Our Pro-Sun D Serum
With Provitamin D
To boost your Vitamin D production when you’re in the sun
Most people don’t get enough sun. Nearly 70% of the US population is
Vitamin D deficient by WHO standards, as is 50% of Europe. The amount of Provitamin D in our skin lipids also decreases as we age, resulting in lower Vitamin D production.5 This leads to thin, unhealthy skin.
Pro-Sun D contains Provitamin D to help your skin to improve its Vitamin D synthesis even with low sun exposure. Vitamin D dramatically improves skin health by calming inflammation in the skin, boosting barrier function, and controlling skin thickness. It also boosts your skin’s natural defences by stimulating antimicrobial peptide (AMP) production.
Your skin secretes Provitamin D (7-dehydrocholesterol or 7-DHC) as part of sebum, your natural skin oil. The UVB rays in sunlight photosynthesise this compound to Previtamin D, which then isomerises (a process that is
facilitated by our body heat) to Vitamin D to be absorbed into skin and into
the bloodstream.
Is this product safe for pregnant individuals?
Yes, it is safe.
How should you use Pro-Sun D?
You can do your complete skincare routine – cleanse, mist, serum, moisturiser, etc., and we recommend using it where you would typically use your serum. It can either be used as a replacement to your daily serum, or you can use it alongside your daily serum.
The serum needs to be applied in the morning or any time before your sun, and would ideally be activated for 5 to 15 minutes in direct sun without any make-up or sunscreen. It would be best to delay the application of foundation and sunscreen until after your sun spa to enhance Vitamin D synthesis. However, if the use of
sunscreen or foundation is unavoidable, we still recommend applying the Pro-Sun D serum underneath them, as it will still work to produce more vitamin D than if you didn’t use it.
Even without activation, the Provitamin D in the Pro-Sun D Serum
provides skin with improved resilience to stressors by increasing the production of heat shock proteins
Should the product be applied to a bare skin, or can consumers have serums and moisturisers on the skin?
Applying other leave-on products (apart from sunscreen and make-up) won’t affect the function of the Pro-Sun D Serum.
How do we use the serum with other Esse products?
The Pro-Sun D Serum can easily be incorporated into any skincare routine either as a stand-alone serum, or in combination with other Esse serums. You can layer them before applying your moisturiser.
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