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10% Vitamin C + E Ferulic Acid Serum.

Timeless 10% Vitamin C + E Ferulic Acid Serum
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About this product

An antioxidant serum from Timeless combining 10% vitamin C with vitamin E and ferulic acid, formulated to brighten and protect skin at a budget price.

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What the gurus are saying

Gurus consistently praise this as an exceptional budget dupe for expensive vitamin C serums like Skinceuticals, delivering comparable results at a fraction of the cost. The 10% strength is celebrated as ideal for sensitive skin or those starting with vitamin C, with the airless pump packaging lauded for protecting stability and extending shelf life. The only recurring caution is not to stockpile due to oxidation risk, and a few reviewers note the 20% version may feel too strong on certain skin types.
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Key actives & flags

Vitamin CHyaluronic acidVitamin EFragrance-freeAlcohol-free

Full ingredients

Water, Ethoxydiglycol, L Ascorbic Acid, Propylene Glycol, Alpha Tocopherol, Polysorbate 80, Panthenol, Ferulic Acid, Sodium Hyaluronate, Benzyl Alcohol, Dehydroacetic Acid

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What the gurus are saying.

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"One of my personal favorites is Timeless. This is the Timeless 10% Vitamin C + E Ferulic Acid Serum. They do 10, they do a 20. As with the retinoids earlier, I would say start with the 10, work your way up to the 20. Maybe use two bottles of the 10, then buy the 20. That way, your skin can get used to it, minimize side effects and irritation. Vitamin C helps create more collagen, but it's also preventative. It prevents that collagen degradation. So it's a bit of a double whammy. Vitamin C to get your glow game on point, prevent any collagen degradation, and also boost collagen production is another absolute essential when it comes to anti-aging."
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"One of my personal favorites is Timeless. This is the Timeless 10% Vitamin C + E Ferulic Acid Serum. They do 10, they do a 20. As with the retinoids earlier, I would say start with the 10, work your way up to the 20. Maybe use two bottles of the 10, then buy the 20. That way, your skin can get used to it, minimize side effects and irritation. Vitamin C helps create more collagen, but it's also preventative. It prevents that collagen degradation. So it's a bit of a double whammy. Vitamin C to get your glow game on point, prevent any collagen degradation, and also boost collagen production is another absolute essential when it comes to anti-aging."
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"If you like to just use your vitamin C every single day, that's absolutely fine. My recommendation would probably be this, the Timeless Vitamin C 10%. A little does go a long way."
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"They do a 10%, they do a 20%. Different strengths work for different people. If you have sensitive skin, go for the 10%. If you've got resilient skin, go for the 20%. You got your furic acid. You've got your other antioxidants in here. You've also got a penetration enhancing ingredient which is really going to help this vitamin C to get into the skin to be super effective. Works really quickly. It has enhanced results. I actually find I got better results from this than the $150 skin suiticles. This is a fraction of the cost. With this one, don't go wild and put 12 on order because whilst it is in airtight packaging, you will still get some oxidation if you leave it too long. So, I put like a maximum of two on order because you don't want it to be sitting around losing efficacy. I like the 10%, I like the 20%. It really just comes down to individual skin sensitivity and needs. Both work really, really well. An already ridiculously affordable vitamin C that comes in the best packaging that delivers so quickly and is just an all round superstar product."
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"If you have a more sensitive skin type, go for this one which is the 10% in the orange bottle. Both will work in the long term. It'll just be the speed at which you get those results dictated by the strength you go for. Great pH for maximum absorption. Also has a penetration enhancing ingredient in here which is amazing if you're looking to just double down on the speed at which you get your results. Just nice blend of antioxidants and it comes in an airless pump. So if you're somebody that likes your airless pump packaging, this is a really great option. And again, that will extend the shelf life of this vitamin C from 3 months to something like four or 5 months."
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"These are the timeless vitamin C's. This is the 10% in the larger bottle. Generally speaking, 10% better for sensitive skin. You get antioxidants and vitamin C together in this beautiful packaging, beautiful formulation, the best skin suiticles dupe out there. Skin suit is like £130. This is something like 19. Vitamin C works best when it's fresh. So go with the size that meets how much you're actually going to use it and that way it keeps fresh for longer."
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"This is the Timeless 10% Vitamin C, and I use the 10% strength. They do a higher strength version which people absolutely rave about, but for me it's a little too prickly on the skin. I find the 10% just works the best. One of the most effective vitamin C's out there and a beautiful formulation. Because Timeless formulations don't have the longest shelf life, their average product will last about 6 months from the date it arrives, so don't buy too much that potentially could waste it."
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"This is the Timeless vitamin C, and they do two strengths, this is the 10%, they also do a 20%. For me, my skin just loves a 10% vitamin C where I get maximum results, minimum irritation. If your skin is more resilient, you're an established vitamin C user, you can go for the 20% and you're probably going to see some enhanced results, but for me 10% just works universally. I think it's super easy to fit into a skincare routine and I get some great results. You guys have been asking me to try this out and review it for the longest time. Around 3 months ago I finally decided to take the plunge, the fear of missing out crept up on me, and I've never looked back. This is phenomenal."
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"This is a 10% L-ascorbic acid plus vitamin E and ferulic acid serum, which are the same three trifecta ingredients that you will find in Skinceuticals C E Ferulic, but this one is way, way more affordable and in my opinion, in my experience, it is every bit as good as that one and you save over $100 on this one. Vitamin C serum is an absolutely crucial ingredient in a very well-rounded anti-aging routine. Putting a vitamin C under your sunscreen in the morning is going to supercharge your SPF results because vitamin C is an antioxidant. That means it will scavenge those free radicals that the sun creates on our skin, and those free radicals are what attack our collagen and break our collagen apart. So if you put a vitamin C serum under your sunscreen in the morning, you're going to supercharge your results and you're going to keep the collagen in your skin for longer. You are going to prevent it from breaking down from UV damage. It's going to scavenge those free radicals away. This one you can often find for 40, even 50% off, so that makes this around $13."
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"This is a 10% L-ascorbic acid plus vitamin E and ferulic acid serum, which are the same three trifecta ingredients that you will find in Skinceuticals C E Ferulic, but this one is way, way more affordable and in my opinion, in my experience, it is every bit as good as that one and you save over $100 on this one. Vitamin C serum is an absolutely crucial ingredient in a very well-rounded anti-aging routine. Putting a vitamin C under your sunscreen in the morning is going to supercharge your SPF results because vitamin C is an antioxidant. That means it will scavenge those free radicals that the sun creates on our skin, and those free radicals are what attack our collagen and break our collagen apart. So if you put a vitamin C serum under your sunscreen in the morning, you're going to supercharge your results and you're going to keep the collagen in your skin for longer. You are going to prevent it from breaking down from UV damage. It's going to scavenge those free radicals away. This one you can often find for 40, even 50% off, so that makes this around $13."
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"This is one of my all-time favorite budget friendly swaps for that really expensive skin care product. This usually is $26 or $27, but last year I got this for 50% off. This is 10% vitamin C, L-ascorbic acid, which is right in that range of 10 to 15% that is effective. It also comes in a 20% version. This also has vitamin E and ferulic acid in it. Another thing I love about this that I think makes it even better is its packaging. It is an opaque closed container with a pump top. So this really takes care of the stability, protecting it from light and air. And this formula is just really simple and straightforward."
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"10% is still a great dose to give you results and it actually even can decrease your side effects a little bit by bringing down the percentage of l-ascorbic acid. This one by Timeless is so so so affordable, I think baseline it's under $30 and then right now 40% off. I love the packaging of this, everything about this product is a 10 out of 10. If you don't need this unless you are like a rockstar vitamin C user, you are an advanced user, you've used it a long time, you don't have sensitive skin and you have like really stubborn dark spots or wrinkles."
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"This is one of my favorite L ascorbic acid serums, which is way more affordable than the THD serum. This one by Timeless is the 10% vitamin C. You can get results with this. I strongly wholeheartedly believe you can get incredible vitamin C results from this just as much as you can from the $182 vitamin C serum. We don't need that. Their L ascorbic acid vitamin C E ferulic is amazing."
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"This next pick is by Timeless, their 10% vitamin C serum with L-ascorbic acid. This one also contains vitamin E and ferulic acid, so this is going to be my recommendation for somebody who really loves that skincare routine type of vitamin C serum that has those three in the trifecta to make it work the best: vitamin C, vitamin E, and ferulic acid. This contains the same trifecta but at a little bit lower percentage. This has 10% vitamin C instead of 15% that you find in similar products, and I kind of like that better because I don't even think more is better. You don't absolutely have to use a higher percentage to get more benefits; sometimes that just causes more side effects. So this is actually a really good budget swap. A little bit lower concentration at 10%, but overall this formula is very simple. There's not a lot of other additives in this, really simple, really straightforward formula at a good entry-level vitamin C at a really affordable price."
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"I'm particularly fond of the 10% vitamin C because I think it's pretty hard to find a 10% vitamin C. We know from studies that that is sufficient to be effective, and also the irritation is lower the lower the concentration you get. So I think this is a perfect vitamin C serum if you're looking for a new one or even if you want something to last with you over time and you have sensitive skin. 10% is great, my favorite product from them. It's a 10% vitamin C serum for like $15 with vitamin E and ferulic acid, the stabilizers and the penetration enhancers to make it more effective."
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"They put it in a glass airless pump bottle. A lot of people in years past had been having trouble with the old plastic packaging the pump leaking, this one doesn't leak at all. They used to only sell this in a 1 oz size, they started this year selling it in a 1.7 oz size. The other thing that they came out with this year is the same vitamin C serum but in a 10% strength because a lot of people can't use the 20%, it's just a little bit too strong. This is all the same great helper ingredients and the same formula as the 20%."
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"The vitamin C that I put on my neck is also from Timeless, it's their 10% vitamin C serum so this is going to be just a little bit gentler than the 20 version."
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"They put it in a glass airless pump bottle. A lot of people in years past had been having trouble with the old plastic packaging the pump leaking, this one doesn't leak at all. They used to only sell this in a 1 oz size, they started this year selling it in a 1.7 oz size. The other thing that they came out with this year is the same vitamin C serum but in a 10% strength because a lot of people can't use the 20%, it's just a little bit too strong. This is all the same great helper ingredients and the same formula as the 20%."
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"Timeless has really good vitamin C products. These are 10% ascorbic acid as well as a 20%. The orange one is the 10 and the yellow one is the 20. It comes in an opaque pump which I prefer to a dropper. It retails for 24 bucks."
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"I love this brand and I will still continue to use this brand. Ascorbic acid has a lower pH. It's more acidic. And so, this is going to create that cell turnover and it works a little bit quicker. With vitamin C derivatives, they have a higher pH around five or six. The same pH is what your skin is naturally, which is why it tends to be more gentle, but with derivatives, they can take a little bit longer to work as well. In my opinion, and from my experience, it really is just the acidity of the vitamin C that caused this instant reaction with my skin. So, right after I applied it, within a half an hour, my skin started to feel quite tight, almost like I didn't have enough moisture on my skin. So that led me to apply more moisturizer on my skin. And then again, within an hour or so, I felt very tight, especially around my mouth. And then I started to get this warming sensation with my skin."
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"I love this brand and I will still continue to use this brand. Ascorbic acid has a lower pH. It's more acidic. And so, this is going to create that cell turnover and it works a little bit quicker. With vitamin C derivatives, they have a higher pH around five or six. The same pH is what your skin is naturally, which is why it tends to be more gentle, but with derivatives, they can take a little bit longer to work as well. In my opinion, and from my experience, it really is just the acidity of the vitamin C that caused this instant reaction with my skin. So, right after I applied it, within a half an hour, my skin started to feel quite tight, almost like I didn't have enough moisture on my skin. So that led me to apply more moisturizer on my skin. And then again, within an hour or so, I felt very tight, especially around my mouth. And then I started to get this warming sensation with my skin."
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"The 10% is amazing. I've used it many times over the years and it's also really effective. It does give that brighter complexion. This formula is truly on point. It's very thin and lightweight, it's like water, your skin absorbs it really nicely, and it's definitely one of my favorite vitamin C formulations on the market."
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"I do quite enjoy the Timeless vitamin C. They have a 20% and a 10%. My go-to vitamin C is the pure form ascorbic acid. I love the Timeless vitamin C. It has a super vitamin E in here which actually has more antioxidant properties to it and there is hyaluronic acid. I keep this in the fridge and it's lovely."
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"The Timeless vitamin C is one of the best on the market, especially from what I have used, and you just can't go wrong with this brand. It's really affordable with different size options. If you don't want to use the 20% strength, they have a 10% and it's a little bit less potent but at the end of the day it still works really well and you still get great results. It really does brighten the heck out of your skin. If you're looking for a good vitamin C serum, honestly the Timeless brand is worth looking into."
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"Timeless has a wonderful 10% option if you want to use something that isn't as strong. It has that milky consistency to it and I love pairing coenzyme Q10 with vitamin C specifically ascorbic acid. I generally put the vitamin C serum on first then this afterwards then my moisturizer and then my sunscreen."
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