Topical vitamin D?

[Xarata]

When summer hits, I spend a lot of time outside. All that vitamin D means my skin looks incredible. However, as the weather gets colder and I spend less and less time outside, my skin starts to look worse and worse, by winter's peak I look terrible- and not just because i'm pale. Would love a gentle winter serum/moisturizer with vitamin d. The ones I use are rose serum and awesome sauce and I've been using shea and aloe lotion as a moisturizer, but any gentle one is good too.

[kchalbi]

My skin is the same way! I always take extra vit D in the winter, but I'd love it in a serum too!

[karen]

You might be onto something here...I've never actually seen it for sale as an ingredient. There's a cream available for people with psoraisis, and a super expensive serum.

I'll plonk around with it and see if it does anything for my skin. I'm getting that winter dull too.

[cristy_amk]

LOL I'm jumping on the bandwagon here! My skin is already looking rough

[ludmila]

There are in fact several reasons for our skin to look worse in the winter (e.g. low humidity, winds, central heating, hot baths/showers, lower liquid consumption, limited physical activity, dietary changes...), vitamin D deficiency may be just one of the many contributors, considering that UV radiation can still reach us in a cloudy day and moreover, our body can accumulate and store vitamin D overtime...
Still, a concentrated vitamin D serum sounds good, but I would rather use it in the summer along with some antioxidants. I've seen a few moisturisers with vitamin D, it's actually more popular in sunscreens, but I'm not sure about its concentration in those creams and I wonder if it's enough to do any good