Covering over 70% of the Earth’s surface, the marine environment represents the highest percentage of living biosphere on our planet and is full of examples of survival and regeneration as organisms adapt to their surroundings and varying climatic conditions.
Reproducing these unique properties provides a natural and sustainable source of benefits for skin care.
Based on the years of experience in biotechnology and botanical extracts, Lipotec has selected nine ingredients of marine origin intended to beautify the skin that can be included in formulations worldwide since they are all CFDA listed.
Traveling through the waters around the globe, various destinations reveal birthplaces of diverse ingredients, some being natural molecules with proven efficacy and innovative mechanisms of action and others, botanical extracts.
Lipotec’s Marine Beauty underwater expedition entails the following nine stopovers as an illustration of the numerous possible destinations researched around the globe for new ingredients inspiration:
To highlight a few examples of the places visited on this tour, there is the Aber Wrac’h estuary, where salty water from the Atlantic joins with fresh water from rivers and rain creating an extreme environment.
One of its inhabitants is the Laminaria algae with marine Ƴ-proteobacteria strains on their surface that secrete exopolysaccharides responsible for increasing their survival. Obtained through biotechnology by the fermentation of these strains, Hyanify marine ingredient contributes to stimulating hyaluronic acid synthesis decreased during ageing providing a replenishing effect to the skin.
There is also a stop at the ice-cold waters of the Antarctica, where another bacterial strain, the
Pseudoalteromonas Antarctica NF3, is isolated. Due to its extreme conditions of life, it produces a glycoprotein believed to help it to retain water, adhere to surfaces and withstand cold temperatures. This bacterial strain led to Antarcticine marine ingredient that assists not only in reducing cutaneous dryness, roughness and the depth of wrinkles developed under extreme cold but also in decreasing chronological wrinkles.
At the end of the trip, inhabiting the intertidal and subtidal zones to a depth of 15-20 metres of the waters surrounding Japan, lives a large brown seaweed called Wakame. Very popular in the Asian cuisine, it is rich in fucoxanthin - known to be able to reduce pigmentation- and has skin brightening effects. Extracted from this seaweed, Actiphyte wakame is intended to help diminish melanogenesis to brighten and even the skin complexion.
As Global Center of Expertise of Lubrizol’s Complete Advanced Skin Care, Lipotec is committed to empowering its clients with products and services that will enable them to accelerate their creativity.
