Long-trusted, Natural Skincare Ingredients
In traditional beauty rituals, the Japanese has always treated their skin both in and out, and very often by the same ingredients. These medicinal herbs, superfoods, and natural ingredients have been the ties between their skincare and wellness for generations.
They’re tried-and-tested efficacious, safe, and mostly edible. With these natural treasures, your skin will radiate today, tomorrow, and in the long run.
Ingredients are listed from plant-based to animal-derived, and in alphabetic order. Click on the each picture to learn more & find corresponding products.
- Plant-derived:
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Preventing sun spots & Whitening:
Derived from plant leaves such as lingonberries, it inhibits the enzyme activity during the synthesis of melanin pigment. It reduces the degree of skin darkening after sun exposure, prevents dark spots, and results in a brightening effect on the skin.
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Improving skin health & Moisturizing:
Extracted from avocado fruit harvested in Northern California, it is loaded with omega-3 fatty acids, vitamins, and many phytochemicals including chlorophyll and carotenoids. This absorbent plant oil enhances skin function and permeability, helps your skin stay smooth, moist, and healthy.
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Antioxidant & Antibacterial:
This fermented tea leaf extract contains the superstar ingredient called Catechins, which is a great antioxidant that protects skin against harmful environments and enhances skin elasticity with an anti-aging effect. Its anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial properties provide relief to irritated skin and acne.
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Promoting blood circulation:
Rich in vitamins and beta-carotene, a powerful antioxidant, Carrot Root Extract promotes blood circulation, increases cell turnover, and contributes to younger, healthier, and brighter skin.
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Smoothing & Refining skin texture:
Extracted from the peel of grapefruit, this essential oil is known for its uplifting aromatherapy properties. But that's not all. Rich in AHAs that increase cell renewal rate, it helps promote smoother, younger-looking skin when applied topically. It sinks deep down into the pores and stimulates the lymphatic system to encourage detoxification and purification. Packed with Vitamin C, it also helps to tighten and brighten the skin and limit excess oil.
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Healing acne & Preventing skin roughness:
The purple roots of this perennial plant in the Borage family, sweet in taste, have a rich and fascinating history. It has been employed in traditional Chinese medicine over thousands of years for its antimicrobial, antiviral, antifungal, and anti-inflammatory properties, topically to treat Inflammatory skin issues like burns, eczema, dermatitis, rashes, and acne, and internally to cool inflammation and detoxify. Incorporated into skincare, it soothes sensitive skin, helps to heal acne, prevents dryness and roughness, and restores the skin’s healthy balance.
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Oil-controlling, Whitening & Moisturizing:
Rich in tannins, the Rosehip Extract is an astringent that minimizes the appearance of pores by reducing sebum production and the build-up of dead skin cells in the pores. Containing high amounts of skin-renewing vitamin A, C, E, and antioxidants, it not only moisturizes but also whitens the skin by inhibiting melanin production.
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Moisturizing, Oil controlling & Firming:
Actually, it’s not an oil, but a less greasy, more stable wax ester, a component that our skin naturally produces. Rather than adding oil to the skin, it adds moisture where it's needed and reducing oil production where it’s in excess. Jojoba oil also helps to promote collagen synthesis, reduce fine lines and wrinkles. Loaded with antioxidants, Native Americans have been using it for its healing properties for centuries. It soothes irritations and speeds up skin healing, ideal for sensitive skin and beneficial for all.
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Anti-inflammatory & Whitening:
Licorice has been used in medicinal remedies for its soothing effects for thousands of years. Its root extract is filled with beneficial compounds that do everything from delivering antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects to help fade dark spots. It's soothing and conditioning, and it helps to reduce skin flaking and restore its suppleness. One of its star ingredients, Glabridin was first formulated into skincare in Japan. Mild and non-irritating, its whitening effect is 1000 times that of vitamin C. With the fact that only 1g can be extracted from every 500kg licorice root, it enjoys the name of “Whitening Gold”.
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Antibacterial, Suppressing pigmentation & Preventing wrinkles:
Known as the "Queen of Flowers" in traditional Chinese medicine, the roots have been used for centuries for their antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. It provides superior moisturizing, soothing, and antioxidant benefits for skin, known to boost skin clarity, suppresses pigmentation, brighten the complexion, prevents premature wrinkles and fine lines. It helps to activate the skin's natural defense mechanisms and help it to regenerate, thereby toning and firming the epidermis.
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Anti-aging & Whitening:
Extracted from Aloe Vera, East Asian arrowroot, and Chlorella, the plant placenta has a very high concentration of amino acids, proteins, and peptides that ignite skin’s natural collagen creation and cellular metabolism. It has the unique ability to penetrate deeper into the skin, stimulates cell activity, and maximizes the healing benefits of anti-aging ingredients. It deeply regenerates skin, provides long-lasting hydration, and dramatically repairs every visible skin flaw.
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Whitening & Moisturizing:
Known as the "mushroom of immortality", Reishi has been an Ayurveda favorite for centuries. Its benefits in skincare are vast. It fends off free radicals, interrupts the enzyme tyrosinase, and fades skin discoloration. It offers up serious anti-inflammatory properties, visibly reduces skin redness and irritation. It contains humectants that draw moisture, boosts hydration, and fights skin fine lines and wrinkles.
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Anti-Aging, Metabolism-boosting:
The star component from rice bran oil, γ-Oryzanol is a powerful yet gentle antioxidant with anti-aging, skin-lightening, and anti-inflammatory properties that helps to reduce skin sensitivity. It's highly absorbent to all layers of skin: reducing light-induced and age-related skin degradations such as melanin pigmentation, roughness, and wrinkles on the surface; stimulating the glands to balance oil production thus providing serious hydration without clogging the pores; and deep-down, promoting circulation to reduce puffiness and dark under-eye circles.
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Moisturizing & Anti-inflammatory:
This is another traditional Chinese herbal ingredient brimming with skincare benefits. Loaded with potent antioxidant and anti-inflammatory ingredients, it helps to deeply hydrate and brighten the skin tone, while alleviating redness and irritation. It’s also long been used for antimicrobial and antifungal properties.
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Reducing dark spots & Anti-aging:
A potent antioxidant, restoring, and soothing agent, Soy Extract improves the look of an uneven skin tone and visible signs of aging due to years of environmental exposure.
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- Animal-derived:
Collagen
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Reducing skin roughness & Moisturizing:
A protein that makes up 70% of our skin tissue, it forms the primary support structure of our skin. The topical use of hydrolyzed collagen peptides helps to improve skin hydration, build up the protective barrier, keep the skin soft, moist, and elastic.
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Honey
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Hydrating & Healing:
Raw honey is a natural beauty remedy packed with components beneficial for the skin. It not only is a natural humectant and exfoliator but also contains potent enzymes with antioxidant, antibacterial, and healing properties. It hydrates, conditions, softens and brightens skin, cleanses pores, heals acne, and fades scars.
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Royal Bee Jelly
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Anti-aging & Anti-bacterial:
Bathed in and fed on it, an ordinary larva grows into a queen bee that lives 40 times longer than others. Dubbed the “fountain of youth”, Royal Jelly s extraordinarily rich in vitamins, amino acids, enzymes, hormones, immune proteins, and the list goes on. With miraculous anti-aging and healing properties for skin and health, it's long been a secret to the French approach to effortless beauty.
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Squalane
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Reducing fine lines & Softening:
Our skin cells naturally produce Squalene but the amount declines with age. Squalane, a stabilized form of Squalene, is an excellent nutritive emollient that mimics as well as controls our skin’s natural oils. It is light and breathable, works on almost all skin types since it’s so closely related to what our bodies produce. Besides medically used to treat skin disorders and burns, as a cosmetic ingredient, it soothes the skin, boosts hydration, softens rough areas, reduces wrinkles, and results in a more vibrant and healthier look.
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