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ALOE VERA JUICE

Extraction: Aloe Vera is a perennial plant native to warm climates. The gel contained in its leaves is commonly used in skin treatments due to its many beneficial properties.

Benefits: Known as an astringent, this plant also has moisturizing, regenerating, rejuvenating and antibacterial properties. These properties are perfect for revitalizing skin. It also functions as a deep cleansing agent, opening pores and eliminating toxins that cause the disruptions in the skin’s normal functioning. It also benefits the hair by restoring shine and helping to eliminate excess dandruff and scalp irritations. It is used especially effective for treating skin irritations, blemishes and acne.

Extraction:  water is an element present in most cosmetic products and is the most important raw material. In the cosmetics industry, purified water is used in a process to eliminate any solid particle that may contain water in order to achieve a higher degree of purity and quality.

Benefits: water helps to cleanse the body. Hydrates and improves the effect of other active ingredients, provides softness and delays premature aging of the skin.

Extraction: it is harvested from plants (soy or coconut oil for example) by hydrolysis of fats and by fermenting sugars. Glycerol is found naturally in skin and is considered a self-healing compound.

Benefits: it is one of the many substances in the skin that helps maintain the outer barrier and prevents dryness and peeling. It leaves skin feeling nourished and works to treat acne. It also prevents the accumulation of fat and improves the appearance of hair. Vegetable glycerin can be used as a diluent and as an alcohol substitute when preparing herbal extracts.

Extraction: derived from Coconut Oil and Glycerin, is considered an excellent emollient and skin repairing agent. It is a mix of fatty acids. It is not considered a sensitizing agent.

Benefits: it repairs the surface of the skin and prevents the loss of moisture and also works to thicken skin. They are neutral oils that do not irritate the skin, are easy to apply and are quickly absorbed.

Obtainment: Mango butter is obtained by cold-pressing the mango seeds are inside the fruit bone.

Benefits: It has emollient, softening and nourishing properties. It also has a great oxidative capacity,helping to heal wounds and regenerate the skin. Mango butter is rich in calcium, potassium and vitamins A, B, E and C. It is especially suitable for treating skins damaged by the sun.

Extraction: This vegetable oil is obtained by cold pressing the wheat germ. It is rich in antioxidants (vitamin A, D and E), linoleic, oleic acids, lecithin and enzymes.

Benefits: Very moisturizing, it stimulates cellular regeneration and the eliminates free radicals. It is quickly absorbed into the skin and has excellent firming properties. It provides essential nutrients to the skin, which strengthen its defences.

Obtaining: It is a bio-based ester obtained by esterifying isosorbide (a sugar derivative, usually from sorbitol) with caprylic acid (C8, sourced from vegetable origins according to the supplier). The result is a lightweight emollient, highly stable with excellent sensory performance.

Benefits: It acts as a dry-touch emollient with a ""silk effect"": it enhances the spreadability of the formula, leaves the skin soft and supple, and provides a more satin finish without a greasy feel. It is widely used to give a more cosmetic sensory experience in creams, oils, serums, and especially in sunscreens, where it helps the product spread better and feel less heavy. Additionally, it can function as a carrier for liposoluble ingredients, contributing to a more uniform and pleasant application.

Obtention: Cetyl palmitate is a fatty ester composed as a result of the reaction between cetyl alcohol and palmitic acid. It is obtained naturally from coconut.

Benefits: Used as a conditioner in formulation, due to its oily nature, when applied to the skin it forms a waterproof layer on the skin. It also keeps moisture in the skin.

ALMOND OIL

Extraction: almond oil is composed of monounsaturated fats (healthy fats found in plant foods), oleic acid and linoleic acids (such as Omega 3 and 6). It is almost transparent in color with yellow or golden hues and is almost odourless.

Benefits: It acts as a stimulant for the production of collagen and elastin, providing the tissues with firmness and elasticity. It reduces the appearance of wrinkles and stretchmarks and sweet almond oil is even recommended in various anti-cellulite treatments. Its anti-inflammatory, reparative and healing properties protect the skin’s natural barrier, slows down the ageing process and protects against UV rays  with Vitamin E.

Extraction: This ingredient is obtained from glycerine and stearic acid, an oily acid obtained from vegetable oils.

Benefits: Acts as lubricant in the skin’s Surface, giving a smooth-looking finish. It delays water loss by forming a protective barrier. Moreover, in formulation terms, it helps emulsify by reducing superficial tension in already existing substances.

Extraction: mixture of cetyl and stearic alcohols that are produced naturally in plants.

Benefits: these alcohols have the ability to prevent emulsions from separating between their oily and watery parts. These ingredients are also used to alter the thickness of liquid products, to increase foam capacity or to stabilize them.

Obtaining:  

It is a triglyceride (triester of glycerin) formed by three molecules of heptanoic acid attached to a glycerol backbone. In cosmetics, it is used as a light and very stable oil/ester, valued for its good compatibility in emulsions and oily systems.

Benefits:  

On the skin, it primarily acts as an emollient and ""skin conditioning"": it improves softness and a silky feel, helps with spreadability (allowing the cream/oil to glide and distribute better) and can help reduce water loss through evaporation by forming a light film (supporting surface hydration). Additionally, it is used as a component of the oil phase to optimize texture and, in some formulas, as a vehicle/solvent for liposoluble ingredients, enhancing the sensorial experience without leaving a heavy greasy finish.

Sourcing: of plant origin – from sugar – it’s a mixture of esters of stearic acid and sucrose.

Benefits: It has high biocompatibility with our skin, which is why it has the ability to penetrate. It acts as an emollient and leaves the skin feeling soft.

Extraction: Oily polymer obtained from rapeseed and sunflower oil

Benefits: It creates a film on the hair that cancels out electrical charges with wet hair. It eases styling, gives softness, hydration and shine. Provides an excellent final touch and control of split ends and hair breakage.

Extraction: a vegetable ingredient obtained from coconut.

Benefits: presents a high level of biocompatibility with skin and therefore has the ability to penetrate deep and help skin to repair itself. It acts as an emollient and provides skin with incredible softness.

SESAME OIL

Extraction: sesame oil is obtained by cold pressing its seeds. Sesamum Indicum is a flowering plant of the Pedaliaceae family. It was cultivated in Mesopotamia at least four milleniums ago. Currently it is still popular in Eastern and American countries, in the form of seed, oil or derivatives.

Benefits: it has photoprotective, moisturising, antibacterial and antioxidant properties. It acts on the horny layer, fighting common inflammations of sensitive skins, such as dermatitis. Its photoprotective properties make it ideal for protecting the skin from damage caused by sun.

Extraction: This extract is obtained from the Marigold flower one of the aromatic plants that make up the Asteraceae family.

Benefits: Marigold stimulates the healing action and regenerates damaged skin, as well as producing more collagen (vital for the skin to recover). It is then used to treat scars and skin marks. It has anti-inflammatory, calming, protective properties as well as a high moisturising and nourishing power.

Obtaining: Obtained from a lysate of cotton plant stem cells, rich in plant chromophores and antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and photoprotective polyphenols.

Benefits: Protects the skin microbiota from sun damage, reduces oxidation caused by bacteria after being induced by radiation, and helps preserve the firmness, elasticity and luminosity of the skin.

Obtaining: Obtained by processing a culture of pomegranate plant stem cells. An exceptional source of cell membrane lipids (phospholipids, glycolipids and free fatty acids) and prebiotic polyphenols.

Benefits: The ellagic acid it contains, as a precursor of urolithins, stimulates the production of these solar postbiotics by the skin microbiota, strengthening its defences against UV radiation and contributing to the reduction of photoageing, hyperpigmentation and wrinkles.

Extraction: It is obtained from carob pulp. Fruit of Ceratonia siliqua L., an evergreen tree growning in warm Mediterranean regions with calcareous soils and subspontaneous in dry and stony places not far from the sea.

Benefits: It is a low molecular weight molecule, with a structure close to glucose and which is involved in numerous cellular processes. When inositol comes into contact with a melanocyte, this active stimulates melanin production by increasing the synthesis of the main second messenger of melanin generation, DAG. Stimulating the natural tanning process of the skin.

Extraction: it is the hydrogenated version of squalene. It is an aliphatic triterpene extracted from rice bran, wheat germ and green olives. It has a 100% natural origin.

Benefits: it is a natural component of the skin and a good emollient and sebum restorer. It is used in regenerative treatments for dry skin. It has antioxidant properties and stimulates the immune system.

Extraction: trehalose is a sugar synthesized by plants, bacteria and fungi and is used in personal care products to provide moisture and fragrance.

Benefits: allows the skin to retain moisture and to stay healthy and hydrated. It is renowned as a rehydrating agent for its potent antioxidant properties.

Sourcing: The extract is obtained from Cystoseira seaweed. It’s native to the Mediterranean and mainly inhabits rocky substrates exposed to the sun and waves.

Benefits: It reduces excess melanin production and slows down the maturation of melanosomes to keep them from malfunctioning.

Extraction: natural polysaccharide produced by the fungus Aureobasidium.

Benefit: it is used in cosmetics for its powerful firming and anti-wrinkle properties. Produces a filmogenic effect, softening skin and hair.

Extraction: Lactic acid is obtained from the natural fermentation of sugars and is used to adjust the pH of cosmetic products due to its acidic nature.

Benefits: This ingredient allows cosmetics to be milder for skin and hair.

Extraction: sunflower oil is obtained from Helianthus Annus sunflower seeds.

Benefits: rich in omega-6 and vitamin E, sunflower seed oil is used in the cosmetics industry as skin repairing agent. Prevents skin dehydration and has soothing, nourishing and antibacterial properties. It is perfect for treating all skin types including: dry, normal, oily and acne prone skin.

Extraction: Hydrocolloid compound mainly made of galactans extracted from red algae. These algae grow along the rocky parts of the Atlantic Coast of Europe. In their habitat, these algae are soft and made of cartilage.

Benefits: It has an immediate tightening effect, reduces skin relief and has an immediate and long-lasting moisturising effect thanks to the fact that galactans can retain water and maintain an optimal osmotic value in both algae and skin. In addition, the film-forming effect of these constitutes a shield against dehydration. Galactans have anti-pollution activity by exerting a film-forming effect that forms a physical defense shield against pollutants. They also protect against inflammation and they have antioxidant and free radical scavenging activity.

Extraction: also called oligofructose, it is a form of prebiotic carbohydrate that can be used as a sweetener as an alternative to sugar, since it contains fewer calories.

Benefits: acts in synergy with beet extract to improve the combability of the hair. Prevents frizz and hair breakage.

Extraction: it is obtained from the first cold pressing of olives, from which the unsaponifiable fraction is later separated.

Benefits: one of the most prestigious oils of the Mediterranean not only in gastronomy, but also in cosmetic. This oil has repairing properties, combats skin dryness by including a large amount of natural fatty acids in its composition. It is also rich in vitamins E and K.

Extraction: natural pentylene glycol is obtained from renewable plant-based sources such as sugar cane or maize.

Benefits: commonly used in moisturising creams and lotions for its hydrating properties, which help retain moisture in the skin. It also has antibacterial and preservative effects, helping other active ingredients act better on the skin.

Perfume

Extraction: tocopherol or vitamin E, is naturally found in vegetable fats and oils, cereals, nuts and green and yellow leafy vegetables.

Benefits: it is used in cosmetics for its antioxidant properties and also acts as a skin conditioning agent. Reduces the appearance of stretch marks, helps improve skin tone, moisturizes and helps keep skin firm. For hair care, Holy Basil helps improve the blood circulation in the scalp which stimulates hair growth and helps to condition hair and provide shine.

Extraction: Manufactured by fermentation of glucose syrup derived from the corn renewable raw material.

Benefits: It is a chelating agent that inactivates metal ions to prevent deterioration of cosmetic products

Sourcing: This salt is obtained from citric acid, an acid mainly found in citrus fruits such as orange and lemon.

Benefits: It helps to stabilise the pH of the formulation.

Extraction: it is an organic acid that contains phosphorous present in plants, especially in seeds and fibre.

Benefits: it reduces wrinkles that are extinguished by the underlying layer of the skin. In the same way, it hydrates and accelerates the natural peeling process of the skin, exfoliating deeply. It is also a chelating agent.

Extraction: benzoic acid salt that is naturally found in blueberries, prunes, cinnamon and apple.

Benefits: it is used as a cosmetic preservative to prevent the growth and proliferation of fungi and bacteria in the products. 

Extraction: is the potassium salt of sorbic acid that occurs naturally in mountain berries (Sorbus aucuparia).

Benefits: acts as a preservative, protecting cosmetics from deterioration by preventing or delaying the growth and reproduction of microorganisms. This compound is easily metabolized by the body and produces water and CO2, therefore it is completely harmless.

Extraction: citric acid is a weak organic acid found in fruits such as lemons and oranges. Lemon juice contains approximately 5-8% citric acid.

Benefits: citric acid and its salts: Diammonium, Potassium and Sodium help to preserve cosmetics since they are metal chelating agents. Citric acid and its salts are also added to cosmetics to help regulate the acid / base levels. Functions as a powerful antioxidant and helps to regulate and maintain skin’s hydration and elasticity.

Obtaining: it is obtained from the peel of the fruit of the Citrus aurantium tree, also known as the bitter orange tree, typical of Mediterranean countries.

Benefits: this essential oil is used in perfumes for its fresh and citrusy aroma, and is common in skincare and aromatherapy for its calming and relaxing properties.

Extraction: this essential oil is obtained from the lemon, an acidic citrus fruit high in vitamins, especially in vitamin C.

Benefits: purifies oily skin, opens clogged pores and improves acne-prone skin. Like many scented oils, lemon oil has antioxidant and calming properties which benefit the skin. It also provides benefits on the hair: it increases capillary resistance prevents the scalp from over drying and treats dandruff.

Extraction: monoterpene with floral aroma and a touch of menthol. This natural fragrance, is sweet and smooth. It is produced by a wide variety of plants such as mint, cinnamon, citrus fruits and birch trees.

Benefits: widely used to make fragrances and flavors. It is a main component of many essential oils.

Extraction: it is a monoterpene of natural origin that is found in many citrus fruits such as lemon. It is a colorless liquid with a light, fresh and sweet citrus aroma.

Benefits: widely used to make fragrances and flavors. It is a main component of many essential oils.

Obtaining: Linalyl acetate is a natural ester obtained primarily from essential oils of plants such as lavender, cilantro, bergamot, and clary sage. This compound is responsible for the floral and fresh aromatic properties of many essential oils.

Benefits: This ingredient has calming and relaxing properties, widely used in aromatherapy; it is also soothing and antimicrobial. Its fresh and soft scent makes it a widely used ingredient.

Obtaining: Vanillin is an aromatic organic compound that is responsible for the characteristic flavor and aroma of vanilla. It is naturally found in the pods of the vanilla plant.

Benefits: It is used in the production of fragrances and cosmetic products due to its pleasant aroma and antioxidant properties.

Obtaining: Geranyl acetate is a monoterpenic ester naturally found in various essential oils, especially in citronella, palmarosa, geranium, yuzu, and carrot oils.

Benefits: It stands out for its soft, sweet, and floral fragrance, with fruity notes similar to rose or pear. It is frequently used in perfumery and cosmetics as an aromatic ingredient. In addition to its olfactory role, it has antimicrobial and repellent properties.