Skin School
Phospholipids are a type of lipid that are formulated in many skincare products as an emollient as well as a skin-identical ingredient. This makes phospholipids highly effective at mimicking the traits of Natural Moisturising Factors (NMF) allowing your skin to remain at its healthiest state.
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Persea gratissmia oil is an oil extracted from the pulp of the avocado, everyone’s favourite fruit! This oil is enriched in high levels of antioxidants, moisturising fatty acids and contains a large amount of minerals and essential vitamins, such as A, E and D. The antioxidant properties of Persea gratissmia oil will protect the skin from daily environmental aggressors and free radical damage caused by pollution, UV exposure and other skin stresses.
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Opuntia Ficus-Indica is more commonly known as the prickly pear, a fruit that is native to Mexico and regularly found in food, jams, drinks and preservatives. There is little research about opuntia ficus-indica extract and the sort of skincare benefits you can see when formulated into cosmetics and beauty products.
Magnesium Ascorbyl Phonsphante (MAP) is a well-loved and used form of vitamin C (aka ascorbic acid) and is frequently blended into skincare formulations due to the fact it is one of the only stable compounds derived from vitamin C, which you may know, is notoriously unstable and often proved too difficult to add into products.
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Linoleic acid, also known as LA, is one of the immensely popular omega-6 fatty acid and natural occurring in the skin. You can expect to find large levels of this fatty acid outer layer of the skin, called the epidermis and performs the important task of preserving the structure of the skin and promoting ceramides enabling the skin’s protective barrier to function correctly.
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