10 Best Korean Vitamin C Serums To Try Right Now

Vitamin C serums and creams are among the anti-aging and skin brightening beauty products recommended by dermatologists. Here are the best Korean vitamin serums that can give you an almost instant boost of brightness and glow.

Best brightening vitamin C serums for glowing skin

Vitamin C is a powerful antioxidant that can neutralize free radicals. When used properly, a vitamin C serum can drastically improve your complexion and contribute to overall skin health by reducing inflammation, acne, and hyperpigmentation.

Here, we've selected the top rated Korean facial vitamin C products that will not only give you the best return on your investment, but also take your skincare to the next level.

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Liz K Super First C Serum Pure Vitamin 13% 

Formulated with 13% pure ascorbic acid that helps lighten and even out skin tone, reduce the appearance of dark spots, fine lines, and general pigmentation problems.

The product contains 10 different types of anti-aging ingredients, such as fullerenes (Nobel Prize Winners in Chemistry) and EGF (Nobel Prize Winners in Medicine), shiitake, green tea, aronia and mushrooms. This antioxidant bomb gives your skin that youthful, uninterrupted suppleness back to life.

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Purito Pure Vitamin C Serum

Formulated with 5% vitamin C and 89% hyaluronic acid, along with natural niacinamide and red ginseng extract to help rejuvenate the skin.

With its whitening function, this serum helps to alleviate acne scars, dark circles and freckles and at the same time prevent skin aging.

It contains no added oils or fragrances, which is great for sensitive skin types. It is a vegan-friendly and cruelty-free product.

Urang Vitamin Oil Serum

An age-defying organic serum is rich in vitamins and antioxidants from organic herbal ingredients such as rose hip, jojoba oil that gives vitality and elasticity and stimulates skin regeneration.

This lightweight formula is gentle on skin and absorbs into the skin layer without clogging the pores.

Made from 97.68% organic / 99.9% natural ingredients, including EWG Green Level and NOP certified ingredients, and is vegan and cruelty free.

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Klairs Freshly Juiced Vitamin Drop

This is ideal for anyone looking to dip their toes into the world of vitamin C serum or for sensitive skin types as it is formulated with a lower concentration of vitamin C content but is still effective enough to improve your skin conditions.

Its vitamin C comes in the form of ascorbic acid from grape and yuja extracts as well as a small amount of sodium ascorbyl phosphate (a gentler vitamin C derivative than ascorbic acid). The active ingredients work in conjunction with Centella asiatica to soothe and moisturize the skin while lightening or fading dark spots.

Isntree C-Niacin Toning Ampoule

Vitamin and niacinamide, two powerful lightening ingredients, team up to transform dull, uneven skin into clear, radiant and more evened out skin.

Enriched with high-percentage sea buckthorn fruit extract, which is known to be rich in vitamins and nutrients that promote skin moisture, elasticity and cell regeneration. Aloe vera and hyaluronic acid work wonders to keep your skin comfortable and deeply hydrated.

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Aromatica Super Brite Vita Serum

This pretty pink serum helps brighten, moisturize skin, and adds a natural glow to a dry, lackluster complexion without leaving any greasy or sticky residue.

Made from 93.8% natural and EWG-approved Ingredients, this worry-free and vegan formula can be used on sensitive skin.

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It's Skin Power 10 Formula VC Effector

The 10 Formula Line offers ten different product types, each containing a concentrated active ingredient to alleviate each of your skin problems.

The VC Effector is powered by the antioxidant properties of vitamin C and green tea extracts that helps lighten skin tone and reduce the appearance of freckles, large pores, blemishes, and stubborn acne scars.

Cosrx Triple C Lightning Liquid

The lightening serum is the wonderful result of a collaboration between the cosemtics brand and Charlotte Cho, a co-founder of Soko Glam.

Formulated with a whopping 20.5% pure vitamin C in the form of ascorbic acid and 72% black aronia extract to stabilize the active ingredient. The aqueous formula enables layering and helps your skin to improve its radiance and elasticity. 

Wishtrend Pure Vitamin C Serum 21

Made from 70% vitamin tea water and 21.5% vitamin C to lighten and improve skin tone while smoothing the texture of the skin at the same time.

Vitamin Tree Water is known to contain vitamin E, which enhances the effects of vitamin C on the skin. It's a lightweight, non-sticky formula that's free from parabens, fragrances, and essential oils. 

Goodal Green Tangerine Vitamin C Dark Spot Facial Serum

This is for people with sensitive or easily irritated skin, but who would like to benefit from vitamin C serum. Because this product uses vitamin C, which is obtained from green mandarins, it is much gentler on the skin and less prone to oxidation from UV radiation.

Green mandarins are known to contain ten times more concentrated natural vitamins than normal mandarins. This gel-like serum helps against dark spots, uneven skin tone, dullness and prevents signs of aging without irritating blemished or stressed skin.