Squalane prevents loss of moisture and makes your skin soft and supple. In addition, it has an anti-oxidant effect (fights free radicals) and prevents premature skin aging.
Skin conditioning
In skin care, conditioning is everywhere. Consumers have always wanted their skin moisturized, nourished, restored, and protected. Each of these benefits results from the activity we call conditioning.
Here are some of the most intriguing products for providing conditioning effects. They have performance properties offering "extraordinary" conditioning for the skin.
These are specialty ingredients that create memorable, distinctive features in skincare products – the kind of features that will help offerings stand out in the minds of customers.
From phospholipids to quaternaries, the products in the line are based on exceptionally creative chemistry, making them ideal ingredients for today's personal care products. Features such as mildness, substantivity, high performance, and multifunctionality are common in modern skin conditioners.sr-(Wasp Spider Polypeptide-1 Oligopeptide-178) is a single-chain recombinant polypeptide that repeats a part of spider silk protein. It is a white soft powder, a product of fermentation using gene-modified yeast in a nutrient-rich medium.
St. John’s wort extract is widely used to care for irritated and reddened skin against sunburn, erythema, and superficial burns thanks to its anti-inflammatory, healing, softening, soothing, and purifying properties.
Stearalkonium Dimethicone PEG-8 Phthalate is a complex of a fatty quaternary compound and a carboxy silicone. It is a white to off-white solid with a mild odor and a melting point of 75-80°C.
Stearamidopropyl PG-Dimonium Chloride Phosphate is a multi-functional phospholipid and diester phosphatide with multiple long-chain groups derived from pure natural palm oil.
Stearoxymethicone/Dimethicone Copolymer is an off-white wax, an organomodified polysilicon produced by a reaction between polydimethylsiloxane and fatty alcohol.
Stearyl Dimethicone is an alkyl-modified methylpolysiloxane used in skin care and color cosmetic applications. It is a white wax-like substance with a melting point of about 30°C.
Stearyl Glycyrrhetinate is a white or yellowish-white powder, a Glycyrrhizin (or glycyrrhizic acid) ester derivative.
Stearyl/PPG-3 Myristyl Ether Dimer Dilinoleate is a polymeric ester that is a soft, buttery solid with no odor and a low melting point. It provides skin conditioning, emollient action, and cushion to the skin.
Stevia Rebaudiana Leaf Extract is a natural ingredient derived from the leaf and steam of a traditional sweetener. Stevia is a plant native to Paraguay. Stevia (Sweet Honey Leaf) is a perennial herb known for its sweetness.
It can be applied to the skin to carry out a keratolytic action; thus, Subtilisin is an excellent natural substitute for hydroxy acids AHAs, BHAs, and PHAs.
This crystalline disaccharide is obtained from sugar cane, sugar beet, and sorghum and forms the greater part of maple sugar.
Sucrose Polybehenate is a sucrose-derived ester with the traditional properties desired in an emollient. Still, it has outstanding additional benefits, such as film forming, suppleness, and wash and wear resistance.
Sulfur is a yellow crystalline inorganic elemental mineral used in skin and hair care applications for centuries. It is a time-honored ingredient valued for its exfoliating, antimicrobial, and sebum regulating properties.
Almond oil moisturises, alleviates irritations and re-hydrates (particularly in the case of dry and sensitive skin), contains an exceptionally high amount of simple and complex unsaturated fatty acids as well as numerous vitamins.
Swiss apple (Malus Domestica) stem cells is an epidermal growth factor, a superstar ingredient - the winner of the European Cosmetics "Best Active Ingredient" innovation prize in 2008. An innovative technology that protects human skin stem cells using stem cells from rare Swiss apple.
Swiss Cress Sprout (Lepidium Sativum) is an edible herb high in vitamins A, C, and K, with multiple beneficial effects on the skin. In numerous countries, it's used in herbal medicine for antimicrobial, antioxidant, and anti-inflammatory action.
This anti-inflammatory herbal extract accelerates wound healing and stimulates skin cell growth. It is used to soothe skin and to promote healing in minor cuts, burns, and sunburns.
Comfrey (Symphytum Officinale) ointment greatly aids healing for almost any kind of sore or bruise. Many ancient healers employed comfrey in poultices around broken bones to aid in healing.
Syn-Ake - immediate smoothing of the skin, thanks to a remodeled tripeptide, originally derived from snake poison, Waglerin-1, which reduces muscle contractions by up to 80 % (in-vitro results), owing to the disabling of the mnACh-receptor.
Thanks to the stimulating properties and heat sensation of capsaicin and capsaicinoids, wild chili paper has been used to treat arthritis, hair loss, and rheumatic pains for centuries.
Galactomannans from Caesalpinia Spinosa, in particular, have a 3:1 mannose:galactose ratio (Man:Gal) and relatively regular distribution of galactose along the main chain.
TEA-Cocoyl Hydrolyzed Collagen is a fatty acid protein derivative that has been neutralized with triethanolamine improving its foaming and solubility.
TEA-Hydroiodide (triethanolamine hydroiodide) is an iodine compound chemically classified as an amide known for therapeutic action against cellulite.
Combining some of the beneficial actions of both ancestors, TEA-Lactate attracts water molecules thanks to the abundance of hydroxy groups, improving the skin's moisture retention ability, elasticity, and volume.
TEA-Lauroyl Collagen Amino Acids is a clear to slightly hazy, amber liquid with a mild characteristic odor. It is considered a "foaming protein" with conditioning properties. It is a mild and water-soluble foaming surfactant based on collagen amino acids.
Tetrahexyldecyl Ascorbate is the tetra-ester of l-ascorbic acid and 2-hexadecenoic acid, which means that Vitamin C conjugated (esterized) with four lipophilic parts of the 2-hexadecenoic version of isopalmitic acid (an isomer of palmitic acid), which makes it very stable in formulations and give
Tetrapeptide-21 (GEKG-peptide) is a synthetic peptide that repeats a part of a sequence (Gly-Glu-Lys-Gly) of several extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins such as collagens I, II, III, IV, V, elastin, and pro-elastin.
Our skin has an essential regulatory function, which activity depends on the circadian rhythm. It activates cellular defense processes in the skin during daylight and deactivates during night.
Tetrapeptide-30 is a synthetic peptide PKEK (sequence: Pro-Lys-Glu-Lys) that contains a KEK (Lys-Glu-Lys) motif found in antimicrobial polypeptide cathelicidin which can reduce post-inflammatory or UV-induced hyperpigmentation.