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Babassu

babassuOrbignya oleifera oil

Babassu is a palm that originates from Brazil and the Amazon rainforest. Its fruits resemble small coconuts and are grouped together in bunches. An oil is harvested from these small nuts, which has been used by Brazilian women for centuries to keep skin smooth and velvety. Babassu oil is rich in essential fatty acids (omega-3 and omega-6 in particular), but it also contains a more valuable fraction, referred to as unsaponifiable, which is rich in sterols and tocopherols (vitamin E). Babassu oil is used in cosmetics for its antioxidant, soothing and emollient properties, as well as to lubricate and superfatten. It restores deficiencies in the skin lipid layer, keeping skin soft and smooth whilst protecting it. It regenerates and revitalises the skin.

Camomilla

camomillaChamomilla (matricaria) recutita flower

Camomile (Matricaria recutita L.) is an annual herbaceous plant of the Asteraceae family. Originally from South and East Europe and part of Asia, camomile is today widespread throughout Europe, the Americas and Australia. The flower tips are used, which mainly contain: flavonoids, coumarin and essential oil mainly consisting of bisabolol and chamazulene (which is not in the fresh flower, but rather forms during the distillation process). Thanks to the excellent soothing properties of its extracts, relieving reddening and congestion and their excellent skin tolerability, camomile extract is widely used in dermo-cosmetics, particularly in products for children or for particularly sensitive skin. Popular tradition has always used camomile infusions as a wash to relieve mucous inflammations, particularly vaginal inflammations, indeed camomile-based products have been available for years, including on an industrial leve.

 

Bacopa Monniera

bacopa-monnieraBacopa monniera extract

Bacopa monniera (Scrophulariaceae family) is a creeping plant that grows in India and in damp, swampy areas. Its use to increase memory capacity dates back to at least three thousand years ago. In actual fact, in the ancient text of Ayurvedic medicine, dating back to around 800 B.C., the characteristics of it are described and scholars and students are recommended to use it to help them memorise the long hymns in the Vedic language. In cosmetics, it is used for its soothing properties to treat irritations. As it is rich in antioxidants, it also protects the skin and hair from free radicals and oxidative attack.

Carrageen

carotaChondrus crispus extract

Carrot Oil is a golden colored extract from carrots with extraordinary skin protection and conditioning benefits derived from the high quantities of oil soluble carotenoids that it contains. Carotenoids are a class of easily assimilated antioxidants, which are present in a wide range of fruits and vegetables but most abundant in carrots. Antioxidants protect human cells from harmful free-radical attack. Free-radicals are stray oxygen molecules that attack healthy cell walls and react with polyunsaturated fats to create a chain reaction of unlimited free-radical regeneration. Free-radicals are produced by a wide range of environmental pollutants, including UVR. If left unchecked by antioxidants, free-radicals damage both the structure and function of cell membranes, resulting in premature aging, cancer and an array of degenerative diseases.

 

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