As part of the cosmetics mainly featured plant extracts and synthetic type of mineral oil. But what we know about the mushroom extract?
Mushrooms are now included in the advanced diet, early Scandinavians mushroom tinctures were trying to get rid of the tumor, and the complexity of their chemical composition never leave biochemists job.
Not bypassed fungi and cosmetology: their specific enzymes, surfactants and acids act powerful rare antioxidants skin may heal and protect from harmful bacteria, combat fatigue and suppress synthesis pigment melanin (those. prevent pigmentation of the skin ahead of time). How then can ignore this component and not add to the composition of the makeup ?!
Fungi in cosmetics are so many requirements. Yes, they are healing, but poorly understood. Components must be safe, many of which still remains controversial in the scientific community (for example, mushroom extract). However, two of the fungus have proved in the cosmetics market - Chaga and shiitake.
Unfortunately, a good "mushroom" of cosmetics a little, it is not always cheap. If you will be too lazy to read everything below, remember the three main properties of mushrooms extracts's Skin Drugs: slows aging (antioxidants there - car and small truck), soothes the skin and It lightens it. It's not marketing, and biochemistry. It should be at least superficially understand how pathogenic fungi manage to survive, when the environment in which they are parasites, trying every way to get rid of them.
Birch fungus (shelf fungus): former healer of cancer and current beautician
Known Perm inhabitants fungus that grows in the form of char buildup on the branches and trunk of a birch.
Fungus spores get even small cracks birch bark, die in the heat, so in the southern regions of birch mushroom can not be found. It was originally popular as a folk healer who gets rid of the cancer: Norwegians made him infusions, one time sold milled chaga in the United States of Alaska as a dietary supplement by cancer, but then stepped in and banned the FDA not only use such statements, but also the transport of interstate commercial purposes.
So far there is no reliable research results that Chaga helps to fight cancer cells. Actually, she got a huge popularity in America because of the doctor Maslennikov from the novel by Alexander Solzhenitsyn's "Cancer Ward", who treated their patients with a decoction of birch fungus.
Chaga bulk deserves a separate article, we will briefly mention the reasons why to him cosmetic is effective.
Feature fungus, as well as other pathogenic fungi - in large quantities of phenolic compounds which are potent antioxidants. And we know that antioxidants in cosmetics are important, they fight free radicals, resulting in our skin is not aging rapidly.
Where in chaga, birch fungus is harmful to so many antioxidants? To fungi to survive, they release antioxidants to destroy the hydrogen peroxide and to fight oxidative stress. Birch, in turn, also highlights the anti-oxidants to protect themselves from infection gnilevymi diseases. Pathogenic fungi, in other words, "stealing" that birch contributed to the struggle for their own health.
The chaga much rather rare in nature acid (oxalic, inonotovaya, agaricinic et al.) That accelerate the renewal, healing and restoration of the skin, as well as a little clarified it.
Branded chagovaya acid fungus normalizes metabolism, reduces fatigue of the organism and immune system circulates. For cosmetics is, however, not apply more to food additives. But what cosmetics to give them a healthy appearance of the skin face - it's a fact.
With such a chemical composition can survive frost and heat without substantial damage to the skin.
And yet Chaga has a moisturizing and cleansing effect of lignin and polysaccharides in the composition. And it should be said of betulin, it is something like a powerful natural antiseptic.
A high chromium concentration in the certain mushroom chaga makes brake for the aging process. Because Chrome - activator nearly all enzymatic processes in the skin.
Which means to pay attention
pressed serum Blithe Tundra Chaga. Like other serum its "seal" the cream is not necessary. The texture is dense, rich, but is distributed over the skin well and is absorbed quickly. In general, it is designed for mature skin (40+). But I liked the fact that dullness and eliminates puffiness almost immediately. About patches can be forgotten. According to the manufacturer, the fungus extract a part of it do not regret it. This is evident in the serum color, it looks like a boiled condensed milk. By the way, this is the color of the ground fungus.
I also wrote a review of the lotion Mega-mushroom Relief & Resilience from Origins. It was the first of my acquaintance with "mushroom" cosmetics. It moisturizes just fine, no complaints. For sensitive skin - the most it. The smell of raw potatoes - can be forgiven. But the cost of it - no. Who cares - you can read the review here.
Shiitake: former endocrinologist and the current maker of porcelain geishas persons
The Japanese are crazy about this fungus, he composed legends. They say that the soup of shiitake son of the Japanese emperor was cured of diabetes.
In the 80th the fungus began to use in cosmetics. Japanese brand Menard was the first one produced cosmetics with extracts of shiitake. In the 2000s, Japanese mushroom cosmetics start flooding the shelves of Western shops.
Geisha reaching effect porcelain faces with masks of shiitake: light skin, smooth and matte shades. This result was achieved thanks to the kojic acid in the composition of the fungus, it blocks the tyrosinase - the enzyme, because of which, in fact, in our country and there is pigmentation.
Unfortunately, the funds from the shiitake extract incredibly small market. There are, for example, serum from the American brand OLO, but they need to be ordered on the official website and are obscenely expensive. A night mask from Avon collaboration and K-Beauty "Magic mushrooms" just about anything. Effect zero as the concentration of the mushrooms themselves in the composition.
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