Comments on: Know Your Ingredients: Retinyl Palmitate (Vitamin A Palmitate)

By: beautifulwithbrains

beautifulwithbrains — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 19:29:46 +0000

Rose, I live in Italy and here you can buy Vitamin E capsules in most stores that sell natural beauty products and supplements and sometimes in pharmacies too. Erbamea and Biovea are just a couple of the brands I used in the past. Hope this helps.

By: rose

rose — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 09:42:01 +0000

i live in the uk.
clearly you can buy Vit A capsules over the counter in the US.
Do you have a brand name i can check out, im paying a lot of money for a very small amount of Vit A at the moment. would like to cut the price down, capsules might be cheaper.

By: beautifulwithbrains

beautifulwithbrains — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 21:11:32 +0000

Connie, I personally don’t like to use too much Vitamin A because large doses when applied on the skin can be irritating, at least at first as your skin needs to get used to it. That’s why I use so little. You could use more if you want to (and if you don’t experience any negative reactions) but I don’t think a too large doses is necessary when topically applied. 10.000 is the recommended oral supplement amount though.

By: connie

connie — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 05:36:57 +0000

Thanks but excuse me if I’m being dumb the capsules I have are at the strength of 10 000iu per capsule. What you have mentioned seems so much less. I am not familiar with these iu measurements or what they are please help??? Thanks again.

By: beautifulwithbrains

beautifulwithbrains — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 21:11:59 +0000

Connie, yes, you can use directly on the face.

By: beautifulwithbrains

beautifulwithbrains — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 21:10:36 +0000

Connie, when I make a jar of moisturizer (about 50ml), I use 1250iu vitamin A capsule. Hope this helps.

By: connie

connie — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 05:26:34 +0000

Oh P.s Can the capsule oil be put directly on to the face? Ta. connie

By: connie

connie — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 05:25:07 +0000

Hi there I make my own moisturiser so am wondering how many vitamin A 10 000IU
capsules should I add per grams of moisturiser? Thanks Connie.