Shea butter: A vegetable substance extracted from Butyrosperum parkii kotschy nuts, with a high soap content; it has a protective effect and is used as a treatment against external aggression; it is particularly suitable for dry, chafed and sensitive skin. It also has toning, anti-age and anti-stretch mark properties.

Vitamin E acetate: Vitamin E has excellent vessel-protective and natural antioxidant properties.

Horsetail: This has diuretic, haemostatic, re-mineralising, astringent and elasticising properties. From a dermatological point of view, Horsetail preparations have been effective in the treatment of sores, varicose ulcers, eczemas, haemorrhoids and also improve the elasticity of the skin. Horsetail has been used as a skin toning and elasticising agent from as far back as the early twentieth-century, and it was recently certified as useful in the adjuvant treatment of cutaneous stretch marks.

Ginseng: This has a revitalizing and stimulating function of the coetaneous cells, as well as a general stimulating and tonic effect. Suitable for sensitive and dry skin that has lost its elasticity and tone, or also for reddened skin, with couperose, and evident vessel fragility.

Echinacea: This has cicatrising, tonic and anti-stretch mark properties. Echinacea was used by the American Indians to heal wounds; this led to the widespread use of tinctures and extracts that are known today as valid cicatrizants. Apart from the undisputed results obtained, Echinacea has quite a complex action, which is still being studied. Nevertheless it does seem that the active principle of Echinacea slows the spread of pathogenic germs in tissue, or triggers a mechanism of defence against the above germs and at the same time activates mechanisms that regenerate the tissue.

Aloe vera: There has been great interest in recent years in the abstract of the concentrated juice of the Aloe plant for cosmetic use after experiments proved its screening power against erythematous UVB radiation.
As well as acting as a filter, the abstract of Aloe has a positive palliative and cicatrizant function.

Royal jelly: The secret of the bees. Food for the queen. It is rich in B-group vitamins, in particular pantothenic acid (B5) and pyridoxine (B6). Royal jelly also contains minerals and vitamins A, C, D, and E, enzymes, hormones and 18 amino acids. It is excellent for stimulating the immune system. It has a significant nourishing action and is used to treat dry and old skin in particularly.

Fucogel (Biosaccharide gum-1): With natural polysaccharides (from corn and soya). It is an excellent long-term moisturizing agent. It leaves the skin smooth with the right level of moisture. It is fucose rich, which makes it suitable for hypersensitive and delicate skin. Strict scientific tests have shown that Fucogel traps and transports molecules of water in the skin, increasing the level of moisture by 44% in one hour, 79% in three hours and keeping it at a level of 29% for as long as eight hours after the application.

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