The Journal — Botanics
Key Ingredient: Centella Asiatica
Centella Asiatica, also known as Gotu Kola or Tiger Grass, is extremely popular in Asia. And for a very good reason, the skin benefits are numerous and it’s an ingredient for total skin recovery. Tiger grass grows in swampy areas with a tropical climate, and has been used for hundreds of years as a medicinal plant. It’s said that tigers used to roll in the grass to heal their wounds and elephants who ate them lived longer. This ingredient has been used as an effective anti-ageing agent, mainly due to enhancement of type I collagen, whose amount in skin...
Key Ingredient: Snow Mushroom
Snow mushroom aka Tremella Fuciformis is THE plant-based alternative for hyaluronic acid. It’s extracted from an edible jelly white mushroom and has been used for thousands of years in Chinese medicine. Snow fungus is a popular anti-aging supplement. Hyaluronic acid (HA) is also known as hyaluronan, which is a sugar naturally found in our skin. The main function is to retain water and keep your skin hydrated and plump. This jellly-like super moisturizer from the flowery sponge-like white mushroom, can just like hyaluronic acid holding up to 1.000 times it's weight in water to help lock in moisture. Besides...
Key Ingredient: Acmella Oleracea
Acmella Oleracea aka paracress or jambu plant, is nature’s answer to botox. This ingredient is extracted from the acmella oleracea plant and contains the N-alkylamide spilanthol. Traditionally, this native Amazonian plant was known by the indigenous people as the toothache plant because of the pain-relieving effect. The spilanthol mimics a botox treatment by slowing down contractions and relaxing the face muscles. it has been clinically tested to target the loss of skin firmness and appearance of deep wrinkles by stimulating the fibroblast biomechanical functions. The benefits? Fine lines and wrinkles caused by muscle tension will be reduced, and leads to a smoother and firmer skin. This...
Key Ingredient: Bakuchiol
Bakuchiol (pronounced as ba-koo-chee-all), is THE plant-based alternative for retinol aka vitamin A. It’s extracted from the seeds of the Babchi plant (psoralea corylifolia) which is native to the Himalayan region and has been used in Ayurvedic medicine for centuries. The benefits of Bakuchiol? Besides it’s natural, it has powerful anti-ageing properties. Bakuchiol stimulates the collagen production, meaning that it helps your skin to increase cell turnover, and reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles. This increase in collagen pushes new skin cells to the top and improves your skin condition by smoothing and improving the texture and diminishing...