MEDYSKIN Vitamin C Beauty Oil

Packaging/Pricing:

I've picked this product at TJMaxx for ~5$. The retail price on the official website is 48$ for 30ml (1fl.oz). You can also find it from various online retailers for ~30$.

The product comes in a see-through glass bottle. Since it is a vitamin C serum that is one of the worst choices for packaging, since antioxidants will not be able to stay stable when exposed to the sun light. For the price, I would expect to have at least a tinted glass bottle. Also the box features a dropper bottle, but in reality it is a pump bottle. I didn't like the packaging. It leaks all over the place when you tip the bottle. I've lost about 30% of content due to that.

Ingredients:

Refined Coconut Oil, Apricot Kernel Oil, Avocado Oil, Squalane, Sunflower Seed Oil, Tetrahexyldecyl Ascorbate (Vit C), Rose Hip Oil, Rosemary Oil, Beta Carotene, Fragrance.

Excellent (very beneficial ingredients, proven research)

Good (mostly beneficial ingredients, not extensive research available or just not quite outstanding properties)

OK (mostly thickeners, emulsifiers, mild preservatives, pH adjusters, all that is necessary formulation wise, but not a skincare per se) 
Bad (anything that shouldn't be in skincare, irritants and fragrance)

Ingredients Discussion:

This product features a blend of five non-fragrant plant oils (coconut, apricot, avocado, sunflower and rose hip). I usually prefer a blend to a single oil, because it provides skin with wider array of nutrients, since different oils have slightly different composition. Natural oils do have some amount of antioxidants present, however you never know how much was left after processing, so I would not rely too much on that. 

This Medyskin beauty oil includes a well researched stable form of oil soluble vitamin C. However, I was trying to keep bottle away from the sun at all times when using this product (e.g. kept bottle in the box in the bathroom), because the glass is see-through. So unless you take extra precaution, you can end up with just a basic oil blend, instead of antioxidant treatment.

There is also beta carotene added to the formula. It is a precursor of vitamin A, that skin can convert to retinol. However, research shows that beta carotene has to be present in a relatively high concentration to have the same effect as topical retinol. Since here it is second to last ingredient, I would assume the concentration is negligible.

Finally,  this oil also has two irritating fragrant components (rosemary oil and "fragrance"). I would be a bit cautious of this product if you have sensitive skin. It didn't have much scent fortunately (barely detectable citrus scent), so this amount of fragrance is passable. However, there are other fragrance free options on the market.

Verdict:

It is a good product, even though it has a bit of a fragrance. However, the packaging is bad. It is see-through (and you have to take extra step to keep ingredients safe) and it leaks (you have to make sure the bottle is upright ALL the time).

This beauty oil is definitely not worth 48$, but if you can find it for ~5-15$ it can be worth checking out.

4 out of 5.