Category: Special Ingredients

Tocopherol is commonly known as Vitamin E. You can get vitamin E from foods rich in fats and oils such as nuts, seeds, vegetable oils, green leafy vegetables, eggs and fruits like kiwi and avocado. Vitamin E helps moisturize the skin, improve skin elasticity and resilience as well as soothe […]

Hyaluronic acid or hyaluronan is found in epithelial (skin), connective (joints) and neural tissues. Hyaluronic acid is a component within the plasma membrane of cells. An average person weighing 70 kilograms has about 15 grams of hyaluronan in the body. About one third of that hyaluronan is degraded and resynthesized […]

Ectoine is a naturally occurring compound that is produced by halophilic bacteria that survive high-salinity or high-salt environments. Ectoine acts as an osmolyte or osmoprotectant by regulating the movement of water out of the bacteria into the salty environment due to the natural osmosis process or high osmotic pressure. In […]

Before we explain more about “what” ceramide is, let’s understand where you can find it on your skin first. The outermost layer of your skin called the stratum corneum consists of many layers of your skin cells. The older skin cells are on the surface of your skin and they […]