Description

Carthamus Tinctorius Callus Extract is derived from the callus tissue of the safflower plant (Carthamus tinctorius). This extract is known for its potential benefits in skin care due to its rich content of bioactive compounds that may help in reducing inflammation, providing hydration, and offering antioxidant protection.

Chemical Composition and Structure:

Flavonoids: Includes compounds like quercetin and cyanidin, which are known for their antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties.
Phenolic Compounds: Contains caffeic acid and ferulic acid, which provide antioxidant protection and reduce inflammation.
Essential Fatty Acids: Rich in linoleic acid, which supports the skin’s barrier function and maintains hydration.
Vitamins: May include vitamin E, which helps protect the skin from oxidative damage and supports overall skin health.

Physical Properties:

Appearance: Typically a liquid or powder, depending on the extraction method.
Odor: Mild, characteristic of safflower.
Consistency: Can range from a fine powder to a fluid, depending on concentration and processing.

Production Process:

Extraction: The callus tissue of Carthamus tinctorius is processed to extract active compounds. Methods can include solvent extraction or other advanced techniques.
Purification: The extract is purified to remove impurities and residual solvents, often through filtration or centrifugation.
Formulation: The purified extract is incorporated into skin care and cosmetic products to enhance their efficacy.

Applications:

Cosmetics: Used in creams, serums, and lotions for its antioxidant and anti-inflammatory benefits. Helps improve skin texture and reduce signs of aging.
Skin Care: Provides hydration, soothes irritated skin, and helps even out skin tone. Contributes to a radiant and youthful complexion.
Hair Care: Added to shampoos and conditioners to nourish and strengthen hair, promoting healthier and shinier locks.

Environmental and Safety Considerations:

Generally regarded as safe for topical application, however, like all extracts, it should be used in accordance with established guidelines to avoid potential allergic reactions or skin irritations. People with allergies or very sensitive skin should be careful. It is important to ensure that the extract is sustainably sourced and free from harmful chemicals.

INCI Functions:


Antimicrobial agent. This ingredient is able to suppress or inhibit the growth and replication of a broad spectrum of microorganisms such as bacteria, fungi and viruses by making the stratum corneum temporarily bactericidal and fungicidal.

Antioxidant agent. Ingredient that counteracts oxidative stress and prevents cell damage. Free radicals, pathological inflammatory processes, reactive nitrogen species and reactive oxygen species are responsible for the ageing process and many diseases caused by oxidation.

Hair conditioning agent. A significant number of ingredients with specific and targeted purposes may co-exist in hair shampoo formulations: cleansers, conditioners, thickeners, matting agents, sequestering agents, fragrances, preservatives, special additives. However, the indispensable ingredients are the cleansers and conditioners as they are necessary and sufficient for hair cleansing and manageability. The others act as commercial and non-essential auxiliaries such as: appearance, fragrance, colouring, etc. Hair conditioning agents have the task of increasing shine, manageability and volume, and reducing static electricity, especially after treatments such as colouring, ironing, waving, drying and brushing. They are, in practice, dispersants that may contain cationic surfactants, thickeners, emollients, polymers. The typology of hair conditioning agents includes: intensive conditioners, instant conditioners, thickening conditioners, drying conditioners. They can perform their task generally accompanied by other different ingredients.

Humectant. Hygroscopic compound used to minimise water loss in the skin and to prevent it from drying out by facilitating faster and greater absorption of water into the stratum corneum of the epidermis. The epidermis is the most superficial of the three layers that make up human skin (epidermis, dermis and hypodermis) and is the layer that maintains hydration in all three layers. In turn, the epidermis is composed of five layers: horny, the most superficial, granular, spinous, shiny, and basal. Humectants have the ability to retain the water they attract from the air in the stratum corneum and have the function of moisturising the skin. They are best used before emollients, which are oil-based.

Skin protectant. It creates a protective barrier on the skin to defend it from harmful substances, irritants, allergens, pathogens that can cause various inflammatory conditions. These products can also improve the natural skin barrier and in most cases more than one is needed to achieve an effective result.
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CAS: 223749-52-8 EC number 607-037-7