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Ascorbyl Palmitate
Ascorbyl PalmitateAntioxidant
An oil-soluble vitamin C used mostly to keep other oils from going rancid — modest skin effect at typical amounts.
What it does
It’s an oil-soluble form of vitamin C that stays stable in oils, but your skin turns less of it into the active form than ascorbyl tetraisopalmitate. It’s used more to keep other oils from going rancid than to brighten, and its effect on skin is modest at usual amounts.
The EU’s ingredient database lists it as an antioxidant (slows reactions with oxygen, like going rancid).European Commission, CosIng (© European Union, CC BY 4.0) · uses put in plain words by Drop ↗
The evidence, graded
strongTwo vitamin C trials measured at 12 weeks, and at 3 and 6 months. In a half-face study of ten people, a 10% ascorbic acid and 7% tetrahexyldecyl ascorbate gel reduced wrinkling over 12 weeks, with biopsy evidence of new collagen. In a 6-month study, a 5% cream on the low neck and arms raised the global score and microrelief density. Both graded pigment and neither beat its own vehicle on it. A review of seven trials did report lightening.Humbert 2003 · Experimental Dermatology ↗ Graded per the methodology: strong · moderate · emerging · expert consensus. A weak source on a strong claim gets the weaker label.
Also known as
vitamin c, ascorbic acid
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