Personal Care Ingredients

UP-CITRUS EXTRACT is a multi-functional natural ingredient derived from the peel waste of Italian oranges and mandarins through an up-cycling beauty process. This extract is rich in beneficial properties that make it suitable for both skincare and haircare applications. It promotes youthful, revitalized, and healthy skin thanks to its energizing, illuminating, antioxidant, and anti-aging properties, which act on collagen and wrinkles. In hair care, it detoxifies hair from metals with anti-pollution activity and provides conditioning and anti-frizz effects. On the scalp, it re-balances the microbiome and offers deep, soothing properties for a revitalized, healthy scalp.

Oryza ceramide®, brownish in colour extracted and refined from rice bran or rice germ, contains a large amount of glycosphingolipid. Oryza ceramide® was found to contain four significant constituents. The structures of these constituents were established by analysis of various chromatographs and NMR spectra.

Refined Pracaxi Oil is an oil issued from Pracaxi Amazonian trees belonging to the Fabaceae family. Due to its unique fatty composition it is quickly absorbed on skin. Highly spreadable it promotes excellent hydration at the dermal level, being used in formulations of creams, lotions, massage gels, ointments, damaged hair products and moisturizing oils. Due to its properties it is often featured in products for dry areas, stretch marks and blemishes reduction and again in products with pro-aging appeal, such as firming action, improvement of the skin's natural elasticity, skin tone uniformity, tissue regeneration. Combined with actives such as hyaluronic acid, studies prove its action, whether independently in stimulating the natural synthesis of hyaluronic acid in the body, or as a booster in the action of this asset. On the hair, it is highly indicated for conditioning products, as its high composition of long-chain behenic acid favors the promotion of conditioning, softness, shine, volume and frizz control. It helps seal the hair cuticles repairing split ends and preventing hair loss due to breakage.