Silymarin CF.

"SkinCeuticals Silymarin CF has been a standout. It's nice for those with acne prone skin, oilier skin types. It has the milk thistle extract, silymarin antioxidant that works well with your vitamin C and vitamin E in that serum to work on regulating sebum. You don't want to have more sebum to add to the acne causing bacteria. It will help regulate that while brightening your skin."

"If you have oilier skin, I really like SkinCeuticals CF, which is a powerful antioxidant that comes from milk thistle and you have the vitamin C and ferulic acid with that. Better for regulating the sebum. It's very good for those with acne prone skin."

"If you have oilier skin types, I like this Silymarin CF antioxidant. Helps brighten the skin, reduce the dark spots on my face. I recently have been dealing with a new sun freckle that showed up on my nose and I've been using the Silymarin and [...] alternating every other day with other vitamin C serums. [...] It is quite powerful in lightening those dark spots. [...] I prefer vitamin C serums every day before your sunscreen."

"If you want to have oilier skin types, I would have to say their Silymarin CF is the way to go. You still have the 15% L-ascorbic acid, you have ferulic acid, but you also have silymarin which is from milk thistle. And this is a powerful antioxidant which is specifically great for those who are acne prone or with oilier skin types because it reduces lipid peroxidation. When you have the oxidation of your skin oils, your sebum, it actually will be detrimental to your skin when it comes to inflammation, acne causing bacteria feeding off of the sebum and causing more inflammation. And when you have inflammation, it's going to lead to more dark spots and post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation, especially in my patients who are skin of color. I'm not going to say that this treats acne, but it's good for those who are acne prone because I've had patients come in saying that they're using vitamin C to help battle their acne. [...] If you are dealing with acne or you tend to break out with inflammatory acne, you can consider certain products like SkinCeuticals Silymarin CF, but it is a higher price point. I do like that SkinCeuticals has great studies backing up their products. They put in a lot of money to have these trials and get concrete evidence to back it up."

"SkinCeuticals Silymarin CF is great for those with acne prone skin. If you have the money, go for 15% ascorbic acid in SkinCeuticals CE Ferulic, Florutin CF, and their Silymarin CF. [...] You're paying for the reputation, the studies backing it up, the science behind SkinCeuticals products. It's been out for a long time and a lot of dermatologists stand by it."

"Silymarin CF is also great. Consider applying an antioxidant serum like vitamin C to your face, your neck, your chest. Vitamin C is a very powerful antioxidant that will help prevent oxidative stress in our skin and oxidative stress from pollution and sunlight will lead to wrinkles and dark spots. We call it photoaging and so vitamin C will not replace sunscreen but it's a great thing to add into your morning routine. You can do it morning and night but I usually say that's too much vitamin C. You're looking into trouble maybe getting a contact dermatitis irritating your skin. Also vitamin C binds to copper and will actually inhibit tyrosinase which is an enzyme that's important in the production of melanin aka pigment. So if you have dark spots and you want to work on dark spots on the face go right ahead and consider a vitamin C serum in your morning routine."

"If you still really are interested in an expensive skincare product and you want to stick with SkinCeuticals because they created vitamin C, I personally like the Silymarin CF product better. It's got a 0.5% salicylic acid, it's still got that ferulic acid in it, and for me silymarin is an incredible ingredient. There's a lot of evidence that it can be helpful for even melasma, compared it to hydroquinone in some studies. So silymarin is an incredible ingredient to me. My skin just tolerates this formula a lot better. I don't know if it's the pH, I don't know what's in it overall, but my skin just does a lot better than it does with the other vitamin C."

"I actually like the Silymarin CF so it's also a 10% but it has the additional benefit of a little bit of salicylic acid and silymarin and silymarin has actually been shown in studies to be equivalent to hydroquinone in its ability to fade dark spots and so 1% silymarin is very similar in efficacy to 4% I believe of hydroquinone and that's the reason why we put silymarin in our remedy for dark spots product as well"

"It's just a pretty expensive acne serum. Yeah, it has salicylic acid, but you need to be spending that kind of coin on a salicylic acid serum for your acne? I don't think that the research really supports that at this point. It seems like a pretty steep price point to pay for the potential benefit of the antioxidants in the serum. While the SkinCeuticals Silymarin CF serum does have some clinical studies to back it up, they are not perfect and I think I pointed out their limitations in my video reviewing that. When it comes to putting antioxidants on the skin, they're cosmetic ingredients and their efficacy really boils down to the formulation overall of the product in terms of if the antioxidants actually get in. They're tricky ingredients to work with. Personally I do use antioxidants in my skincare routine, but are they necessary? Are they essential? No. And you do have to take the industry studies that back them up with a huge grain of salt. Not to say that they are useless, but the devil is in the details as far as their efficacy in terms of if they are going to work. The formula has to be good."

"I don't believe this product is offering you anything necessarily that you'd need to plunk down a hundred and sixty nine dollars on. At its heart this is a salicylic acid acne treatment with some antioxidants in it. It doesn't make it a bad product, but does it make it worth a hundred and sixty nine dollars for somebody who's dealing with acne? I don't think so, because you can go to the drugstore and get a salicylic acid treatment for a fraction of the price. I do think silymarin has potential for improving acne because of its anti-inflammatory effects, but the research just isn't there yet, and there's really no data showing it helps with oiliness or sebum specifically. If you're already using a salicylic acid treatment and want to add a vitamin C serum to your routine, I'd suggest the Silymarin CF, because you'd get the salicylic acid and the vitamin C together and cut down on the number of products you use."

"SkinCeuticals has their Silymarin CF which is 0.5% salicylic acid, it's much lighter than a two percent salicylic acid and it's combined with ascorbic acid and ferulic acids. You can use this underneath your sunscreen if you are somebody who wears a lot of makeup and you don't want your makeup swimming over your face because you get so oily during the day."

"I like the Silymarin CF by SkinCeuticals because it has salicylic acid in it which is oil loving so it's going to help regulate that for you."

"If you're somebody who is very oily or acne prone, there is a vitamin C by SkinCeuticals, the Silymarin CF, which is ascorbic acid plus salicylic acid. So the salicylic acid is going to go in deeper into your pores to help declog them and allow for the vitamin C to work."

"They have their Silimarin CF which is the newest one of the bunch. It does not have hyaluronic acid in it whereas the C Ferulic does and it is better suited for oily skin especially also their Floretus and CF if you have acne I would try that one."

"This is a combination of 15 percent ascorbic acid as well as 0.5 percent silimarin and 0.5 percent salicylic acid, so it's great if you have oily skin or acne-prone skin. I will say if you're sensitive, it might still be too much because ascorbic acid, the pure form of vitamin C, can be a little bit irritating."

"My top recommendation for a silymarin product is the SkinCeuticals Silymarin CF. I am specifically recommending the SkinCeuticals product in this routine because it is an ideal combination of three main components. It has 15 percent pure L ascorbic acid vitamin C and ferulic acid just like what is found in the industry gold standard vitamin C serums. The C, E, and ferulic in this product is what is going to be your powerhouse anti-aging ingredient to rebuild the collagen in your skin, fade dark spots, and serve as an antioxidant. So that tackles the anti-aging component, and it has silymarin at 0.5 percent and a 0.5 percent concentration of salicylic acid which tackles the acne component of your skin. Salicylic acid is another powerhouse ingredient for preventing and treating acne and it is also one of the first line treatments that dermatologists think about using in our treatment algorithms for acne patients. So with just a few simple drops of this, you are really getting a ton of benefits all in one."

"In addition to the 15 percent pure vitamin C and ferulic acid found in the C E Ferulic, the Silymarin CF also has 0.5 percent silymarin extract and 0.5 percent salicylic acid. Because salicylic acid is a powerhouse ingredient for preventing and treating acne, this serum is one of the most complete all-in-one options that I have come across. For that reason, I find this product very unique and hard to match with a lower price option."