A.P.S™ (Anti-pollution system) is a complex ingredient combining natural extracts, vitamins, and nourishing substances for urban daily protective skincare. It protects the skin against environmental stress and indoor and outdoor pollution.
Botanical complexes
Herbal medicine and skincare can be effective, natural alternatives for treating a wide range of skin conditions. However, certain oils, extracts, and derivatives of medicinal plants have advanced effects when applied together.
Many phytochemicals in nature resemble chemical preservative compounds in structure and are all-natural alternatives. These classes of phytochemicals include essential oils containing eugenol, thymol, carvacrol, terpenoids, etc. When combined into complexes, some of these extracts are found to be effective against many spoilage microorganisms. In addition, combinations of these extracts are comparable in efficacy to conventionally used preservatives like parabens.
This section is for complex botanical ingredients containing multiple plant derivatives working synergically to nourish, heal, or protect skin most naturally. Most of the complexes improve effectiveness and potentiate action, enhancing each ingredient's significance.
Active Powders are an innovative technology enabling the incorporation of water-soluble active ingredients in anhydrous formulations for color cosmetics, to broaden the range of care claims for treatment color cosmetics.
Actiwhite™ is a botanical complex with a skin-lightening effect. It decreases PMEL17 gene expression responsible for pre-melanosome protein production and melanosome maturation. It also inhibits tyrosinase a crucial enzyme involved in the melanin production process.
Men’s skin is naturally thicker and more resilient than women’s skin, but it is also treated more roughly. Men often use products that are not completely suited to men’s skin and are exposed to UV- radiation during outdoor activities.
Aqualance™ has been developed to support normal cell osmoprotectant strategy and ensure optimal water balance in the skin. An estuary is a meeting point between salt water and fresh water, a natural crossroads of a huge variety of fauna and flora beings.
Cellulite is a common term used to describe the accumulation of fat, fluids, and toxins that have been trapped deep in the skin below the epidermal layer, creating a waffled or "orange peel" appearance to the skin.
Capislow™ is a botanical complex ingredient that diminishes the appearance of unwanted hair. It is used as a hair growth retardant based on plant actives.
Citystem™ an active ingredient designed to fight against visible and invisible pollution damage to the skin. This botanical complex provides a defense against pollution’s effects on the skin, with scientifically proven results including:
Crodasol™ AC is a vegetable-based solubilizer complex specifically designed for personal care formulas. It offers formulators cost and performance benefits compared with traditional solubilizers.
Cytobiol™ Iris A is a botanical-vitamin-mineral complex with synergistic action of ingredients.
In order to respond to the new cultural paradigms which associate modernness, performance, and seduction with a firm, slim and glabrous body, cosmetology needs to offer technologically high-performance solutions: the reduction in hairiness is one of the expectations of the new generations who des
Engineers first worked on a combination of several plant waxes and then studied which sensory characteristics each wax could bring to the final texture or what type of chemical modifications could help create the desired texture.
Sometimes it only takes a meeting of the eyes, the exchange of emotion, for a woman to be transformed. It is the magic of love at first sight: the heart swells, the eyes glitter, and color rises to the cheeks... Women are never as resplendent as when they are in love.
The use of natural plant extracts “nature’s healing power” in hair care products fulfills the requirements of a wide spectrum of consumers: the ecology movement has awakened in many people, the desire for a natural lifestyle.
"Cocooning"... The word in itself is already a trend. Pampering oneself, retreating into a world of comfort and protection: the solution to our hectic way of life.