Ingredient lists aren’t the simplest to learn, I hear you. I’m somebody who does it for a residing—and definitely I nonetheless get stumped once I come throughout a brand new energetic ingredient (or much more complicated, one in every of its distinctive chemical types). And coenzyme Q10 falls in that umbrella of complicated phrases.
The antioxidant is changing into fairly the buzzy complement and topical ingredient because of it’s skills to look after the pores and skin.* And regardless of its recognition (or, maybe due to its recognition) many individuals have a number of questions on it. One such query has to do with the varied types of the coenzyme.
See, most substances have a number of types. These numerous types have totally different potencies, bioactivity, features, and qualities. For instance: Vitamin C is a highly regarded antioxidant in skincare topicals and dietary supplements, however on the ingredient label or vitamin panel you may even see one thing like ascorbic acid, L-ascorbic acid, sodium ascorbyl phosphate, ascorbyl palmitate, retinyl ascorbate, tetrahexyldecyl ascorbate, and magnesium ascorbyl phosphate.
Such is the case for CoQ10: its two distinctive varieties are ubiquinol and ubiquinone. Right here, we’re diving into the previous.
