Vitamin C & Caffeine are 2 PROVEN ingredients in beauty products… Will my own lotion do the same as purchased?
I can’t afford the high-end Vitamin C lotions that are supposed to help your skin and tighten the skin under your eyes… I know that most under eye creams that do any good at all contain caffeine…
If I take a pill of vitamin C and grind it up with half a caffeine pill (100mg) and mix that in a half a small shot glass of lotion such as Clean & Clear Dual Action Moisturizer… will it be anything like the extremely expensive Vitamin C and Caffeine laced products you buy in department stores?
I have learned that caffeine will make the lotion smell funny if you put it in the bottle and vitamin c evaporates so I would make up a new batch each time I used it to keep it fresh and potent.
I’m looking to firm up the under eye area and shrink pores made HUGE by the use of self tanning lotion that, apparently, doesn’t like me very much…
Thanks for ANY info you can provide!
October 19th, 2010 - 12:33
Those ingredients may need to be encapsulated in liposomes somehow.
Vitamin C will not evaporate, but it will degrade on contact with any oxygen in the lotion introduced by mixing, and undergo a color change as a result.