“Ice Mushrooms” and cacti for skin care: unexpected beauty items worthy of attention from PEOPLETALK columnist and author of the “Price of Beauty” channel

Even if you are very superficially knowledgeable in the composition of cosmetics, it is unlikely that the main backbone of caring ingredients will pass: vitamin C, retinol, hyaluronic acid, peptides and ceramides are contained in every second jar and are familiar to the average consumer. . Even the exotic snail a few years ago doesn’t scare anyone anymore.

In this article, we have collected three active ingredients that may not be as popular yet, but have no less powerful effect.

Mushrooms (regular and “ice”)

Most often, shiitake mushroom, reishi, chaga, tremella (“ice mushroom”) and various truffle extracts are used in cosmetics. In addition to the extracts, highly active molecules and amino acids are isolated from fungi. Shiitake mushroom works for brightening, tremella deeply moisturizes, chaga helps regenerate and restore the skin barrier, and truffle fights sensitivity and irritation.

Despite their effectiveness, mushroom-based cosmetics are not very common on the Russian market. It deals with local brands Phenomenon and Bemetic mushrooms. Western brand Origins has a full line of “mushrooms” while Murad, Elemis and Meder have dot products.

cacti

In cosmetics, the cactus family is most often represented by the prickly pear or “flat” cactus. Prickly pear, like its prickly counterparts, has the property of retaining moisture, which keeps the skin moist for a long time, mattifies it and does not create an oily effect. Prickly pear extract is obtained from the fleshy stems, which, like aloe, consist of thick mucus.

This year, the Russian brand Krasnopolyanskaya Kosmetika planted a whole planting of prickly pears and mastered this material. A cactus-based care line is also available from the German-Swiss brand Weleda, which is widely represented in Russia. Prickly pear products are also available from Ahava, Kiehl’s, Pacifica and Secret Nature.

oysters

These mollusks are used much more diversely in the beauty industry than in gastronomy. Thus, powdered extracts of the shell and pulp of oysters or dried mollusks enter cosmetics. Such a component causes many connotations with an unpleasant odor, but it is neutralized during production, and the conditional oyster cream smells only an unobtrusive cosmetic smell. The main benefit of oysters in cosmetics is its skin rejuvenation, regeneration and remineralization effect.

Russian brands have not yet fully mastered this component, but recently the patent for cosmetics based on Black Sea aquaculture was received by scientists from the Institute of Biology of the South Seas. Kovalevsky. The line is planned to consist of oysters, mussels and microalgae. But oysters are actively used by Korean brands. For example, such cosmetics can be found in Trimay and Ciracle.