Elaeis Guineensis Butter (Palm Butter) is a lipid-active ingredient with anti-aging and antioxidant properties extracted from the red-yellow mesocarp of the Elaeis Guinensis fruit. It contains 45/50% oil and has a consistency like soft butter at room temperature.
Elaeis Guineensis butter may be used in the lipidic phase of an emulsion or of a lipo gel acting both as vegetal triglycerides and as a consistency factor (it can substitute the whole oil phase of an emulsion). Moreover, it makes the skin soft and acts as an antioxidant in that it is rich in tocopherols and tocotrienols delivered to the skin.
Elaeis Guineensis butter contains triglycerides with saturated fatty acids which allow the cream to obtain the consistency required without having to go through a process of hydrogenation and stabilizes oxidation. Triglycerides at the melting point, with a relatively low presence of solid lipids at a temperature of 10 C°, are of great advantage when formulating products with a wide range of consistencies.
It contains a high percentage of linoleic acid, which is an essential fatty acid precursor of a long chain of unsaturated fatty acids that are very important for the health and integrity of the skin. Moreover, Elaeis Guineensis butter contains tocopherols, tocotrienols, sterols, and polar lipids.Non-triglyceride fraction
Functional activity of primary non-triglyceride compounds in Elaeis Guineensis Butter include:
Carotenoids
Carotenoids are powerful antioxidants; particularly for the presence of Beta carotene which is the most powerful natural antioxidant active on the skin.
Tocopherol and Tocotrienol
Palm Butter, unlike other vegetal oils, has plenty of tocotrienols which have a more powerful anti-oxidant effect than tocopherols. The high concentration of Tocotrienols is, in fact, sufficient enough to guarantee the stability of the oily fraction and a good biological activity as a "radical scavenger".
Sterols
There is a high concentration of Squalene which is knowingly very active in the formation and in the maintenance of the hydrolipidic film on skin's upper layers. Squalene is, in fact, a primary ingredient in the composition of the sebaceous gland secretion and of the lipid fraction in the corneous layer where it acts as an antioxidant in synergy with Vitamin E and Beta carotene.Polar lipids
Ceramides and their derivatives are very important in the biochemistry of the epidermis and of the dermis, particularly for the epidermis. Furthermore, they are very important for the good functionality of the upper hydrolipidic layer.
Uses
Palm Butter has already been employed in the formulation of many cosmetic bases: such cosmetic bases have been tested for stability, in-vitro cytotoxicity (100% negative), and skin effectiveness by means of in vivo and in vitro tests. In conclusion, it is possible to assert that the skin treated with Elaeis Guineensis Butter as a cosmetic ingredient improves its wellness and reactivity against external agents, gaining youth, density, and beauty.
Palm Butter provides the skin with an excellently structured hydrolipidic layer and with an improved antioxidant defensive system, in that it is better irrorated from the dermic area. The use of Elaeis Guineensis Butter as a cosmetic ingredient leaves the skin visibly more tonic, younger, and healthier, due to better cellular activity and dermal biochemistry. It is thus indicated for all kinds of cosmetic and cosmeceutical formulations and for all ages as an active and effective skin defense system.What are the benefits and advantages of Elaeis Guineensis Butter?
Palm butter is a remarkable ingredient that provides unique chemical and physical characteristics. It is in fact one of the best ingredients to employ in cosmetic formulations because:
- It contains triglycerides with saturated fatty acids which allow the cream to obtain the consistency required without having to go through a process of hydrogenation;
- Stabilizes oxidation
- Elaeis Guineensis Butter contains triglycerides at the melting point, with a relatively low presence of solid lipids at a temperature of 10 C°: this is of great advantage when formulating products with a wide range of consistencies
- It contains a high percentage of Linoleic Acid, which is an essential fatty acid precursor of a long chain of unsaturated fatty acids which are very important for the health and the integrity of the skin.
- It has a good and competitive price compared with other mineral, animal, or natural oils.
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