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Super Vitamin C Powder (Vitamin Based) Our pharmaceutical grade Vitamin C Powder is "the freshest L- Ascorbic Acid" available, 99.8% pure Vitamin C powder. Ours is the chirally correct form of Vitamin C and the most effective for the skin. Strengthens capillary and cell walls, free radical skin brightener, reverses sun damage and photo-aging, helps produce collagen, and increases the efficacy of your sunscreen considerably by better regulating melanin production and hindering hyperpigmentation.

Keep in mind that taking large amounts of vitamin C (or its derivatives) orally is of little benefit for reducing wrinkles because you cannot obtain a high enough concentration of vitamin C in the skin to increase collagen production.

What is Ascorbic acid (Vitamin C)?
Vitamin C, otherwise known as Ascorbic Acid, or more specifically L-Ascorbic Acid, is a water-soluble vitamin that is of paramount importance to life. In 1937 the Nobel Prize for Medicine was awarded to Albert Szent-Györgyi for his studies of the biological functions of ascorbic acid. In its natural form, ascorbic acid can be described as a white to yellowish crystal or powder. Commercial vitamin C is often a combination of ascorbic acid, sodium ascorbate and/or other ascorbates. Because the vitamin is water-soluble, it must be consistently replenished and replaced by consuming fresh fruits, especially those found in the citrus family that is dominated by oranges, lemons, limes, and tangerines. Vitamin C can also be derived from green leafy vegetables.

Owing to the fact that Vitamin C is an essential nutrient found mainly in fruits and vegetables, the body needs vitamin C to strengthen and maintain bones, blood vessels, and skin. It can be said that among the common nutrients and biochemicals, Vitamin C is perhaps the most popular vitamin. Ascorbic acid, together with its sodium, potassium, and calcium salts, are typically used as antioxidant food additives. Once ingested, vitamin C is readily absorbed by the intestines and continues its transport through the watery components tissues that make up the human body, helping to build collagen protein while doubling as an antioxidant along the way. Together with flavonoids, polyphenolics and water insoluble compounds such as alpha-tocopherol (vitamin E), l-ascorbic acid contributes and helps the free radical scavengers become more effective and successful in their work.

The body does not manufacture vitamin C, so it must be obtained either from food sources or through supplements. All fruits and vegetables contain some amount of vitamin C. Foods that tend to be rich sources of vitamin C include green peppers, citrus fruits and juices, strawberries, tomatoes, broccoli, turnip greens and other leafy greens, sweet and white potatoes, and cantaloupe. Vegetables such as broccoli, sweet green and red peppers, potatoes (with skin), tomatoes, and Brussels sprouts are good sources. Cabbage and many dark green leafy vegetables are all good sources of vitamin C. Other excellent sources include papaya, mango, watermelon, brussels sprouts, cauliflower, cabbage, winter squash, red peppers, raspberries, blueberries, cranberries, and pineapples. Raw and cooked leafy greens (turnip greens, spinach), red and green peppers, canned and fresh tomatoes, potatoes, winter squash, raspberries, blueberries, cranberries and pineapple are also rich sources of Vitamin C.

Is Anna Bellina Vitamin C the bio-active form L-Ascorbic Acid?
Yes. Since the year 2002 more than 12 million metric tons of L-Ascorbic Acid, the bio-active form of Vitamin C, have been produced annually worldwide and Anna Bellina has never sold anything but the bio-active form of Vitamin C, L-Ascorbic Acid. In fact, no major manufacturer since 2003 has produced the non-bio-active form of Vitamin C, D-Ascorbic Acid, or the racemic form that contains 50% bio-active and 50% non-bio-active DL-Ascorbic Acid. Prior to the year 2000 there were a few manufacturers producing the racemic form of Vitamin C, DL-Ascorbic Acid, but for the year 2009-20010 there are no major manufacturers producing racemic DL-Ascorbic Acid anywhere in the world. It is also important to consider that Anna Bellina L-Ascorbic Acid is manufactured in compliance with numerous pharmaceutical manufacturing standards including USP31 (United States Pharmacopeia), EP-6 (European Pharmacopoeia), BP-2008 (British Pharmacopoeia), and including the food grade standard FCCIV, and is certified GMO Free. It has been our observation that some unscrupulous companies are employing shady marketing tactics when selling Ascorbic Acid by using fear over DL-Ascorbic Acid as a means to capture business when this undesirable form of Vitamin C is no longer manufactured and no longer exists as a pharmaceutical grade product in any current inventory worldwide.

What is Ascorbic acid (Vitamin C) used for and who uses it?
Vitamin C has multiple functions as either a coenzyme or cofactor. Vitamin C is responsible for helping to build and maintain our tissues and strengthening our immune system. Vitamin C is essential for the oxidation of phenylalanine and tyrosine, and the conversion of folacin to tetrahydrofolic acid. Vitamin C may modulate prostaglandin synthesis to favor the production of eicosanoids with anti-thrombotic and vasodilatory activity. Vitamin C is required for synthesis of dopamine, noradrenaline and adrenaline in the nervous system or in the adrenal glands. Vitamin C is also needed to synthesize carnitine, which is of paramount importance in the transport of energy to the cell mitochondria. Ascorbic acid is required for collagen synthesis and has a structural role in bone, cartilage and teeth.

Vitamin C as an anti-oxidant - Vitamin C is one of many anti-oxidants. Anti-oxidants are nutrients that block some of the damage caused by free radicals, which are by-products that result when our bodies transform food into energy. Vitamin C neutralizes potentially harmful reactions in the watery parts of the body, such as the blood and the fluid inside and surrounding cells. Vitamin C may help decrease total and LDL cholesterol and triglycerides, as well as increase HDL levels. Vitamin C's antioxidant activity may be helpful in the prevention of some cancers and cardiovascular disease. The antioxidant properties of vitamin C are thought to protect smokers, as well as people exposed to secondhand smoke, from the harmful effects of free radicals. Vitamin C strengthens the collagen structure of arteries, lowers total cholesterol, and blood pressure, an inhibits platelet aggregation.

Vitamin C and heart disease - Vitamin C may protect against heart disease by reducing the stiffness of arteries and the tendency of platelets to clump together. Long-term administration of vitamin C reverses endothelial vasomotor dysfunction in patients with coronary artery disease. Under most circumstances, dietary vitamin C is adequate for protecting against the development of or consequences from cardiovascular disease. When taken with vitamin E, vitamin C helps protect LDL ("bad") cholesterol from oxidation, thus preventing plaque buildup in coronary arteries. Individuals with high blood levels of vitamin C have significantly reduced risk of stroke. The risk of stroke was inversely related to vitamin C in the bloodstream. Vitamin C improves nitric oxide activity. Nitric oxide is needed for the dilation of blood vessels, potentially important in lowering blood pressure and preventing spasms of arteries in the heart that might otherwise lead to heart attacks. Vitamin C has reversed dysfunction of cells lining blood vessels. The normalization of the functioning of these cells may be linked to prevention of heart disease.

Vitamin C and cancer - Vitamin C may have cancer-preventive activity, at least for certain types of cancer. As a powerful antioxidant, vitamin C may help to fight cancer by protecting healthy cells from free-radical damage and inhibiting the proliferation of cancerous cells. Vitamin C to improve the antineoplastic activity of doxorubicin, cisplatin and paclitaxel. The mechanism of the effect may be pro-oxidant, not antioxidant, activity of the vitamin in potentiating the effects of these chemotherapeutic agents. High concentratins of ascorbic acid in gastric juice may reduce the risk of gastric cancer by inhibiting the formation of carcinogenic N-nitroso compounds. Ascorbic acid is toxic to viruses and bacteria and other such harmful cells. It is also toxic to cancerous cells and a little less toxic to non-cancerous cells and so it is used therapeutically in cancer therapy. Many of the pollutants which now pervade our environment can cause carcinogenic, toxic or mutagenic effects. Vitamin C may be able to combat these harmful effects, in part by stimulating detoxifying enzymes in the liver.

Vitamin C and collagen, connective tissue - As a participant in hydroxylation, vitamin C is needed for the production of collagen in the connective tissue. These fibers are ubiquitous throughout the body; providing firm but flexible structure. Vitamin C is involved in the hydroxylation of proline to from hydroxyproline in the synthesis of collagen, a protein substance on which the integrity of cellular structure in all fibrous tissues depends. Collagen is the "glue" that strengthens many parts of the body, such as muscles and blood vessels. Collagen is a protein needed to develop and maintain healthy teeth, bones, gums, cartilage, vertebrae discs, joint linings, skin and blood vessels. Vitamin C is essential for the healing of wounds, and for the repair and maintenance of cartilage, bones, and teeth.

Vitamin C and immune system - Vitamin C may be useful as an immune stimulator and modulator in some circumstances. Vitamin C promotes resistance to infection through the immunologic activity of leukocytes, the production of interferon, and the process of inflammatory reaction, or the integrity of the mucous membranes. Vitamin C stimulates the immune system. Through this function, along with its antioxidant function, it may help in the prevention and treatment of infections and other diseases. There is some evidence that vitamin C inhibits the replication of human immunodeficiency virus 1 (HIV-1).

Other functions of vitamin C - Vitamin C has been reported to reduce activity of the enzyme, aldose reductase, in people. Aldose reductase is the enzyme responsible for accumulation of sorbitol in eyes, nerves, and kidneys of people with diabetes. Vitamin C levels in the eye decrease with age and that supplementing with vitamin C prevents this decrease, possibly leading to a lower risk of developing cataracts. Vitamin C may be helpful in protecting against some of the lipid oxidation caused by smoking. Vitamin C may be helpful in chronic diseases characterized by oxidative damage to biological molecules. People with recurrent boils (furunculosis) may have defects in white blood cell function that are correctable with vitamin C supplementation.

How pure is your Ascorbic acid (Vitamin C)? This pharmaceutical grade Ascorbic acid powder (more commonly referred to as Vitamin C) is manufactured in compliance with BP2007 and USP31 standards, and is assayed by the manufacturer as 99.90% pure product (normal range 99.0 to 100.5%). You will receive a double sealed labeled bulk polyethylene bag containing this white crystalline powder product. It contains no fillers, taste additives, or anti-caking agents. The remaining 0.10% by weight are inactive byproducts of the extraction. Vitamin C is an essential anti-oxidant nutrient required in small amounts by the body for various metabolic processes and has been found to prevent scurvy.

Ascorbic acid is a relatively fragile molecule and it may be lost from foods during preparation, cooking, and/or storage. Ascorbic acid is easily destroyed by oxidation, particularly in the presence of heat and alkalinity, and because it is highly soluble in water, it is often discarded in cooking water. Although the vitamin occurs in small amounts in animal tissues, it is usually destroyed either by exposure to air or by processing before it reaches the table. For these reasons, supplementation may be necessary.

What are some of the common effects of Ascorbic acid (Vitamin C)? Vitamin C, also called ascorbic acid, helps to maintain healthy collagen in the skin, repair damaged tissue, promote healthy teeth and bones, and boost the immune system. Vitamin C is one of the more powerful and well-known antioxidants. Oxidation causes aging of the skin as well as all other organs and tissues of the body. Vitamin C, as a free-radical fighter, helps ward off wrinkles and many illnesses linked to oxidation, including cataracts, arthritis, heart disease, and cancer. Vitamin C functions as an anti-inflammatory, and helps the body fight inflammatory diseases, including arthritis, fibromyalgia, and chronic fatigue. A multitude of other conditions may be improved vitamin C, including angina, bronchitis, bruises, canker sores, constipation, diabetes, eyestrain, gingivitis, glaucoma, hangover, infertility, joint pain, rashes, rosacea, shingles, sore throat, sprains, sunburn, and yeast infections, urinary tract infections, and scurvy (a disease caused by vitamin C deficiency characterized by tiredness, muscle weakness, joint and muscle aches, a rash on the legs, and bleeding gums). Because vitamin C helps the body absorb iron, it is also useful in treating iron deficiency and anemia.

100% pure L-ascorbic acid is the only form of vitamin C readily absorbed by the skin, in crystal form. Vitamin C can be mixed with any skin care product or serum to help firm and brighten the skin and prevent premature signs of aging caused by environmental damage. It is well known that Vitamin C serums are very unstable, as soon as you put Vitamin C in water, it will start oxidizing. The most common form of topical Vitamin C is L-Ascorbic acid. Our L-Ascorbic acid comes as a fine powder. It is used as an anti-oxidant, for collagen production, in lightening and brightening discolorations, to reduce fine lines and wrinkles, and to repair and protect against sun damage. It is best used fresh every day. Ideal for aging sun damaged skin and age spots. Featuring a 99.8% potency, this treatment protects skin from one of the leading causes of premature aging - free radical damage, acquired during the day. Vitamin C also gently lightens hyperpigmentation for a more even skin tone and radiant complexion.

Vitamin C, or L-Ascorbic Acid, is an important component of most anti-aging skin care regimens. Topically applied, pure Vitamin C Powder is proven to help protect the skin from photo-damage from sun exposure. Vitamin C taken orally does not have the same skin care benefit - it must be applied directly to the skin. However, Vitamin C Serums have a tendency to become unstable quite quickly. There is not this problem with the C powder.

Premature aging is prevented by using an anti-oxidant promoting collagen synthesis, this improve the skin's overall tone and texture. By neutralizing the effects of environmental attack, science has proven that the daily application of topical Vitamin C will help retard the aging process. Mix with any of your favorite products in the palm of your hand to instantly convert them into a state-of-the-art Vitamin C formula.


Benefits:
The benefits of a topical anti-oxidant - one of the gold standards of dermatology - is as simple as adding a little sprinkle of this easy to use Vitamin C powder to your moisturizer. Featuring 99.8% potency, this treatment powder protects skin from one of the leading causes of premature aging - free radical damage - during the day. Vitamin C also gently lightens hyperpigmentation, for a more even and radiant complexion.

* Minimizes skin discoloration and improves clarity
* Visibly improves skin's health and radiance
* Provides anti-aging antioxidant protection
* Improves skin tone and texture
* The highest potency, best vitamin c product on the market
* A convertible vitamin c that can be mixed in with your favorite products
* Protect against free radical damage, the cause of 99% of all aging
* Brighter skin tone


Key Ingredients
L-ascorbic Acid is a pure and stable form of Vitamin C that increases collagen production, brightens the skin, and fights free radicals


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Directions
Add a sprinkling of powder to product in palm of hand and mix with finger. Apply to toner damp skin of face, neck, decollete, and back of hands twice a day after cleansing/toning and before moisturizer.


from Kat
Hey... the powder is wonderful... My skin looks fresh, healthy and has a luminous glow... How did you ever come up with this... I don't know why I even asked you this... I am the one doing esthetics. I am almost done... It has been 2 interesting years!!!... I have seen and tried sooo many products... some make claims that are false, and try to guise themselves under the pretense of "natural, botanical etc.." and are full of toxic ingredients... I refused to use them in class... I hope to include the vit c in my program when I am finished...along with your other anti aging products. Thanks soo much!

from Serafina
Hi! I did receive my products. Thank you. By the way, I bought your vitamin c powder quite awhile ago. Every time I use it, I get a compliment on my skin. So something about it works :-) Thank you!

Beauty Flash: Vitamin C is essential in the creation of collagen, a protein your body uses to create skin, scar tissue, ligaments, tendons, and blood vessels. Unfortunately, the skin's ability to replace damaged collagen diminishes with age, and by eating a diet containing sugar and high glycemic carbs. Sun damage, free radicals, some age-related hormonal changes, stress and smoking also contribute to the damage.

Vitamin C has been used for a long time as a skin rejuvenator. Potentially, vitamin C can benefit skin in two important ways. Firstly, vitamin C is essential for the synthesis of collagen, a key structural protein of the skin. Adding vitamin C to a culture of skin cells (fibroblasts) dramatically increases the synthesis of collagen. This seriously boosts the integrity of the Dermal-Epidermal Junction. Secondly, vitamin C is an antioxidant and can help reduce skin damage caused by free radicals. So, when vitamin C is properly delivered into skin cells, there is a good chance to reduce wrinkles and improve skin texture.

As the collagen begins to degrade, lines and wrinkles form. Vitamin C can help counteract this problem, enabling the skin to grow new collagen-producing cells. This is of major importance in maintaining a youthful face and body because more than a third of the body's protein is collagen. Collagen also makes up 75 percent of our skin.

* Provides a readily available form of Vitamin C to the skin
* Can be used by those with sensitive skin
* Helps to protect skin from the damage caused by free radicals and inflammation
* Continued use will diminish the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles
* Dramatic improvement in appearance of skin tone, and texture

Many people find that their face takes on a porcelain glow, the hallmark sign of the power of Vitamin C to dramatically improve the appearance of skin tone and texture. Treatment products we already have now work even better.

Pure Vitamin C Powder to the rescue. Both men and women see significant improvement from regular applications of vitamin C. As we age, the skin also thins, allowing delicate blood vessels to show. Vitamin C can help give the skin a thicker appearance making these vessels and veins less apparent.


There are some complicating circumstances often disregarded by manufacturers. First, vitamin C is relatively unstable (unless it is in a dry form). In the presence of air or other oxidizing agents, vitamin C is easily converted to oxidized forms. The oxidized vitamin C is not only incapable of boosting collagen synthesis or scavenging free radicals but may actually promote free radical formation causing damage to vital molecules such as proteins and DNA. In poorly prepared or poorly stored skin care products, vitamin C may already be oxidized by the time you apply it to your skin. Second, only highly concentrated preparations (10% or more) deliver enough vitamin C to the cells to be topically effective.

What is Vitamin C?
Vitamin C is used in skin care because it is an antioxidant. Antioxidants protect the skin from damage cause by the effects of sun exposure and environmental causes of aging, like smoking or pollution.

The forms of Vitamin C that are used in skin care are: ascorbic acid, L-ascorbic acid, tetrahexyldecyl ascorbate, ascorbyl palmitate, ascorbyl phosphate, ascorbyl glucoside, retinyl ascorbate, ascorbyl stearate, sodium ascorbyl phosphate, and magnesium ascorbyl phosphate. Ascorbic Acid is the entire Vitamin C molecule, the others are derivatives. No one form has been shown be more effective or better than the other. Vitamin C Skin Care products should be a strength of 0.3 to 10% for optimal effectiveness.

Don't Forget the SPF!
While vitamin C can protect the skin from UV damage caused by prolonged sun exposure, it does not block UV like sunscreen and should always be used along with a good sunscreen.

Does Everyone Need Vitamin C?
Vitamin C is especially beneficial for hyperpigmentation or uneven skin tone - dark spots, sun damage, etc. If you do not have these "issues", you can choose any good anti-oxidant for your anti-aging skin care regimen. If you do have darkened skin areas or issues, I would recommend at least giving Vitamin C a try.

L-Ascorbic Acid, Pure Vitamin C Powder, helps skin look younger by increasing collagen production, preventing free radical damage, lessening hyperpigmentation, strengthening capillary walls, decreasing the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, and accelerating wound healing.

Our Vitamin Powder anti-aging treatment is full of 99.8% pure Vitamin C powder. Without Vitamin C, humans cannot thrive or survive. While most animals can produce their own vitamin C, people and other primates have lost this ability. This means it's essential to eat foods rich in vitamin C and take vitamin C supplements as insurance. Vitamin C is a highly effective means of enhancing the skin's glow while helping to prevent internal enzyme reactions which undermine the skin's structure.

Vitamin C
Vitamin C is an essential nutrient for good health and wellness. Without vitamin C, people cannot thrive or even survive. While most animals can produce their own vitamin C, humans and other primates (apes, monkeys, lemurs, etc.) have lost this ability. This means that it is essential that we eat foods rich in vitamin C, and take vitamin C supplements as insurance.

Vitamin C performs many different vital functions in the body. Vitamin C also helps protect the fat-soluble vitamins A and E and the fatty acids in cell membranes from oxidation by free radicals. Last but not least, vitamin C also reduces harmful, sub-clinical inflammation throughout the body.

Certain areas of the brain, especially the nucleus accumbens (vital to movement control) and hippocampus (vital to memory), contain very high concentrations of vitamin C, which decline as we age.

When accompanied by decreases in glutathione, (a powerful tri-peptide anti-oxidant enzyme vital for cellular production of energy and proper immune function), the body is overcome with oxidizing free radicals, causing oxidation-damaged fats (lipids) accumulate in our cells and tissues.

Water-soluble vitamin C (ascorbic acid)
This is the form of vitamin C found in standard vitamin supplements. Although I recommend taking both forms of this precious nutrient, ascorbic acid has some drawbacks. It cannot protect cell membranes, nor can the skin maintain adequate levels when we experience oxidative stress, either from internal sources such as poor diet and stress, or from external sources such as sunlight.

Ascorbic acid can also create a powerful free radical known as a hydroxyl radical, via a Fenton reaction with iron in the body. It is also irritating to skin and unstable when used in topical serum formulations.


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