Active, morning
Bright Side
15% Vitamin C + E + Ferulic Serum
Brightens the present. The future is on its own.
15% L-ascorbic acid with vitamin E and ferulic acid, the antioxidant trio with the best-known papers in skincare. Built for dullness, uneven tone, and the daily oxidative stress that dulls skin. Fragrance-free because this formula has actual work to do.
- Best for
- Dullness · Uneven tone · Oxidative stress · Visible photoaging
- Actives
- L-Ascorbic Acid 15%, Vitamin E, Ferulic Acid
- When
- Morning. After cleansing, before everything else.
- Texture
- Liquid glass. Gone in a minute, in a good way.
- Pairs with
- Mixed Signals (after it, a minute apart), Baby's Bottom (then moisturize)
- Not at the same time
- Coming of Age (morning versus night; they never meet)
- Scent
- Unfragranced. On purpose.
- Status
- Formulated. Bottles pending.
- 15% L-ascorbic acid is the studied benchmark, not a decorative sprinkle.
- Vitamin E and ferulic acid stabilize the system and multiply its antioxidant protection in the studies.
- Fragrance-free, because vitamin C formulas are dramatic enough.
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The money is in the bottle. No private equity, no venture capital, formulated in our own lab at the studied strengths. Why the price
Why it exists
The antioxidant serum that all skincare enthusiasts need to own. 15% L-ascorbic acid with vitamin E and ferulic acid, the antioxidant trio with the best-known papers in skincare. No fragrance. No suspense.
Before and after
Tone evens out. Sun spots fade, slowly.
Drag the line.
The numbers
What the studies found.
2×
Ferulic acid improved the chemical stability of the 15% vitamin C and 1% vitamin E solution and roughly doubled its protection against oxidative stress in the study.
Lin 2005, J Invest Dermatol. PMID 16185284
Same strength as ours
6 months
Daily 5% vitamin C cream against its base on photoaged skin: significant improvement in global score, denser microrelief, shallower deep furrows.
Humbert 2003, Exp Dermatol. Double-blind, randomized. PMID 12823436
Every study, one list Figures checked against PubMed abstracts 2026-09-03.
Important actives
What’s in it, and why.
The useful ingredients get names. The rest of the formula does the less glamorous work of making them feel good on a face.
The reference antioxidant, at the studied concentration.
What the research says
Adding ferulic acid to 15% vitamin C and 1% vitamin E stabilized the solution and doubled its antioxidant protection of skin in the study, from roughly 4-fold to 8-fold. Pig skin in vivo; the same formula was then shown to protect human skin (Murray 2008).
Read the paper PMID 16185284Pairs with vitamin C to strengthen antioxidant protection.
Stabilizes the C and, in the study, roughly doubled the trio's antioxidant protection. We kept that receipt.
Fragrance
None. On purpose.
The actives had enough going on.
- Top
- None.
- Heart
- None.
- Base
- None. That is the structure.
Why there is none. The three serums carry the actives, and the actives have enough going on. Vitamin C at pH 3, copper peptides and retinal are not improved by a scent sitting on top of them, and skin on a retinoid is exactly the skin most likely to object to one.
What was left out. No masking fragrance to hide the smell of vitamin C either. The faint note of the ingredient, for a moment, is the receipt.
How to use
Morning, on a clean dry face. Then moisturizer, then SPF, then the day.
Questions
Asked, answered.
Why 15% vitamin C?
Because that is the concentration in the study everyone quotes. Pinnell's group found L-ascorbic acid absorption into skin rises with concentration up to about 20%, and 15% L-ascorbic acid with 1% vitamin E and 0.5% ferulic acid gave the result we cite. Higher numbers add sting, not benefit. Twenty is a marketing number. Fifteen is a study number.
Can I use vitamin C and niacinamide together?
Yes. The warning that they cancel each other out comes from test-tube chemistry and from flushing caused by low-grade niacinamide, not from any skin trial. Both have good human data on their own and layer fine. Bright Side first, wait a minute, then Mixed Signals.
How long before I see results?
Softness and hydration from Baby's Bottom: the same day. Brightness from Bright Side: a few weeks. Changes to texture and lines from Coming of Age: eight to twelve weeks of consistent use, which is the timescale the retinoid trials measured. Anyone promising overnight is selling the overnight.
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