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What is hyaluronic acid?
Have you heard of hyaluronic acid? If not, you may think it sounds like the least likely thing you would want near your skin. Acid for your skin? Yikes!
But, in reality, hyaluronic acid is one of the best ingredients you can include in your morning and evening skin care routines. Let’s start with a definition. What is hyaluronic acid? Chemically speaking, hyaluronic acid, or HA, is a polymer, which means its molecules are chains of many small units put together.
“Hyaluronic acid is a sugar molecule found naturally in the body,” said Jason Rothouse, a principal research scientist for Artistry™ skin care and beauty products. “It’s one of the main components of connective tissue, such as collagen.”
What is hyaluronic acid good for?
Researchers are studying hyaluronic acid for a variety of uses and conditions because it has a wide array of biological functions, like supporting flexibility and hydration. Depending on its intended purpose, HA can be formulated to take orally as a supplement, as a topical product to apply to skin, into eye drops or even injections.
When it comes to hyaluronic acid skin benefits, it’s all about hydration and plumping. And that typically comes in the form of hyaluronic acid as a moisturizer or a serum with hyaluronic acid.
“Hyaluronic acid has the unique ability of being able to bind a very large amount of water to itself – approximately a thousand times its weight in water*,” Rothouse said. “Because of that, HA is a very well-known ingredient used in topical skin care to help attract and retain moisture in the skin.”
Hyaluronic acid skin benefits
While hyaluronic acid occurs naturally in our skin helping to keep it elastic and looking healthy, as we age our bodies are not able to maintain natural production of it. That means over time our hyaluronic acid levels decrease and so do their benefits.
That’s why, as Rothouse said, HA is a popular ingredient in skin care products. Here’s the thing though: Hyaluronic acid molecules come in different sizes, and that limits their effectiveness.
“To ensure the most hyaluronic acid benefits, it’s important to look for a product that has multiple sizes of HA molecules,” Rothouse said. “Artistry Skin Nutrition™ Vitamin C+HA3 Daily Serum incorporates three different sizes of HA molecules, each complementing and amplifying the effects of the others.”
- The smallest HA molecules in the Daily Serum boost and balance internal moisture levels, keeping the skin better hydrated and more elastic and flexible over time.
- The mid-sized HA molecules provide an immediate volumizing effect that plumps up the skin for a firmer, more cushioned surface.
- And the largest molecules help hydrate and smooth the appearance of expression lines or other wrinkles.
“The HA3 Fusion was specifically designed to address the slowing production and decreasing efficacy of skin's natural hyaluronic acid as we age,” Rothouse said.
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