Search
Close this search box.
Home Skin and Hair care Ingredients Dissolves well Tetrahexyldecyl Ascorbate

Tetrahexyldecyl Ascorbate

INCI: Ascorbyl Tetraisopalmitate

slightly oily feel and may be colorless to pale yellow in appearance, depending on the supplier

Overview

Tetrahexyldecyl Ascorbate is a stable, oil-soluble form of skincare big shot Vitamin C.

Vitamin C is great and all, but it’s really unstable and gives cosmetics companies many headaches. To solve this problem they came up with vitamin C derivatives, and one of them is Tetrahexyldecyl Ascorbate (let’s call it ATIP in short).

ORGANIC FORMULATION: tbd

regulations

REGUATORY STATUS: widely accepted

care

Possible Health Concerns/Side Effects: considered safe

restricted in: widely accepted

It’s a really promising candidate, but while reading all the goodness about it in a minute, do not forget that derivatives not only have to be absorbed into the skin but also have to be converted to pure vitamin C (ascorbic acid or AA) and the efficacy of the conversion is often unknown. In addition, vitamin C’s three magic properties (antioxidant, collagen booster, skin brightener) are all properly proven in-vivo (on real people), but for the derivatives, it’s mostly in-vitro studies or in the case of ATIP, it’s in-vitro and done by an ingredient supplier.

With this context in mind let’s see what ATIP might be able to do. First, it is stable (if pH < 5), easy to formulate and a joy to work with for a cosmetic chemist.

Second, because it’s oil-soluble, its skin penetration abilities seem to be great. So great in fact, that it surpasses the penetration of pure vitamin C threefold at the same concentration and it penetrates successfully into the deeper layers of the skin (that is usually important to do some anti-aging work). There is also in-vitro data showing that it converts to AA in the skin. 

Third, ATIP seems to have all three magic abilities of pure vitamin C: it gives antioxidant protection from both UVB and UVA rays, it increases collagen synthesis (even more than AA) and it has a skin brightening effect by reducing melanogenesis by more than 80% in human melanoma cell cultures.

So this all sounds really great, but these are only in-vitro results at this point. We could find Tetrahexyldecyl Ascorbate mentioned only in one published in-vivo study that examined the anti-aging properties of a silicone formula containing 10% AA and 7% ATIP. The authors theorized that the 10% AA is released slowly from the silicon delivery system and probably stays in the upper layer of the skin to give antioxidant benefits, while ATIP penetrates more rapidly and deeply and gives some wrinkle-reducing benefits. The study was a small (10 patients), double-blind experiment, and the formula did show some measurable anti-aging results. However, it is hard to know how much pure vitamin C or ATIP can be thanked.

Bottom line: a really promising, but not well-proven vitamin C derivative that can be worth a try especially if you like experimenting (but if you like the tried and true, pure vitamin C will be your best bet).

click link to sources
nothing to show here for now

Related Ingredients

Longans

Longans

Lingonberry Fruit Extract

Lingonberry Fruit Extract

Hydroxyacetophenone

About skin hair care
About skin hair care
Hydroxyacetophenone

Ferulic Acid

About skin hair care
About skin hair care
Ferulic Acid

Ethylhexylglycerin

About skin hair care
About skin hair care
Ethylhexylglycerin

Benzyl Alcohol

Benzyl Alcohol

Agarum Cribrosum Extract

Agarum Cribrosum Extract

Vitamin C

Vitamin C

Rose Apple Leaf Extract BG- 30

Rose Apple Leaf Extract BG- 30

Resveratrol

Resveratrol

Phytic Acid

About skin hair care
About skin hair care
Phytic Acid

Dicaprylyl Carbonate

About skin hair care
About skin hair care
Dicaprylyl Carbonate

Butylene Glycol

Butylene Glycol
Search

Learn About 500+ Natural & Organic Skin And Hair Care Ingredients