Plant extracts & derivatives

Plant extract aka botanical extract-based skin care products are one of the biggest trends in the beauty industry in recent years. Being naturally balanced and dense in active ingredients, botanical extracts are excellent fighters against skin aging and inflammation. 

Oat

Oats (Avena Sativa) and oat products have been eaten since the first century A.D., but the therapeutic uses of oats have only recently been documented.

Waterhyssop

Bacopa Monnieri Extract is an herbal anti-stress agent derived from Waterhyssop. It is based on the Ayurvedic healing system. It is an active ingredient in Sederma's complex called Bacocalmine™.

Hordeum Vulgare
Barley contains a large variety of vitamins, including beta carotene (provitamin A), thiamine (vitamin B1), riboflavin (B2), pyridoxine (B6), cobalamins (B12), pantothenic acid (B5), and folic acid (B₉), which all play an essential role in dermal cells metabolism and necessary for normal functioning.
Daisy flowers

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.

Berry Wax (Rhus verniciflua)
Berry wax smoothens and softens the skin, moisturizes the lips and lends the hair a silky shine. It can guard the skin against harmful environmental factors by leaving an invisible protective layer.
Birch

The American Indians used Birch (Betula Alba) bark and leaves as diuretics, detergents, and antiseptics. The Indians passed this knowledge on to the white frontiersmen, who subsequently used boiled solutions as a mouthwash and scalp tonic.

Birch

Betula Alba Juice is a Birch sap, a natural toning, firming, and moisturizing ingredient particularly suited for men’s products. Considered a longevity elixir, raw birch sap has been harvested in Korea since the 9th Century.

birch

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.

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.

Bisabolol - chamomile flower
Bisabolol substance comes from the chamomile flower, is antiphlogistic (antiinflammatory), disinfects, soothes. It helps reduce irritation and sensitivity associated with oily skin breakouts.
Bitter ginger (Zingiber Zerumbet)
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.
Urucum tree

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

Black Cohosh (Cimicifuga racemosa or Actaea racemosa)
Cimicifuga racemosa is my herb of choice for PMS, pre-menopausal and menopausal conditions, also in breast enlargement formulas thanks to its estrogenic action.
Empetrum nigrum berries
It inhibits Matrix metalloproteinase-1 (MMP1) enzyme release, which is responsible for collagen destruction, and lessens elastase enzyme activity responsible for elastin destruction.
Black oat (Avena strigosa)
Intensely hydrates sensitive skin and hair, refreshes, invigorates and prevents dehydration.
Juglans nigra

Black walnut (Juglans nigra) products have a history of medicinal uses. American Indians used inner bark tea as an emetic and laxative.

Citrus Aurantium Dulcis
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.
Borage

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.

Boswellia Serrata

Boswellia (Boswellia Serrata) is a plant used in traditional Ayurvedic medicine for centuries that promotes joint comfort and has anti-inflammatory action. Boswellia Serrata Resin Extract is an ingredient originating from historical roots that applied modern science to ancient knowledge.

White Mustard

Mustard (Brassica Alba) was used as a seasoning and medicinal remedy in ancient times. Mustard, in the form of mustard plaster and mustard paper, is intended to have an irritating and pain-relieving effect on rheumatism.

Buddleja Davidii

The buddleja (Buddleja davidii, butterfly bush, or summer lilac) is a plant of Chinese origin brought to Europe in the nineteenth century for use as a garden shrub. Named after Reverend Adam Buddle and a French Jesuit missionary, Père Armand David, B.

Buddleja officinalis
A phytobioactive derived from a Chinese flowering shrub (Buddleja officinalis flower), Soliberine offers potent photoprotection from the damaging effects of blue and infrared light and UV radiation.
Chaihu

Bupleurum Falcatum Root Extract is a plant root extract based on a Chinese medicinal plant called Chaihu. It is a botanical slimming agent that stimulates lipolysis (fat burning) by increasing cAMP via the G Protein.

Burdock (Arctium lappa)
Burdock, officially called Arctium lappa, is considered a healthy and nutritive food in China. Arctium lappa was used as a medicinal herb in Europe, North America, and Asia for centuries.
Butcher’s Broom

Butcher’s Broom (Ruscus Aculeatus; Butcherbroom) was first used as an animal repellent and barrier in the meat trading industry. Years later, it was used to scrub chopping blocks and decorate meat platters.

Caffeine - coffee beans
Caffeine stimulates, activates, firms, improves micro-circulation and plays an important role in breaking down body fat.
Calendula officinalis
Calendula (Calendula officinalis) extract has antiseptic, anti-inflammatory, and anti-fungal properties as well as benefits such as promoting the healing of wounds, skin repair and is famous for use on babies' skin.
Camellia Sinensis

Camellia Sinensis Catechins is a polyphenol fraction of Green Tea extract that contains up to 90% catechins. This concentrated vegetable active ingredient, derived from tea, exhibits numerous beneficial effects on the skin.

Green Tea

Tea processed by the method considered to be “Japanese Green Tea” yields the most useful extract since, in the process of manufacturing black tea, most of the polyphenols are oxidized to form dark-colored ingredients. They then are not available to exhibit their antioxidant properties.

Capsicum Annuum Fruit

Red peppers have a significant content of several interesting families of molecules, such as capsaicinoids, chlorophylls, carotenoids, polyphenols, and flavonoids.