What Is Vitamin A Really Good For?

Vitamin A contributes to the growth and maintenance of the epidermis. Vitamin A also has an effect on impure skin, sun-damaged skin, pigmentation and wrinkles. You may also know vitamin A referred to as retinol. Find out more about the powerful vitamin right here.

What Is Vitamin A?

Vitamin A is a fat-soluble vitamin that is stored in our fat tissue and in the liver and is slowly released into our body. We get it via the diet from foods such as liver, fish, eggs, milk and dairy products. In the plant kingdom, we find it in orange and dark green plants such as carrot, spinach, apricot and melon. Our body needs vitamin A because it helps the body, among other things, to maintain normal skin, normal vision and a normal immune system.

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What Are the Advantages and Disadvantages of Vitamin A in Skin Care?

If we look at skin care products and why vitamin A, or retinol, as it is also called, is so popular in creams and serums, it is because vitamin A contributes to normal skin. But there are both advantages and disadvantages to the potent vitamin. 

Advantage

We are all born with protective vitamin A in our skin. But the level decreases the more sunlight we expose the skin to and the older we get. It has been proven that vitamin A can improve the skin's structure, remedy impure skin, wrinkles and sun damage in the form of, for example, pigment spots. And then it has an effect on dry skin. We are therefore talking about an ingredient which is able to influence the behavior of the skin cells. 

Disadvantages

Vitamin A is a particularly fragile vitamin, which is sensitive to both light and air and can therefore have a limited active life - especially retinol in products can be difficult to control, as they are less stable and easily disintegrate. In addition, there are different concentrations, which mean that you can either get too much or too little. Too much vitamin A can irritate the skin if it is not used to the ingredient. One should slowly step up and start every other day when using the ingredient. With expert guidance and small steps, you will go a long way.

What Vitamin A Does – 4 Beautifying Benefits

If we have to make a quick summary of the beautifying benefits that the vitamin provides for skin care, then it is the following:

Lighten and even out pigment spots
First of all, vitamin A can change and repair the skin. The vitamin can lighten and even out pigment spots, as vitamin A increases the turnover of surface cells, so that new and brighter cells appear more quickly.

Reduce pores
Vitamin A can enter and change the size of pores that have been damaged by pimples or the sun, so that they are reduced.

Make the skin smoother and thicker
Our collagen formation increases in depth, which also gives a smoother and fuller surface on the skin. Vitamin A makes it easier for the skin to produce healthier cells.

Normalize imbalances
Vitamin A has a normalizing and restorative effect on imbalances, both when it comes to wrinkles, impure or dry skin.