Ingredient Benefits

Botanical Name: Theobroma Grandiflorum

Cupuaçu Butter has a high capacity for water consumption meaning it is a great emollient for cosmetic formulations and is an effective alternative to lanolin. It promotes a smoothness and softness to skin and hair and is beneficial for dry damaged skin.

Extraction Method: Virgin and Cold Pressed.

Benefits:
Cupuaçu also contains a range of phytosterols (natural plant estrogens). Beneficial for dry damaged skin and hair, it acts as an emollient to confer softness and a conditioned feel on the skin; this is the rain forest’s answer to Virgin Shea Butter.
​The moisturizing benefits help restore the skin’s natural humidity and elasticity, with a capacity to retain 200% more water than lanolin. Reduces degeneration of skin cells and restores flexibility, moisture retention and elasticity to the skin.

Composition:
More Information to Follow.

Additional Information:
Growing wild in the eastern sub-region of the Brazilian Amazonia, Cupuaçu Butter is a stable butter obtained from the fruit seed of the cupuaçu tree.
Our purchase of Cupuaçu Butter from remote indigenous communities throughout the Amazon River basin area helps to preserve the natural habitat and directly improves local economic conditions and sustainability.

Our Vitalize Cleansing Bar contains Cupuaçu Butter and can be purchased HERE.

Botanical Name: Argania spinosa

Extraction Method: Cold Pressed

This wonder-oil is rich in vitamin E and other essential fatty acids. Improves skin elasticity making it excellent for scar and stretch mark treatments. It is said to be nourishing, regenerating and protective for all skin types.

Benefits:
Argan Oil with its extremely high level of vitamin E levels and essential fatty acids, it has fantastic healing properties for skin ailments and protects against premature ageing caused by oxidation. Used topically, Argan Oil provides intense conditioning benefits to dry dehydrated skin and hair.
It is said to be nourishing, when applied to the skin, Argan Oil particularly helps restore, regenerate and restructure the skin by way of increasing the nutrient content of skin cells. With superb absorption, this is a fantastic ingredient, great when used in after sun care and anti-inflammatory treatments.
Omega 6 oils are implicated in inflammation, where linoleic acid is thought aid a reduction in inflammation by producing prostaglandins. The oil has a unique profile of fatty acids, tocopherols and contains squalane and possesses more mg/kg of tocopherols than Olive Oil. Additionally, sterols and polyphenols, making it an incredibly nourishing and beneficial ingredient.

Cautions: No known cautions.

Composition:
With almost 80% unsaturated fatty acids, especially essential polyunsaturated fatty acids, e.g. linoleic acid, an omega 6 fatty acid, makes it an excellent skin care ingredient.

Additional Information:
The People of Morocco that harvest this oil call it the African “The Tree of Life” that lives for nearly 200 years and bears fruit after 5 years, and is considered one of the rarest oils in the world, because it almost exclusively produced in Southwestern Morocco and has become known as the “Moroccan Miracle Oil”.

Our Vitalize Cleansing Bar, Liberty Corrective Serum and Eutopia Body Wash contain Argan Oil and can be purchased HERE.

Botanical Name: Ribes nigrum

Blackcurrant seed oil is one of the richest sources of gamma linolenic acid or GLA, an anti-inflammatory agent, along with other important polyunsaturated fatty acids, such as steariodonic acid, which is conditionally essential within the skin as it is unable to make in in situ.

Extraction Method: Cold Pressed

Benefits:
Blackcurrant Seed Oil is very rich in antioxidants and gamma-linolenic acid making it a highly effective anti-inflammatory agent, is vitamin rich and also contains steriodonic acid, also high amounts of omegas 3 and 6.
​This oil is said to increase elasticity in the skin, and can be used to protect and nourish skin tissues preventing chronic skin conditions, such as dermatitis and eczema. It can also be used to slow premature aging.

Cautions: None Known.

 

Composition:
gamma-linolenic and stearodonic acids are conditionally essential fatty acids, meaning your skin is unable to manufacture them, so must be obtained from your diet or applied topically.

Additional Information:
Blackcurrant Seed Oil is obtained from seeds of the blackcurrant. This is a deciduous Eurasian shrub that is found in various parts of the world. It is easily distinguished at all seasons by the strong perfume of its buds and leaves. Blackcurrant Seed Oil is a wonderful golden yellow to red colour.

Our 7 Berry Facial Serum and Liberty Corrective Serum contain Blackcurrant Seed Oil and can be purchased HERE.

Botanical Name: Calendula officinalis

Particularly useful for sensitive skin, this herb is mainly used dermatologically, because it is calming especially when used with other oils, many use calendula to help heal acne scars and burns, known especially for its analgesic and anti-inflammatory properties.

Benefits:
Many phytochemical studies have been conducted on this plant; animal studies have demonstrated the wound-healing properties of this plant, which supports the traditional use of this plant for various dermatological conditions. The anti-inflammatory activity this important herb exhibits is attributed to its triterpenoid constituents; however, it is thought that its flavonoid constituents also may contribute to this activity.
This herb has traditionally been used as an anti-inflammatory, vulnerary or agent to help heal cuts and bruises or similar injuries that break or damage the skin and has well documented antiseptic properties, used for eczema or atopic dermatitis and other inflamed lesions. Studies have shown that extracts of this plant have angiogenic properties or the ability to encourage the formation of new blood vessels.
​German Commission E approved the use of this herb for internal and external treatments and externally for poorly healing sores. All these impressive properties makes this an excellent herb to include in our Phytophar™ BW proprietary complex.

 

Composition:
Flavonoids, quercetin and isorhamenetin, glycosides, namely saponins, important polysaccharides, terpenoids and this plant also contains important sterols. Calendula is known to contain a unique fatty acid called calendic acid also known as a conjugated linolenic acid or CLA, which presents enormous potential health benefits.

Additional Information:
This plant has been used for its amazing healing powers for centauries. Though not generally used in foods, this flower is considered edible when used in salads and other food preparations and is delicious when used as a vividly coloured garnish ingredient.

Our Vitalize Cleansing Bar, Liberty Corrective Serum and Eutopia Body Wash contain Calendula Flower and can be purchased HERE

Botanical Name: Hippophae rhamnoides

Sea buckthorn contains over 20 vitamins and is the richest natural source of vitamin A, packed with antioxidants, fatty acids, flavonoids, and other bioactive compounds. It also contains vitamin E, provitamin D and vitamin K1 or phylloquinone and the palmitoleic (omega 7) acid.

Extraction Method: Cold Pressed

Benefits:
The berries of the sea buckthorn plant are rich in vitamins and minerals. Because of this, the essential oil is well known for its use on the skin. Aromatherapists have credited it with reducing wrinkles, regenerating skin cells, and for promoting the healing of skin injuries such as burns, sunburns, wounds and eczema.
​Sea Buckthorn Oil is used in anti-aging and medicinal skin care products, as well as in formulations to promote the healing of burns, sores, eczema and other skin conditions. This oil acts as a natural emollient, softening and conditioning the skin, helping to moisturize and soothe dry, aging skin. Sea Buckthorn Oil makes a wonderful treatment for a dry, irritated scalp. This oil has also been shown to not only care for skin, but actively slow down skin maturation, keeping aging and bay and helping to keep skin protected from the elements, this makes Sea Buckthorn Oil a very sought after natural anti-aging ingredient.
​This vegetable oil is traditionally utilised to promote the healing of skin injuries, such as burns, sores, wounds, eczema and help improve conditions of mucous membranes, including ulcers, lesions, and erosions. It is also used to combat wrinkles, dryness and other symptoms of malnourished or prematurely aging skin.
​Also, this oil is thought to posses an antibacterial action; inhibits the growth of staphylococci and other bacteria.

Composition:
This oil contains appreciable quantities of, and is one of the best sources of the rare omega 7 fatty acid, palmitoleic acid, which is implicated in skin repair.
​Sea Buckthorn Oil also contains the highest concentrations of carotenoids in any exotic vegetable oil.

Additional Information:
Sea buckthorn is a traditional medicinal plant in many European and Asian countries. Its name literally translates to shining horse. This is because horses were fed sea buckthorn to improve the condition of their coats. Legend has it the ancient Greeks used its leaves as food for their racehorses.
Sea buckthorn are so rich in vitamins and nutrients that it has been speculated that the plant must have been cultivated by some ancient plant-breeder. The colour of this oil ranges from deep red to brown red.

Our Eutopia Body Wash, 7 Berry Facial Serum and Liberty Corrective Serum contain Seabuckthorn Oil and can be purchased HERE