The Gattefossé analysis group continues to discover the beauty potential of sea buckthorn leaves (Hippophae rhamnoides), a thorny shrub whose vitamin C-, flavonoid-, and anthocyanin-rich fruits have lengthy been valued in meals and pure medication.
Excessive biomolecular curiosity
In 2024, the French supplier of pure lively substances offered Eyeglorius [1], an oil-soluble bioactive devoted to anti-fatigue skincare and make-up formulation and obtained by way of supercritical CO2 extraction from under-exploited sea buckthorn leaves.
Contemplating the exceptional phytochemical richness of the shrub, with an abundance of phenolic acids, lipophilic compounds, nutritional vitamins, and natural acids, Gattefossé used completely different extraction applied sciences to harness the total potential of this uncooked materials.
Only one yr after this primary launch, sea buckthorn’s excessive organic potential results in a second upcycled lively ingredient.
Defending pores and skin in opposition to environmental stress
Named Noxifense, this 100% pure lively ingredient ensures a holistic method to pores and skin sensitivity care, by strengthening the pores and skin’s protection mechanisms in opposition to environmental stress.
In accordance with Gattefossé, it attracts on the emergent principle of “oxi-inflammation,” the dangerous interaction between oxidative stress and irritation. “Its soothing results are achieved by means of a finely tuned course of concentrating on particular households of flavonoids, that are of excessive curiosity for his or her antioxidant and anti inflammatory properties.”
Noxifense is presently being previewed on the PCHI present, in Guangzhou, China (February 19 to 21).
Secured provide in Quebec, Canada
To extract these two bioactives from sea buckthorn leaves, Gattefossé labored to safe the availability of the plant from Quebec, Canada. The useful resource comes from a family-owned orchard devoted to rising the shrub in natural situations and reworking its berries into meals merchandise.
Each September, the fruit-bearing branches are manually minimize, permitting for tree pruning. The leaves are separated from the fruits which can be reworked into juices, sorbets, or jams.
For its half, Gattefossé recovers the leaves to upcycle this materials which was under-exploitd earlier than that.
“In addition to implementing a waste administration system, we’re additionally working with the notion of upcycling. Wastes’ restoration is absolutely built-in proper from the earliest levels of growth. This method has even been bolstered inside the final years with a number of tasks underway primarily based on upcycling, as a supply of future sustainable, accountable and efficient merchandise,” says Laurent Schubnel, Group CSR Chief at Gattefossé.
