Written by Jack Nicastro
Dr. Devgan offers her expert advice to explain to Who What Wear why you ought to incorporate hyaluronic acid and vitamin c into your skincare routine as well as why you should be staying away from creams claiming to vanish stretch marks, facial oils and large fragment facial scrubs.
With all the hype surrounding it, Dr. Devgan’s confirms that hyaluronic acid does indeed produce glossy, glass-like skin: “it’s a major component of the body’s collagen, and it's a complex sugar molecule that can absorb 1000 times its weight in water.” Dr. Devgan’s mixed molecular weight Hyaluronic Serum possesses smaller fragments of hyaluronic acid which, as she states in the article, “more effectively penetrate into the dermis to hydrate from within while the larger fragments reside on top of the skin to create a beautiful finish."
The subject of a similar degree of hubbub, Dr. Devgan explains how antioxidant-rich vitamin c serums fade brown spots, reduces discoloration and fine lines by “scaveng[ing] free radical[s] and environmental damage that has compromised the skin.” Dr. Devgan’s own Vitamin C + B + E Ferulic Serum is available for those who want to achieve the kind of luminous skin one sees in beauty magazines.
Now that we’ve discussed what you should be using, it’s high-time we explain what you should not: there is no such thing as a stretch-mark clearing cream, so those that market themselves as such are frankly fraudulent; the molecules in facial oils are too large to penetrate the dermis to hydrate it from within and may result in clogged pores; large fragment facial scrubs regularly result in micro-tearing of healthy skin and chemical peels can result in irritation and dryness if executed poorly by an amateur.
