A question: What kind of functional ingredients will be in the repair cosmetics?

——I don't know if your answer will include the three veterans of "vitamin A, vitamin C, and E". No problem, these three ingredients are indeed too classic, high quality and low price, good curative effect, equivalent to salt, sweet and sour in cooking. But we can't always stick to these three things, right? There are many excellent ingredients in the Huahua world, which can complement each other. The names of these ingredients, you may have seen them in the products of major groups, but you don't know how they work. Today we will pick up 6 kinds from the vast sea and talk about them.

I think you must have heard the moving story of "Scientists found that the workers who brushed ginseng have white and tender hands, and were inspired to work hard to combine ginseng and skin care products". The roots, stems, leaves, and fruits of ginseng, as well as other ginseng plants (such as Panax notoginseng and American ginseng), contain ginsenosides and other active substances; The extracts of various plants in this genus have both commonalities and differences.

Panax notoginseng/ginseng extract

Ginsenosides have antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects by inhibiting the activity of oxygen free radicals and metalloproteinases [1]. The concept of "micro-inflammation" is very popular recently, to the effect that adverse factors such as environmental stress, poor work and rest, sunlight exposure, etc., will bring about tiny, invisible inflammations in the skin, and they will lead to molecular and cellular levels of physiology. Changes; these tiny changes pile up and eventually lead to visible changes in the skin, from darkening and blemishes to loose wrinkles. One of the means of repairing the skin is to use anti-inflammatory ingredients to relieve micro-inflammation of the skin.

Ginsenosides have the effect of promoting new blood vessels in the burned area [2], so there are corresponding skin care patents that it can enhance skin blood flow, improve skin nutrition, and make skin more rosy and lovely. There are also reports of its whitening and sebum-inhibiting effects.

Licorice Extract

Licorice extract contains a variety of active ingredients, such as glycyrrhizic acid, glycyrrhetic acid, and glabridin. These ingredients have similar effects, both whitening and anti-inflammatory, with anti-inflammatory being the top priority. Simply put, almost any bad change in the skin, including but not limited to sensitivity, tingling, redness, acne red to clear, aging skin…

Sea Fennel Extract

Like most plant extracts, sea fennel extract also has antibacterial effects. The essential oil extracted from sea fennel leaves can be used as an antioxidant in the food industry. In addition, small-scale experimental results show that the essence containing 0.1% sea fennel stem cell extract can help the skin barrier repair and reduce water loss.

Turmeric Extract

"Turmeric" is not the "ginger" we usually eat. As the name suggests, turmeric has a very rich yellow color, and without it there would be no gooey yellow Indian curry. Turmeric has always been associated with "healing" in traditional Indian culture. In the movie "Wrestle, Dad", turmeric is contained in the liquid poured when preparing the mud for the wrestlers.

Modern research proves that curcumin in turmeric does have powerful powers. When taken orally, its anti-inflammatory effect is stronger than that of the common non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug ibuprofen [4]. It can also exert anti-inflammatory and antioxidant effects when used externally; in mouse experiments, curcumin successfully reduced skin damage after UVB irradiation, including increased melanin, decreased skin elasticity, thickened skin, and reduced blood vessels in the skin. Both diameter and length have increased [5] - we all know that skin photoaging over time is more severe than natural aging, and this experiment shows that curcumin has the potential to reduce photoaging.

Mangosteen Extract

What is a "flipper"? Does it sound more familiar if you say "mangosteen extract"? Mangosteen extract contains α-mangostin, β-mangostin, γ-mangostin and so on. In addition to being antioxidant and anti-inflammatory, three mangostins, especially α-mangostin, can inhibit gelatinase activity in the skin [3]. Gelatinase will degrade gelatin, and when gelatin is degraded, skin elasticity will decrease.

white chia seed oil

This is the oil squeezed from the seeds of white chihuahua. Like other vegetable oils, it also plays an important role in moisturizing and helping to repair the skin barrier in skin care products. However, it has appeared more and more frequently in major high-end skin care products in recent years, which must be its own uniqueness. For example, refined white chia seed oil has no taste (unlike sesame oil), and is not greasy (look at coconut oil sideways). Although it contains more than 98% long-chain unsaturated fatty acids, it is not easy to oxidize and deteriorate.