ORGANIC THE NEW BEAUTY

2% Bakuchiol Serum

Oil-in-lecithin, vegan, fragrance free. Natural and organic quality oils and extracts | no silicones | skinactives in high concentration helps to reduce the signs of skin ageing. Bakuchiol is a natural retinol-a-like, helping to renew the skinmatrix for a younger looking, plumped skin. Reducing the look of lines and wrinkles.

Uploaded by: michael09 on 12/06/2020

Ingredients overview

Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride (Mct Oil, Natural), Bakuchiol (Natural), Phosphatidylcholine (Lecithin, Natural), Tocopherol (Natural), Laminaria Ochroleuca (Algae) Extract (Natural)

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Key Ingredients

Antioxidant: Bakuchiol (Natural), Tocopherol (Natural)

Cell-communicating ingredient: Bakuchiol (Natural)

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Ingredient name	what-it-does	irr., com.	ID-Rating
Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride (Mct Oil, Natural)	emollient
Bakuchiol (Natural)	cell-communicating ingredient, antioxidant, antimicrobial/antibacterial		goodie
Phosphatidylcholine (Lecithin, Natural)	emulsifying
Tocopherol (Natural)	antioxidant	0-3, 0-3	goodie
Laminaria Ochroleuca (Algae) Extract (Natural)

ORGANIC THE NEW BEAUTY 2% Bakuchiol Serum
Ingredients explained

Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride (Mct Oil, Natural)

What-it-does: emollient

A super common emollient that makes your skin feel nice and smooth. It comes from coconut oil and glycerin, it’s light-textured, clear, odorless and non-greasy. It’s a nice ingredient that just feels good on the skin, is super well tolerated by every skin type and easy to formulate with. No wonder it’s popular.

Bakuchiol (Natural) - goodie

Also-called: Sytenol A, Phyto Retinol | What-it-does: cell-communicating ingredient, antioxidant, antimicrobial/antibacterial

At first glance, you could think that Bakuchiol is your average plant extract. It is derived from the seeds of Psoralea Corylifolia, aka Babchi, a plant important in Indian and Chinese medicine. The molecule was first isolated in 1973 and several anti-something properties are known about it: it has anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, anti-tumor, anti-bacterial and hepatoprotective magical abilities like plenty of other Ayurvedic plant extracts.

What makes Bakuchiol a special snowflake is the recent discovery that it behaves on the skin in a way very similar to well-known skincare superstar, retinol. While chemically, it has nothing to do with the vitamin-A family, aka retinoids, comparative gene expression profiling (a fancy way of saying that they compared how retinol and bakuchiol modify the way skin cells behave and produce important skin proteins such as collagen) shows that retinol and bakuchiol regulate skin cell behavior in a similar way.

To be more specific, both Bakuchiol and retinol upregulate collagen I, III and IV production and downregulate MMP, the evil collagen attacking enzyme in our skin. This means more collagen stays in our skin and we all know that more collagen equals firmer, more wrinkle-free skin. A 12-week clinical study using a 0.5% Bakuchiol formula with 17 people using it twice a day confirmed a significant improvement in lines and wrinkles, elasticity, firmness and an overall reduction in photo-damage. Also, the test formula was very well tolerated, without any retinol-like side effects.

What's more, a 2018 double-blind study with 44 people compared 0.5% Bakuchiol with 0.5% retinol cream and found that "bakuchiol is comparable to retinol in its ability to improve photoaging and is better tolerated than retinol". A super promising result after 12 weeks.

If you are not a daredevil-type who doesn't want to stop using a super well-proven retinol for a newbie like Bakuchiol, we have good news. The two also work very nicely together and Bakuchiol can actually help to stabilize the otherwise unstable and hard to formulate retinol.

And we are still not done, as Bakuchiol shows not only anti-aging properties but also nice anti-acne effects. 1% Bakuchiol seems to be very effective in itself (57% reduction in acne after 6 weeks treatment) and even better when combined with 2% salicylic acid (67% reduction in acne after 6 weeks). We like that Bakuchiol is such a good team player! The molecule works against acne in multiple ways: It downregulates 5α-reductase (a sebum-controlling enzyme), it is antibacterial (including P. acnes), anti-inflammatory and it inhibits lipid-peroxidation, an evil oxidative process that is recently thought to be a very early trigger in the acne process.

We feel that this description is becoming very long so we will just mention that Bakuchiol also seems to positively regulate hydration-related genes such as Aquaporin 3 and also shows some melanin-inhibiting properties.

Overall, we think Bakuchiol is an awesome molecule with lots of promise both for anti-aging and anti-acne. But the proof compared to the well-established superstars is far from solid, so in a skincare routine, we would rather add Bakuchiol next to retinol than straight up replace it. Unless you are a gimme-the-newest-shiny-thing-under-the-sun-type.

Phosphatidylcholine (Lecithin, Natural)

What-it-does: emulsifying

We don't have description for this ingredient yet.