liver

Pork liver, sheep liver, and beef liver contain copper ions. If consumed at the same time as vitamin C, the copper in the animal liver can cause vitamin C to lose its original ability to reduce melanin, reduce the activity of vitamin V, and make VC lose its whitening effect.

2. Dairy products

Vitamin C has a certain acidity and strong reducing properties and is easily oxidized. Dairy products are rich in vitamin B2, which has certain oxidizing properties. When taken at the same time, vitamin C is easily oxidized by vitamin B2, and vitamin B2 is reduced, and both lose their effectiveness at the same time. First, VC loses its whitening effect, and second, the purpose of vitamin supplementation cannot be achieved.

3. Shellfish

Shellfish contain more pentavalent arsenic. If you eat these high-arsenic aquatic products while taking large amounts of vitamin C, the interaction between the two can convert the pentavalent arsenic into trivalent arsenic. This substance can easily be converted into what we commonly call arsenic. Therefore, if you take vitamin C every day, you should avoid eating shellfish.