This combination of bioflavonoids offers excellent skin supporting benefits by aiding in the maintenance of collagen integrity pycnogenol has been shown to be 50 times more effective than vitamin e and 20 times more active than vitamin c as a free radical scavenger grape seed extract offers similar properties to pycnogenol to enhance the formula viridian chooses to use pycnogenol which is a patented form of pine bark extract to guarantee purity