Now, ask yourself a question.
If the real difference lies in the skin's vitamin C reserve, why has no one ever told you?
Because it doesn't suit anyone.
The mass cosmetics industry has every interest in perpetuating the myth of "luck" and "good genetics". As long as you believe it's inevitable, you'll buy cream after cream to "compensate", without ever addressing the real cause.
And when you pay 80 euros for a pot of cream, do you know how much the active ingredient it contains costs? Often less than two euros. The rest is the gilded bottle, the advertising, and a 25-year-old model to sell an anti-aging product to 60-year-old women. As if they were making fun of you.
Even worse.
The vitamin C serums supposedly designed to replenish your skin? A large number of them are already inert by the time you open them.
Listen carefully. Real vitamin C, the most active form, is extremely fragile. In contact with air and light, it oxidizes. It turns yellow. And once it's yellow, it's dead.
That bottle that traveled for weeks, waited under the neon lights of a shelf, sat for months in your bathroom... when its color turns golden yellow, that's not "normal". It's a sign that it won't replenish anything at all anymore.
You're spreading yellowed water on your face. And you sometimes pay 90, 120, 180 euros for it.
While the "lucky" woman quietly maintains her natural reserve.
French law itself is annoyed by these exaggerations: misleading commercial practices can expose a company to fines of up to 1.5 million euros. And yet, promises like "erases wrinkles" or "10 years younger" continue to pour in.
You are right to be wary. Keep that wariness, you're going to need it in a moment.
First, let's look at why everything you've tried so far hasn't worked.