Know Your Ingredients
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An African treasure, the Baobab fruit is appreciated in cooking for its tangy taste and its nutritional qualities, particularly for its high levels of vitamin C and calcium. In terms of beauty, it is an ideal active ingredient for dull and tired skin. This powder also works wonders in the preparation of moisturizing and soothing masks for sensitive skin, or to fight against the signs of skin aging. Baobab fruit is rich in antioxidants, it contains 10 times more vitamin C than orange, which explains its ancestral use to fight against the signs of skin aging.
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The beautiful Peony plant is normally cultivated as ornamental qualities. But did you know that this plant holds an important place in the Chinese pharmacopoeia? Indeed, it is known to soothe period pain and facilitate childbirth.
Recent studies have revealed the presence of paeniflorin in its roots, making this plant a very interesting cosmetic active ingredient for calming irritation.
It's traditionally recognised anti-inflammatory activity was used to soothe delicate scalps. This powder is an ingredient particularly suitable for calming skin.
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The Prickly Pear is a cactus that grows in abundance around the Mediterranean basin. Prickly Pear Oil is a very precious and very rare oil obtained only by cold pressing the seeds of Opuntia ficus indica. Extraction yields are very low since there is only 5% oil in the small seed, hence its very high cost.
This precious oil has astonishing regenerating and anti-dehydration qualities for the skin, widely used by Tunisian ancestors to reduce scars. It's exceptional richness in Vitamin E (around 1000 mg/kg) and sterols (around 10 g/kg) is useful for protecting the skin against damage linked to free radicals. It also contains significant quantities of essential fatty acids, including linoleic acid (omega-6), and constitutes an excellent skin softening and repairing agent. This oil is therefore an exceptional allied ingredient to fight against the signs of skin aging.
Pink clay is softening, it gently purifies fragile skin and restores radiance to the complexion, ultra-ventilated powder form is a raw illite clay, sun-dried for optimum results. Ideal for sensitive skins, the pink clay is a soft neutral clay known for its softening properties.