Ingredient Benefits

Botanical Name: Limnanthes alba

Meadowfoam Seed Oil is prized for applications that require a moisturizing and rejuvenating benefit for the skin. Oil useful where you need to nourish the skin and outer epidermis. Its high oxidative stability, lubricity and ability to stay on the skin.

Extraction Method: Cold Pressed

Benefits:
It is resistant to oxidation due to naturally occurring tocopherols, and is one of the most stable lipids known.
Meadowfoam Seed Oil has wonderful moisturizing and rejuvenating properties and is highly recommended for use in cosmetics and skin care products especially for its UV protection properties.
Mead Seed Oil is prized for applications, which require a moisturising and rejuvenating benefit for the skin. Oil useful where you need to nourish the skin and outer epidermis. Its high oxidative stability, lubricity and ability to stay on the skin.

Cautions: None known.

Composition:
Contains 98% fatty acids long-chain carbon atoms.

Additional Information:

Meadowfoam is a small, herbaceous winter-spring annual. The name Meadowfoam is derived from the typical white blooming of plants which give the image of white foam covering the soil. It has a light golden to yellow in colour.
Meadowfoam is a very earth-friendly product. The Meadowfoam plant is a sustainable and renewable resource. Often used by farmers for a rotation crop, it also helps to bring in additional income. It was originally developed as an alternative to Sperm Whale oil, thereby helping to lessen the demand.

Our Liberty Corrective Serum contains Meadowfoam Seed Oil and can be purchased HERE

Botanical Name: Humulus lupulus

Recognised for its sedative, antimicrobial action of hops and is yet very soothing and tones the skin and hair, it is thought to help aid relief from swelling and itching and irritation.

Benefits:
The chemistry of this plant is well understood and the pharmacological activities of this plant support its herbal use. Hops herb has been used in traditional medicine because of its topical antibacterial activity and has been used to treat ulcers. The German Commission E listed the use of this herb for its sedative properties and for the treatment of mood disorders.

 

Composition:

Known to contain flavonoids, such as quercetin and rutin, chalcones, tannins such as the potent antioxidant gallocatechin, amino acids, phenolic acids and the anti-inflammatory gamma-linolenic acid.

Additional Information:
The use of this plant is listed under the council of Europe as a food ingredient.

Our Eutopia Body Wash contains Hops Flower and can be purchased HERE

Botanical Name: Fucus serratus

Location: West Coast of Kerry, Ireland.
Seaweed type: Wild-harvested
Drying method: Natural, wind and sun.

All brown seaweeds contain unique fucoidans. Used in therapeutic spas and baths for hundreds of years, to produce an “oily” feeling healing water when used in the bath as a spa treatment, that draws water into the skin, leaving it refreshed, revived and rejuvenated.

Benefits:
This is a major ingredient in our seaweed home spa, this seaweed is renowned for the rich bathing experience produced when this seaweed is placed in warm bathing water, with its skin protecting action, it helps to protect the skin from everyday environmental stresses.
​Traditionally used to relieve aches and pains, for arthritis and rheumatism and to help alleviate the irritations associated with eczema and psoriasis.
​A wide range of biological activities are elicited by fucoidans from various species of brown seaweeds, fucoidans from this species of seaweed were shown to reduce inflammation in some animal models of 83% over the controls where no fucoidan was added. Some fucoidans protect collagen by encouraging the synthesis of new collagen and preventing the breakdown of existing collagen by inhibiting our own natural collagenases that occurs as we age, a true anti-aging treatment.

Composition:
Highly prized for its fucoidan content up to 16% of the dry weight of the plant, this mucopolysaccharide produces a highly viscous bathing water used in spas. Additionally, this seaweed contains the carotenoids fucoxanthin and beta-carotene, vitamin E.

Additional Information:
Also known as Toothed Wrack, Saw Wrack or Serrated Wrack.

Our Liberty Corrective Serum and 7 Berry Facial Serum both contain Fucus Serratus which can be purchased HERE

Botanical Name: Orbignya oleifera

A powerful skin barrier repair agent and intense natural moisturizer. As an excellent emollient it helps the skin to retain water by creating a protective film, ideal for dry or oily skin conditions, inflamed or itchy skin complaints.

Extraction Method: Virgin and Cold Pressed

Benefits:
Bagasse Oil is a superb emollient, a great moisturizer claimed to be beneficial for both dry and oily skin, it gently moisturizes without contributing to an oily sheen, this excellent emollient, when applied to the skin, produces a cooling effect and has been shown to form a protective coat with a velvety feel, therefore, is ideal for highly moisturizing skin products.
​Babassu Oil has been prized in South America for its great moisturizing quality and beneficial effect on the skin. A great coconut substitute, because of it emolliency, often to treat dry, itchy and inflamed skin.

Cautions: None Known.

Composition:
Babassu Oil contains a high content of lauric and myristic acids, which have melting points relatively close to the body temperature, with good absorption into the skin.

Additional Information:
The babassu tree is native to the coastal areas of North Eastern Brazil and grows wild in other regions of South America, this indigenous plant is known as the South American “Tree of Life”. And possesses a rich creamy aroma and is cream yellow coloured.
​The name babassu comes from the Tupis (an Amazonian tribe), whereas its genus name “Orbignya” comes from the French paleontologist A.D. d’Orbigny who first discovered this tree in the early 1800’s while on expedition to South Amer.

Our Eutopia Body Wash contains Babassu Oil and can be purchased HERE

Botanical Name: Malva Sylvestris

Wild mallow is a natural skin hydrator because of its emoliency, therefore, as amazing skin softening properties that make it an excellent addition to cosmetic products, especially useful for sensitive skins and areas of the body prone to irritation and inflammation.

Benefits:
Also known as the high mallow, this herb belongs to the same family as the marshmallow where members of this group all produce skin caring mucilages and are highly beneficial for the skin.
​Akin to the marshmallow, herbalists have used this plant because of its analgesic, anti-inflammatory, antiseptic and astringent activity, this plant is a wonderful demulcent or agent that relives inflammation and irritation.
Used also because of its highly emollient action. Emollients are ingredients that maintain the soft, smooth and pliable appearance of the skin, which function by their ability to remain on the skins surface without any residual tackiness or shine or by being absorbed into the stratum corneum, the skins natural barrier to moisture loss, where they act as lubricants, to reduce flaking and ultimately improve the skins appearance.
​Extracts of this herb are part of Doctor Maher’s Phytophar™ BW complex, a proprietary balanced mixture used to effectively condition the skin found in our Eutopia Body Care product.

Composition:
Contains complex polysaccharide (sugar-based) mucilages up to 12%.

Additional Information:
Also known as the wild mallow, to distinguish this plant from the marshmallow.

 

Our Eutopia Body Wash and Liberty Corrective Serum contain Wild Mallow Flower and can be purchased HERE