Cosmeceutical

Using cosmeceuticals in our facial products for oily skin

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Oftentimes, oily skinned people sit on the sidelines wishing we could use some of these interesting and exotic cosmeceutical ingredients, knowing that we would break out almost immediately if we added extra oils to our skin. But we can use oil free type moisturizers, so let’s take a look at how we can incorporate some...

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Using cosmeceuticals in our facial products

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So you’ve found a few cosmeceuticals you like and you’re wondering how you can incorporate them into a lovely facial product. For the most part, you’ll want to stick to leave on products like lotions or toners because a lot of them are completely wasted in a cleaning product as they’ll just wash off and...

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Cosmeceuticals: A summary and links

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So this kinda concludes our look at cosmeceuticals. There are just too many of them to research and review, but this doesn’t mean you won’t see more posts on them in the future…I just need to take a break for now and focus on how to use them in our products. (If you don’t know...

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Cosmeceutical: Matrixyl 3000

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Matrixyl 3000 (INCI: Glycerin (and) Water (and) Butylene Glycol (and) Carbomer (and) Polysorbate 20 (and) Palmitoyl Oligopeptide (and) Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-7) contains two matrikines – Pal-GHK and Pal-GQPR. It claims that it helps to “maintain skin’s youthful appearance” by offering anti-wrinkling and lifting effects. So what the heck does this all mean? Matrikines are “peptides liberated by...

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Cosmeceuticals: Palmitoyl tetrapeptide-7

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Palmitoyl tetrapeptide-7 (formerly known as palmitoyl tetrapeptide-3 for some reason) is another polypeptide we can find as a cosmeceutical, although it seems the only place I’ve been able to find it is in Matrixyl 3000 as palmitoyl GQPR (glycine-glutamine-proline-arganine connected to palmitic acid). It’s attached to the palmitic acid to make it more oil solubility...

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