Sea Cucumber Collagen
What is it?
Our primary ingredient Sea Cucumber Collagen, is overflowing with impressive and unbeatable benefits. This wild-harvested ingredient, as the cream superstar, is well-deserving of first place.
What does it do?
Sea Cucumber Collagen is a unique source of marine collagen that repairs skin collagen and elastin protein fibers and produces a significant thickening of the outer skin surface (epidermis) and enhances the homogeneous distribution of collagen fibers in the dermis, by promoting an increase in the number and activity of skin fibroblast (anti-aging effect).
Sea Cucumber Collagen is composed of echinoderm mutable collagenous tissue (MCT) a unique extracellular matrix with high similarity to human connective tissue and provides the optimal environment for new collagen biosynthesis, cell growth, and tissue repair.
Sea Cucumber Collagen essential amino acid composition shows key amino acids for preventing skin aging, provides better moisturizing properties, sustained firming effect and creates a suitable environment for cells to regenerate.
Squalane
What is it?
Oily and acne-prone skin rejoice, squalane is here to replace those mineral or oleic oils and nasty chemicals commonly found in typical moisturizers that claim to nourish your skin but leave it oilier than before, sensitive and irritated AND (worst of all), breaking out! SqualEne (with an E) is instead naturally derived from plant sources as a lipid and then stabilized through hydrogenation into squalAne (with an A) to be used in cosmetics as a non-comedogenic emollient and moisturizer. Our bodies produce squalene to nourish skin cells. However, like hyaluronic acid, it falls victim to the aging process and degrades rapidly, hence why squalane is the perfect nourishing and synthetically stable addition to any skincare, especially for those with excessive sebum production.
What does it do?
As an emollient, it hydrates and as a moisturizer, it well… moisturizes! Although it is technically an oil, squalane leaves no oily film, and, unlike other oils, it is free from any unpleasant odors. Squalane doesn't just stop there though; it's a free-radical fighter and detoxifier thanks to a multitude of antioxidants, and, while providing your skin with a barrier from the elements, it is also a natural booster of collagen meaning aging or dull skin will be glowing again in no time! Squalane is also naturally anti-bacterial, so acne-suffers won't need to fear clogged pores or reddened and sensitive skin that breaks out with every application (finally!)
Munapsys
What is it?
Now, THIS is an ingredient you don't see every day. Why? Because it is a fresh (and insanely youthful-looking) face on the cosmeceutical block. What's more, Munapsys is the FIRST active synaptic skincare ingredient EVER. Yes, neuroscience and cosmeceuticals are compatible! What makes it synaptic is the unique way in which this peptide acts on pre-synaptic and post-synaptic levels, targeting the newly discovered protein Munc-18 to prevent the development of the SNARE complex, the process of aging in the skin, and activating the acetylcholine neurotransmitter, respectively… Basically, all scientific jargon and labels that essentially spells skin T.R.A.N.S.F.O.R.M.A.T.I.O.N.
What does it do?
Munapsys is a ground-breaking anti-ager due to its firming and collagen-boosting abilities that act on the deepest level to provide unbeatable results, flattening wrinkles, elasticizing tired skin, and dramatically improving skin texture. One of the few studies ever done on this new ingredient reported that, within 14 days, the women using a cream with 3% Munapsys saw a ~20% improvement in skin texture and ~36% reduction in wrinkle volume! ONE fortnight!
Hyaluronic Acid (HA)
What is it?
Hyaluronic Acid (HA) or 'hyaluronan' is a naturally occurring glycosaminoglycan (yep, the same species of amino acid as those found in the sea cucumber extract AND the peptides in Matrixyl 3000). Due to its unique structure, it has the mind-boggling ability to exponentially expand by absorbing water up to 1000x its original volume!
In cosmetics, HA is synthesized and reinforced in order to replace and BOOST the HA our skin naturally contains but loses in the dreaded aging process.
What does it do?
Similar to every other carefully chosen ingredient in the serum formula, hyaluronan catalyzes skin cell growth and renewal, provides anti-inflammatory benefits, tumor, and free radical protection, hydration, and also supports collagen production to maintain skin health, elasticity, and turgidity (bounce.)
Hydrated skin, here you come!
Kakadu Plum Extract
What is it?
We're going back to our roots (literally) with this ingredient… Kakadu Plum Extract is from the ripe yellow Kakadu Plum fruit grown in the Northern Territory, Australia. It has been used for thousands of years by Australia's Indigenous Aboriginal peoples as a soothing, wound healing and scar fading antiseptic, so don't just take our word for it when we say this little miracle fruit has some incredible skin benefits! (The locals clearly know best!) These tiny plums are so bioactive that they contain the richest amount of Vitamin C out of ALL known natural sources. We're talking 3000mg of Vitamin C per 100g of fruit!
What does it do?
If you're familiar with Vitamin C, whether it's as ascorbic acid, magnesium ascorbate, or other forms, you'll know how potent this simple micronutrient is, so imagine what the MOST potent source could offer? Combine that ascorbic acid with the phytochemicals gallic and ellagic acid, and you're looking at a true superfruit. Kakadu plum extract proves just how powerful botanicals can be by brightening dull skin, antioxidizing to prevent free-radical damage, protecting from carcinogens, banishing fine lines and wrinkles, soothing inflammation, healing hyperpigmentation, and busting acne.