People stay away from acids if they can help it. Yet some acids are very friendly. Ascorbic acid, lipoic acid and folic acid are three acids that provide great benefits to the human body. Ascorbic acid is, of course, vitamin C. Lipoic acid is also known as thioctic or alpha lipoic acid. Folic acid is sometimes referred to as folate.
Antioxidants are such old news that people have drifted away from the research.
Yet, over 1000 articles on ascorbic acid alone were published last year. And although folic acid has been around a long time, it's suddenly in the lime light for its role in reducing homocysteine, a major risk factor for heart attack and stroke. When plastic surgeons in Indiana wanted to find out if putting ascorbic acid on skin improves wrinkles, texture and firmness, they turned to a computer for help. Using a topical vitamin C product on one side of the face, they were able to prove that sun-damaged skin improves when the vitamin is used everyday. Sunlight depletes vitamin C, and people with skin cancer have sub-normal amounts of the vitamin in their skin.