Anti-ageing: the best natural ingredients to use

A cosmetic active ingredient is an essential ingredient used in our skincare products to provide certain benefits: anti-ageing, moisturising, purifying, lifting properties, and more. Active cosmetics are our allies in responding to the various problems encountered by our skin and hair. Natural in origin, concentrated and effective, our active ingredients come in a variety of forms.

We offer a wide range of cosmetic active ingredients that can be easily incorporated into our neutral bases and your home cosmetics recipes to create your own personalised care products.

In our concentrated serums, the active ingredients are already pre-dosed to provide the best concentration and, therefore, the best efficacy.

In our natural oils, whether that's our essential oils or plant oils, the natural active ingredients of plants are harnessed to care for your skin or hair.

Spilanthes, also known as 'plant Botox', is a plant native to Brazil and Africa that has remarkable firming and smoothing properties for the skin. It is rich in alkylamides. These compounds have a stimulating effect on collagen production. Spilanthes helps to improve skin firmness and elasticity, while reducing the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles. The combination of spilanthes and hyaluronic acid in a concentrated serum offers a number of combined benefits, including reducing fine lines and wrinkles, improving firmness and elasticity, and giving a 'Botox' effect.

Did you know that from the age of 50, we lose half of the hyaluronic acid naturally present in our skin, which is responsible for its suppleness and tone?

Hyaluronic acid retains up to 1,000 times its weight in water. So, particularly in the form of low-molecular-weight microspheres capable of acting deep down, it helps to keep skin supple, hydrated and plump, and even 'fills in' wrinkles.

It also stimulates collagen renewal and elastin fibres that keep the skin firm and elastic.

Also known as ascorbic acid, Vitamin C is best known for its energising and brightening effects, which helps the skin to glow. In terms of skin ageing, it is a powerful antioxidant. It is renowned for reducing dark spots and for stimulating collagen and elastin production.

Glycolic acid is now considered to be the most effective of the AHAs (Alpha Hydroxy Acids). And with good reason: with its low molecular size, it has a deep exfoliating effect that smooths skin texture and evens out the complexion. It is recommended for oily skin because it also regulates sebum production.

You may be familiar with retinol, a synthetic compound considered to be the ultimate anti-ageing active ingredient, thanks to its versatile effects.

With its anti-dark spot action, it ensures a radiant complexion and smoothed skin texture. A triple booster of collagen, elastin and hyaluronic acid, it is effective on many of the problems associated with skin ageing. On the other hand, it can be irritating for fine or dry skin, and should be used in the morning or evening. If you want to get a better and more complete action on the signs of ageing (spots, wrinkles, dull complexion), without irritating your skin or only using it once a day, there's a 100% natural alternative!

An essential active ingredient against that targets several signs of ageing. Retinal firms the skin, reduces wrinkles and fine lines, fades spots and rosacea, and brightens the complexion. It is also well-known for treating acne-prone skin, as it has anti-inflammatory properties, eliminates impurities, and purifies, evens out and regulates oily skin. Combined with mastic tree extract, which protects the degradation of retinoic acid naturally present in the skin, retinal's anti-ageing power is optimised!

Less well-known but just as natural and effective, these active ingredients will be a real bonus in your homemade anti-ageing preparations.