Almond oil: This has soothing and emollient properties, which make it ideal for products used to treat and cleanse delicate and sensitive skin.

Jojoba oil: Liquid wax obtained from the seeds of the Simmondsia californica (S. chinensis). Used to soothe injuries, and as a cicatrising agent, it also provides protection from the sun's rays, in liniments for massages, etc. It has emollient, epithelizing, and protective properties.

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

Burdock: The depurative, purifying, and anti-seborrhoeic properties of Burdock are extremely useful for the normalisation of greasy skin and skin with impurities in particular.

Salvia: Salvia contains some substances of great interest for the cosmetics' industry with derma-purifying, emollient, anti-inflammatory, stimulating and toning properties.

Echinacea: This has cicatrizant, 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 used 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: The abstract of the concentrated juice of the Aloe plant has received great interest in recent years 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.

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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