This serum contains every lipid your skin needs in a squalane base. Designed to help repair the skin barrier (squalane, ceramides) and supply all lipids your skin needs, including essential fatty acids (in rosehip oil), and other lipids your skin can synthesize but may not be making in sufficient amounts, leading to broke, dry skin that does not provide a good barrier against the environment. Our stratum corneum consists of the corneocytes (flattened cells that have lost their nuclei) embedded in a lipid mixture consisting mainly of ceramides, cholesterol, and fatty acids. Loss of skin lipids result in an increased water loss and increased penetration of harmful compounds, especially for people living in big cities. Coninuous use of this serum shouls alleviate skin dryness and sensitivity.

Ingredient list: Squalane and Olea Europea (olive) fruit extract, Rosa rubiginosa (rosehip) seed oil, Punica granatum (pomegranate) seed oil, Lecithin, Cholesterol Oleyl Carbonate and Cholesteryl Nanoate and Cholesteryl Chloride, Punica granatum (pomegranate) Seed Oil and Astaxanthin and Tocotrienols and Lycopene and alpha D-Tocopherol and Thioctic Acid and Lutein, Phytosterols, Ceramide-3.

Properties: moisturizing (lipophilic), nutritive, for scars and stretch marks.

Use: use as is, or add to your favorite cream or lotion, or add a few drops to your bath. You can add a few drops of fragrance (included).

Further information:

Squalane: this lipid is derived from olive squalene. The good alternative to mineral oil.

Olive fruit extract: the olive fruit is full of beneficial chemicals especially suited for the skin., among them oleuropein, hydroxytyrosol, caffeic acid, catechin and rutin.

Rosehip oil: this organic, cold pressed oil is made fresh from the seeds of the wild rose (Rosa affinis rubiginosa) that grows in Chile. Rosehip oil is a concentrated solution in linoleic (41%) and linolenic acid (39 %), two essential fatty acids that are found in the structural lipids of the cell but humans cannot synthesize them. It also contains trans-retinoic acid, tocopherols and carotenoids (responsible for the pink/orange color of the oil). In clinical studies with humans, rosehip oil was effective in aiding tissue regeneration in surgical wounds and in the treatment of keloids. This is my favorite oil, cold pressed from seeds of rosa mosqueta in the Andes. This oil does not smell of roses (it is not an essential oil but a "fixed" oil), so don't be surprised.

Pomegranate seed oil: Pomegranate seed oil is rich in a fatty acid unique to this fruit, punicic acid. Pomegranate oil has chemopreventive activity against skin cancer and, very important, it has shown significant inhibition of proliferation of metastatic breast cancer cells, both estradiol-dependent and estradiol independent. Pomegranate seed oil causes breast cancer cells to go to apoptosis (self-destruct). The anti-metastatic effect may be through its anti-angiogenic potential. The oil is also cytotoxic to human monocytic leukemia cells.

Lecithin: Lecithin is a mixture of polar and nonpolar lipids with a polar lipid content of at least 50% from soybean (egg-yolk can also be used). The most important chemical in lecithin is phosphatidylcholine, and lecithin is often used as a synonim for phosphatidylcholine. Lecithin is used in pharmaceutical and cosmetic because of its amphiphilic structure, one extreme of the molecule has affinity for water and the other for non-polar molecules like oil, making lecithins an emulsifier. They are also used to make liposomes, which are essentially large drops of phospholipids enclosing non-polar, oily molecules (like vitamin E), giving them a suitable environment and keeping out the water.

Liquid Crystal: this complex of cholesterol derivatives will supply cholesterol to the skin and will help other actives penetrate the skin. Cholesterol is a crucial component of cell membranes, which govern traffic of metabolites in and out the cell and between cellular compartments.

Phytosterols: this complex includes beta sitosterol, campestrol and sigmasterol. This active will help repair damaged and dry skin, has anti-inflammatory and conditioning properties and will normalize skin turnover.

Ceramides: an intercellular lipid crucial to the role of the skin as a protectant barrier bettween our body and the environment.

Antioxidant booster: this synergistic antioxidant mix is easy to use and will protect skin lipids and membranes. The cell membrane system comprises the membrane that separates the cell from the outside and all internal membranes, any damage to cell membranes will compromise function and even lead to cell death.

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