The strongest natural antioxidant - astaxanthin

Dec 21
09:20

2012

David Yvon

David Yvon

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In marine skincare ingredients, the most widely used is none other than seaweed. As one of the oldest biological, seaweed has a very strong vitality. It is rich in minerals and vitamins, can also promote tissue regeneration to bring powerful moisturizing effect to the skin, increase cell viability.

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In hundreds of years ago,The strongest natural antioxidant - astaxanthin Articles the Oriental women had been found that the cosmetic effect of the seaweed, they crushed and cooked seaweed then coating in face and head to make the skin fit, make hair shiny. In recent years, with the seaweed to protect the skin further explore, you can see the shadow of algae in moisturizing or whitening, anti-aging field.

From the name of view it is easy to misunderstand astaxanthin from shrimp ingredients, in fact, it is produced by several algae and plankton. According to astaxanthin suppliers, natural astaxanthin is the most powerful antioxidants ever discovered in nature, the raw materials of many skin care products in recent years. At present, most of the natural astaxanthin extract from haematococcus pluvialis, and astaxanthin content in haematococcus pluvialis is 1.5% to 3.0%, as natural astaxanthin concentrated product.

Haematococcus pluvialis often in the form of a blood-red shell, attached to the edge of water altar or the sea periodic Repulse, its life course is roughly divided into three stages: dormant stage red, green swimming stage, followed by a red dormant stage. It can be seen haematococcus pluvialis has been found long time ago. But what is the use of haematococcus pluvialis? Scientists specializing haematococcus pluvialis do an experiment: two groups of salmon on a different environment, in nurture haematococcus pluvialis environment, salmon life twice than ordinary waters; use shrimp, crab do the experiment, the result is still the same as the former. This phenomenon make scientists very surprised, they began to study the red substance haematococcus pluvialis, the study found that this substance has a super antioxidant capacity; Japanese life expectancy is longer than the life of the people in most countries in the world , one of the reasons, just as they often eat algae containing astaxanthin.

End of the 20th century, the natural astaxanthin in haematococcus pluvialis concerned by more countries of the biosphere, after years of research, scientists have discovered the antioxidant capacity of natural astaxanthin in haematococcus pluvialis, exceed any species known in the world, and is completely non-toxic and harmless, so some enterprises have a strong research capacity, began to research to put haematococcus pluvialis in health care products, cosmetic raw material and food. As we all know, cause the people skin aging substance is "radical" and want to "anti-oxidation, anti-aging", the points is the free radical scavenging. The research results show that haematococcus pluvialis the scavenging ability of free radical is 1000 times than coenzyme Q10, 10 times than natural ²-carotene, 17 times than grape seed, 200 times than rosecranine, 150 times than OPC, 200 times than tea phenol, 10 times than natural ²-carotene, become the most popular antioxidants on the market.

Source:http://www.cosprm.com