Retinol, Vitamin C, and Sun Sensitivity

Name: Retinol, Vitamin C, and Sun Sensitivity
Uploaded: 2025-08-22T12:00:07+00:00
Duration: 32 s
Channel: Dr. Charles Mok
Description: This content was created by Dr. Charles Mok. This content was uploaded by Dr. Charles Mok. This is a YouTube video titled "Retinol, Vitamin C, and Sun…

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This content was created by Dr. Charles Mok. This content was uploaded by Dr. Charles Mok. This is a YouTube video titled "Retinol, Vitamin C, and Sun Sensitivity" (created 2025-08-22) featuring a single speaker offering skincare advice. The speaker discusses seasonal differences in skincare (summer vs. winter), topical vitamin C (noting it bonds to elastin and collagen for about 36 hours and that the product used contains seven forms of vitamin C to reduce oxidation), effects on skin brightness, redness and brown spots, and the use of retinol/retinoid (vitamin A) products and their potential to increase sun sensitivity.

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Let's talk about what you might do different in the summer than in the winter. If you're living in, say, where I'm at, Michigan. It might be different in Florida, where you have some of my conditions year round. So vitamin C bonds to your elastin and Collagen for about 36 hours of topical vitamin C. We use a vitamin C that has seven different forms of vitamin C in it. That way they don't oxidize and it actually helps keep your collagen and elastin from degrading, increases your brightness to your skin, decreases redness and brown spots. Retinol or tretinol that we use. There's different types of vitamin A forms, retinols and vitamin A. And these are a little sun sensitizing.