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Benzoyl peroxide and vitamin C

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Benzoyl peroxide and vitamin C: keep them apart

Keep them apart

Use them at different times of day with Vitamin C in the morning and benzoyl peroxide at night, because they cancel each other out. Benzoyl peroxide oxidizes and destroys vitamin C so neither ingredient can work properly. The shopper can separate them by using vitamin C in the morning and benzoyl peroxide at night.

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Questions and answers

Can you use benzoyl peroxide and vitamin C together?

No, you should keep benzoyl peroxide and vitamin C apart in your routine because benzoyl peroxide oxidizes and deactivates vitamin C. Instead, use vitamin C in the morning and benzoyl peroxide at night.

Which goes first, benzoyl peroxide or vitamin C?

Keep benzoyl peroxide and vitamin C apart by using vitamin C in the morning and benzoyl peroxide at night, because combining them oxidizes and inactivates the vitamin C.

Are benzoyl peroxide and vitamin C good for sensitive skin?

Keep benzoyl peroxide and vitamin C apart in your routine because benzoyl peroxide oxidizes and deactivates vitamin C. Use vitamin C in the morning and benzoyl peroxide at night to avoid this reaction.

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Behind this pairing advice

Lovi checks every pairing with brand-independent rules our dermatologists and cosmetic chemists build and review, and personalizes every pick with AI trained on the real results of millions of users. Lovi trains its fit score models on a proprietary dataset built from more than 10,000 expert-labeled products and more than 100,000 simulated examples, following an internally consistent methodology presented at Cosmoprof, AMWC, and Skin of Color Update.

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