In the skincare industry, when it comes to efficacy ingredients, there are two forces in the competition: the Chemical Synthesis and botanical extracts.
These two parts represent the current trend of most brands and industries. For example, the two popular ingredients , we are familiar with niacinamide, vitamin A alcohol, peptides and so on, which are representative of chemical synthesis, their chemical structure is very clear, the function is also well studied, so many people flock to.
A lot of times people will associate them with mild, natural, non-irritating and so on, but in fact if you look at many women's brand products, they are more willing to use plant ingredients.it is not because they do not want to pursue efficacy, for these brands, style and effect need to be done, they also want to maximize the hiding of their own technical secrets, when plant ingredients can play its power.
In essence, the various plant extracts are still made up of chemical components.
For example, "centella asiatica extracts", if you want to achieve a good repair and soothing effect, So take a closer look at whether there are enough asiaticoside, asiatic, hydroxyasiatic, and other molecules inside.
Another example of "licorice extract" has whitening and anti-inflammatory effects, it comes from the Glabridin or Glycyrrhiza chalcones, only seeing word "licorice" is useless.
Why not extract ingredients and use them in skin care products like vitamin aol and niacinide?
On the one hand, the ingredients in plant extracts are quite complex, which may be as many as dozens, sometimes they are synergistic, extraction is difficult, a single ingredient may not have better effect, it is better to mix up;
On the other hand, for trade secret reasons, although some components are detailed and can be synthesized, it will also be written as XX extract, so that competitors look confused, their own technology will not be leaked.
Botanical extracts have always been a very technical area. Even if the ingredients list says exactly the same XX extract, different suppliers, extraction and concentration processes, will bring a wide variety of effects
