I bought a ton of sunscreen in Japan. I wasn’t planning on it, but when I saw the skincare there, I figured I may as well stock up. One of the intriguing trends was sunscreen with skincare benefits like this Hare Bare SPF 50 sunscreen with vitamin C. I don’t know how much vitamin C is actually in here, but part of me knows that I’m using this for the SPF 50 anyway, and I’ll be layering a serum underneath my sunscreen. Still, Vitamin C is a powerful antioxidant that can actually help your sunscreen work better by preventing it from oxidizing in the sun. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Now, there’s Garnier’s SkinActive Vitamin C UV Brightening Daily Cream. It’s sold as a daily face cream with broad-spectrum SPF 30, so use it like you would a regular sunscreen. There’s such a tiny amount of vitamin C in the sunscreen that you will need to layer it with a different Vitamin C product to get the benefits of vitamin C. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
The Garnier Vitamin C Serum has a small amount of the ingredient – great to see how it works for your skin, and it’s blended with Niacinamide, which helps overall skin tone. It does pair nicely with the sunscreen (meaning there’s no pilling) and both prep your skin for the day. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
