The honeybee produces an organic skincare ingredient, beeswax, which contains a mixture of fatty acids and esters. It is used in a range of organic skincare products as a thickener and emulsifier.
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.Behentrimonium Dimethicone PEG-8 Phthalate is a complex of a fatty quaternary compound and a carboxy silicone. It is an off-white to slightly yellowish solid wax with a mild odor.
Bellis Perennis Flower Extract is derived from Daisy flowers and has skin-brightening properties. Incorporated in skincare products, it fights against age spots, pigmentation disorders, and freckles and exhibits general skin-lightening activity.
Benzyl Laurate is an ester of Benzyl alcohol and Lauric acid, a clear yellow liquid. It is soluble in mineral oil, Jojoba oil, Almond oil, isopropyl myristate, Cyclomethicone, PPG10 Butanediol, and SD Alcohol 40B.
Benzyl Nicotinate (3-pyridine carboxylic acid phenylmethyl ester) is an ester of Niacin (nicotinic acid or Vitamin B3) with benzyl alcohol, a member of the nicotinate family of compounds with a rubefacient action on the skin.
Bertholletia Excelsa Seed Oil PEG-8 Esters is a complex ester based on Brazil Nut oil. It is known under the trade name Hydramazon Excelsa.
This carotenoid is found primarily in carrots and is used to give personal care products a yellow to orange-red color. The body converts beta-carotene into vitamin A.
It is a valued ingredient in skin care preparations thanks to many beneficial effects on the skin, including anti-aging, immunomodulatory, antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, wound healing, and antioxidant action.
A amino acid derived from beets that increases hydration and offers skin protection. Improves mitochondrial activity and balances moisture, reduces skin irritation.
The American Indians used birch tea made from Betula Alba leaves to help relieve headaches and found that poultices of boiled bark helped to heal burns, wounds, and bruises.
Bifida Ferment Lysate is a lysate (cytoplasm contents, cell wall fractions, and metabolites) of probiotic bifidobacteria with protective functions, disintegrated in a bioactive nutrient that brings a healthy balance to the skin.
Bioflavonoids have been used to maintain normal blood vessel conditions by decreasing capillary fragility (homeostatic). This fragility may result in the appearance of fine red lines in the skin, particularly around the nose.
Biosaccharide Gum-1 is an anionic biotechnological polysaccharide obtained by a bacterial fermentation process and is accepted for organic cosmetics. It is a moisturizing, soothing, anti-aging, and hair-sheathing cosmetic active ingredient providing a soft touch to formulations.
Our organism is controlled by a communication network that maintains physiological balance. This communication is a dynamic relationship maintained between a transmitter and a receiver through messages carried from a specific channel.
Biotin (Vitamin B7) rescues the skin. How? Let’s see. If you do not use it for a while your skin looks dull, it becomes dry, inflammation and wrinkles appear on it, the face ages faster.
Vitamin B Complex is a combination or mixture of eight essential vitamins that work together to bolster metabolism, maintain healthy skin and muscle tone, enhance immune and nervous system function, and promote cell growth and division - including that of the red blood cells.
Bis-PEG-20 Dimethicone is a white, waxy, solid, water-soluble silicone wax designed to boost foam and soften in personal care formulations. It provides a significant foam boost in shampoo and body wash formulations.
Bisabolol substance comes from the chamomile flower, is antiphlogistic (antiinflammatory), disinfects, soothes. It helps reduce irritation and sensitivity associated with oily skin breakouts.
Bishydroxyethyl Biscetyl Malonamide is structurally close to natural ceramides and mimics their behavior but is more easily incorporated into cosmetics formulations.
Bitter ginger (Wild ginger or Zingiber Zerumbet) is a tropical plant from the ginger family that grows up to 3.9 ft tall. Its extract is a natural anti-aging ingredient for body care applications, especially for legs.
The seeds of the Urucum tree (Bixa Orellana) are known for their ability to protect the skin from free radical damage. Traditionally used to treat wounds and burns due to its anti-inflammatory properties, Bixa Orellana Seed Extract is ideal for use in cosmetics because of these same abiliti
Cimicifuga racemosa is my herb of choice for PMS, pre-menopausal and menopausal conditions, also in breast enlargement formulas thanks to its estrogenic action.
It inhibits Matrix metalloproteinase-1 (MMP1) enzyme release, which is responsible for collagen destruction, and lessens elastase enzyme activity responsible for elastin destruction.
Intensely hydrates sensitive skin and hair, refreshes, invigorates and prevents dehydration.
It is known to help in weight loss and stimulate fat metabolism. Bladderwrack Extract also has a detoxifying effect.
Blood orange extract is a perfect ingredient for skin care applications thanks to its high content of beta-carotene; vitamins C and B; organic acids, the most abundant of which are of the nature of alpha-hydroxy acids (AHAs); flavonoids.
Blue Tansy (Tanacetum Annuum) is a member of the daisy family and was first prized by the Greeks for its variety of medicinal properties. It is also known as Moroccan Blue Chamomile or Blue Chamomile.
BoNT-L peptide (Palmitoyl Hexapeptide-19) is a synthetic lipo-peptide with a Botox-like effect and without the side effects of invasive treatment. In comparison with Botox, it has several advantages such as:
Borage oil is derivative from the seeds of the Borage (Borago Officinalis). It's the richest (around 24%) known natural source of gamma-linolenic acid (GLA), which has anti-inflammatory and anti-thrombotic properties.
In the early part of the 19th century, the young tops of Borage (Borago Officinalis) were sometimes boiled as a pot- herb and were consumed as a refreshing summer drink.