882-7000 to make an appointment with a University of Missouri Health Sciences Center physician. I've read a lot lately about the benefits of vitamin C to help lessen wrinkles, and there are many products on the market that have vitamin C in them. Although at first that may seem like a logical leap, the acidity of oranges probably would not feel good on your skin, nor is the vitamin C in a concentrated formula that would affect the skin layers. Of course, as you are no doubt aware, how wrinkled your skin becomes depends largely on how much sun you are exposed to in your lifetime. Compare the back of your hand with the underside of your upper arm, an area that gets little sun, and you can see what the sun does to skin.
Smoking also contributes to facial wrinkling.
Daily use of sunscreens along with a healthy diet and lifestyle are your best defenses. But if you already have wrinkles, vitamin C is a powerful anti-oxidant that may reduce small wrinkles by speeding up cellular renewal. It helps repair and improve the clarity of the skin. The down side is, it must be used long-term for lasting effects and most vitamin C preparations are expensive. Vitamins E and A also have been promoted as useful for this purpose.