That’s key when vitamin C, a notoriously fickle, unstable ingredient, is concerned. “Stabilizing the vitamin C is [C E Ferulic’s] actual profit. Ascorbic acid itself is a good ingredient, but when it is breaking down, it isn’t helpful in any respect,” Dobos explains. She says that by itself, pure vitamin C would solely final a few week earlier than destabilizing and turning into ineffective. Dobos tells me that, based on the patent, the addition of ferulic acid preserves “90 % of vitamin C when stability examined for one month at 45 levels Celsius [113 degrees Fahrenheit].” SkinCeuticals’ web site touts testing that discovered that its elements “stay potent to the final drop for as much as 36 months.”
SkinCeuticals patented their formulation when it launched and has been vigilant in defending it. Again in 2018, L’Oréal, which owns SkinCeuticals, sued Drunk Elephant, claiming that its C-Firma serum was too near C E Ferulic for consolation (the case was dismissed two years later). However patents sometimes expire after about 20 years and now different corporations will be capable to legally attempt to replicate C E Ferulic’s potent ingredient make-up.
There are already many “dupes” for C E Ferulic, as a fast prowl by Reddit’s SkincareAddiction discussion board will inform you, however none of them might have the identical ingredient balanC E—till now. “I feel we’ll get a variety of opponents leaping in and attempting to create a dupe product for decrease value,” Dobos speculates.
(So far as Attract is aware of, there may be up to now at the least one new C E Ferulic serum coming from one other model this 12 months, although we will’t share the main points but.)
However earlier than you add a brand new and cheaper C E Ferulic dupe to your Amazon cart, Dobos advises doing all of your analysis and being skeptical of manufacturers that capitalize on the patent expiry too shortly. “Are they as high-quality and secure as one thing from SkinCeuticals?” she says.
As beauty chemist Perry Romanowski factors out, having the identical ingredient make-up as SkinCeuticals’ authentic C E Ferulic doesn’t assure {that a} formulation can have the identical efficacy. Efficiency comes right down to the standard of the elements themselves and the product manufacturing course of, too. “Someone can put in vitamin C, not stabilize it, put within the vitamin E and ferulic acid, then say it is the identical as SkinCeuticals,” he says.
