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C E Ferulic

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Brighter, firmer looking skin with antioxidant protection every morning.

Fine lines, uneven tone and softening firmness are showing up faster than you would like, and you know daily sun and pollution play a part.

C E Ferulic helps defend your skin against the free radicals that sun and pollution generate, while visibly firming, smoothing and brightening. It pairs 15% pure vitamin C with 1% vitamin E and 0.5% ferulic acid, a combination developed at Duke University. Ferulic acid keeps vitamins C and E stable and doubles their antioxidant strength in lab testing. It works alongside your sunscreen, never in place of it.

Who It Is For

Skin showing sun damage, such as fine lines, uneven tone and loss of firmness, especially dry, normal or sensitive skin.

Not Acne Safe

What You Will See, and When

In SkinCeuticals' twelve week study, the look of wrinkles dropped 32% and discoloration 33%, while firmness improved 31%. Results build with daily morning use.

How to Use

Use it every morning. Once your first serum has absorbed, press a third of a dropper into dry skin on face, neck and chest, before moisturizer. Sunscreen goes on last.

The Science

Sun and pollution create free radicals in skin, unstable molecules that show up over time as lines and uneven tone. Vitamins C and E neutralize them, and each helps regenerate the other.

Vitamin C is notoriously unstable. Adding 0.5% ferulic acid, a plant antioxidant, keeps the vitamins stable and doubles their antioxidant strength in lab testing.

Antioxidant support works alongside sunscreen, not in place of it. Antioxidants neutralize the free radicals that get through, which is why the two belong together every morning.

Questions

Does it replace sunscreen?No. It works alongside sunscreen, so wear both every morning.
Why is it slightly gold?A light gold or amber tint is normal for this formula.
What does it feel like?A light, watery serum that absorbs quickly. Fragrance free.

Why a Routine Made for You Works Better

General advice is written for everyone, so it has to assume nothing about you. It can tell you what is safe. It cannot tell you what will work for your skin.

Skin changes when it is challenged just enough, then given time to recover and adapt. That amount is different for every person, and it moves as your skin gets stronger. Ask too much and your skin spends its energy recovering instead of improving. Ask too little and nothing changes. Finding that point for you, and moving it at the right time, is where results come from.

Where that point sits depends on:

  • Your skin: its history, how it reacts, and what it is doing today
  • Your health: hormones, medications, pregnancy and any condition that changes how skin behaves
  • Your lifestyle: sleep, stress, diet, sun, exercise and climate
  • Your routine: what you use now, and what has and has not worked before
  • Your goals: what you most want to change
  • Your expectations and timeline: how soon you want to see change, and what is realistic for your skin
  • Your consistency: how much time and how many steps you will keep up with, because the best routine is the one you actually do
  • Your treatments: what you have had and what you have planned

A skin therapist weighs all of this, builds a routine you can keep, and adjusts it as your skin responds. That is why we guarantee our products when they are part of a routine designed by one of our skin therapists. If you have been reading general advice, bring your questions. We will help you sort out what applies to you and what does not.

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Key Ingredients

Vitamin C (15%)Brightens and helps defend against free radicals
Vitamin E (1%)Boosts vitamin C's antioxidant defense
Ferulic acid (0.5%)Stabilizes the vitamins and doubles their antioxidant strength
Full Ingredient List

Aqua / Water / Eau, Ethoxydiglycol, Ascorbic Acid, Glycerin, Propylene Glycol, Laureth-23, Tocopherol, Phenoxyethanol, Sodium Hydroxide, Ferulic Acid, Carnosine, Panthenol, Sodium Hyaluronate, Pentylene Glycol, Taraxacum Officinale Rhizome/Root Extract - Dandelion Rhizome/Root Extract, Maltodextrin, Citric Acid, Eperua Falcata Bark Extract

References

1. SkinCeuticals brand clinical data (skinceuticals.com): 12 week study; wrinkles -32%, discoloration -33%, firmness +31%.
2. SkinCeuticals lab data on vitamin C, vitamin E and ferulic acid stability (skinceuticals.com)

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    Sun damage, fine lines or uneven tone, and skin that doesn't clog or break out? Try this routine.