Stem cells regenerate slowly, and skin health decreases over time, inducing the typical signs of aging. Plant stem cells have proven effective in regenerating skin cells.
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.
NatureCells Antiaging is a liposomal botanical complex, a nature's bounty for anti-aging applications.
NatureCells Hydragenesis is a liposomal botanical complex that provides long-lasting hydration for skin care applications.
Nelumbium Speciosum (or Nelumbo Nucifera) is also known as sacred lotus, Indian lotus, or sacred Water-lily. From ancient times lotus has been a divine symbol in Hindu tradition, associated with creation, mythology, and the gods Vishnu, Brahma, and Lakshmi.
Nikkolipid 81S® is a multifunctional lipid complex derived from natural raw materials and composed mainly of batyl alcohol, refined soy lecithin, stearic acid, and caprylic/capric triglycerides, with emulsifying, anti-inflammatory and moisturizing properties.
NosilFix is a technology for hair that creates an extremely pleasant, lightweight, invisible shield on the hair. It can help improve not only the immediate look and feel of hair but, as an active delivery system, also help absorb hair-nurturing ingredients and improve it with time.
The ability to promote a good tan remains a cosmetic staple regardless of the growing data that exposure of the skin to sunlight is detrimental. A good tan continues to be associated with health and leisure.
Olive Milk is a complex ingredient, a milky liquid with a typical odor, an O/A iperfluid emulsion ( < 100 mPa.s) containing about 30% of the dispersion phase obtained with a particular methodology.
Ovaliss™ is a complex ingredient that visibly reduces the double chin and reshapes the facial contours. To fight against signs of aging and obesity touching people living in developed countries, Sederma launched an innovative product Ovaliss™ that counteracts the appearance of a double chin.
What is the similarity between skin and muscles? Both are involved in energy production. Energy production is most efficient under aerobic conditions, thus, in order to obtain optimal energy production both muscles and skin cells must be correctly supplied with oxygen.
Microcirculation is essential to ensure oxygenation, nutrition, and tissue perfusion, interfering with the appearance of the skin.
Matrikines are skin messenger peptides that instruct skin cells to reorganize and re-assemble the extracellular matrix. There are a lot of synthetic matricaines usually in the form of lipo-peptides have been used in cosmetics.
Phytosonic™ is a complex herbal anti-cellulite ingredient from Sederma designed to combat fatty tissue hypertrophy by acting on pre-adipocytes and mature adipocytes.
Cellulite frequently affects women and occurs in particular areas of the body, such as hips, thighs, and abdomen, and is characterized by an uneven skin surface, popularly known as the "orange peel" appearance.
Dervied from fruit tree leaves, guards against the aging process to dramatically lighten and brighten skin.
Redulite™ is a complex ingredient, a viscous yellowish transparent gel with a characteristic odor. It has the following composition elderberry extract, glyceryl polyacrylate, and ethoxydiglycol.
Regen Plus is a botanical complex with hydration and anti-wrinkle effects for mature skin. It results from advanced encapsulation and the technology of combined molecular covers and can be applied to already proven efficacious active ingredients (isoflavones).
Renovage™ made to extend the skin's youth span and works on the origin of youth and targets the cell actors which guarantee lifespan and youth. The age that we attribute to a face is a global assessment unconsciously based on several visual signs that are additive.
The scalp undergoes constant renewal, shedding dead skin cells as flakes. Yet, these flakes only become visible if many dead skin cells clump together. The most common cause of dandruff is the skin fungus Pityrosporum ovale.
Sebuless™ is an inovative botanical complex derived from Lilac (Syringa Vulgaris) cell culture that reduces sebum production by acting directly on secreting cells sebocytes.
A successful marriage between palmitoyl-proline and water lily flower extract reaches a unique lightening and soothing effect: thanks to action towards both modulation of inflammation mediators and a reduction of gene expression of tyrosinase (a key enzyme of pigmentation).
Si-Matrix is a balanced combination of micro-silica in a delivery system as molecular film. It re-structures damaged tissues, giving a controlled tensor effect where silica is one of the key ingredients for skin regeneration and repair.
Skin Tightener ST™ is a botanical complex ingredient for immediate tightening, lifting, and firming effects. It helps promote firmness and elasticity.
Sederma has demonstrated that Subliskin™'s oligosaccharides have the property to increase hyaluronic acid and its receptor CD44 synthesis but also elastin and laminin-5 synthesis, hence the word "glycokines" (a natural sugar sequence mimicking structurally and functionally oligosaccharide sequence found in the skin).
Superox-C has an extraordinarily strong anti-oxidant effect and simultaneously supports moisturisation and moisture retention, collagen and elastin synthesis and offers a very potent boost of the skin‘s own defences.
A synergistic combination of anti-irritants that supports soothing, recovery, calming, and redness reducing for sensitive skin. Extremely effective skin barrier intensification complex mimicking the three key elements of the barrier lipids, by CeramideBio, stearic acid, and phytosterols.
TEGO® Care CE 40 is a vegetable-based cationic emulsifier complex for oil-in-water formulations including creams and lotions. It is a blend of a powerful emulsifier (Palmitamidopropyltrimonium Chloride) and a stabilizer (Cetearyl Alcohol) forming an easy-to-use flake.
Our lifestyle today is made of very long days, and we must keep a perfect image during many hours. Tightening products procure in just one application, to erase the signs of fatigue and restore the skin's full splendor and vitality.
TPF Wheat Complex is a unique hydrating complex offering a combination of moisture-balancing wheat protein and film-forming properties that work synergistically to give hair better body control to improve the stress relaxation and elasticity of the hair.
Maintaining skin hydration goes far beyond vanity. Only hydrated skin efficiently performs its protective barrier function, maintaining elasticity, flexibility, and softness and protecting it against the loss of epidermal water, external aggressions, microorganisms, and other pathologies.