THE VITAMIN A PATHWAY 👨🏼🔬 In order to have an effect on the skin, vitamin A must be converted along the ‘vitamin A pathway’ to reach its biologically active form called retinoic acid. So whichever form you apply, it ultimately needs to reach retinoic acid before any of the benefits can happen. There are FOUR STEPS to the conversion into retinoic acid and the fewer conversions required, the faster the benefits are delivered to the skin. SIMPLE.
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RETINYL ESTERS 🕘
The weakest form of vitamin A, it requires a minimum of THREE conversions and must go through the full vitamin A cycle. This means the anti-ageing benefits take a long time to be realised. As the ‘Experts in vitamin A’ we don’t use… Mehr
