Yeast beta glucan efficacy
Beta-glucan is a bioactive macromolecular biopolysaccharide. It not only has multiple skin care effects, but also has a good moisturizing effect. It frequently appears in moisturizing agents of repair products.
There are many products on the market that contain beta-glucan. Most of our common skin care products featuring oat extract and yeast extract are active ingredients of beta-glucan. At present, the vast majority of commercial products using β-glucan are mid-to-high-end products or products for special groups (skin care products for infants or pregnant women), which also reflects the important position of β-glucan in the field of functional raw materials .
Biopolysaccharides such as β-glucan are different from most moisturizing agents. They have good film-forming properties, which can reduce the evaporation of water on the skin surface, so that the water can diffuse from the basal tissue to the stratum corneum, inducing further hydration of the stratum corneum, and thus promotes hydration. to emollient effect. The application of beta-glucan in skin care products and moisturizers dates back to 1996. German fragrance company Deweilon used its patented technology to extract oat beta-glucan as a matrix for personal care products.
Beta-glucan has also been proven to effectively enhance the induction of all macrophages in the human body, and has a driving effect on Langerhans cells in the skin. It can play a role in skin defense and repair, and improve dermal collagen and elastin. The ability to synthesize protein, so that wrinkles can be alleviated. Helps the body's tissue structure to regenerate, rebuild, repair, and promote wound healing. It has been clinically proven that β-1,3/-1,6-glucan used on the skin can increase skin elasticity, make the skin soft and white, improve the synthesis of collagen and elastic cellulose, supply a variety of cell growth factors, Makes wrinkles disappear, pigmentation disappears, skin is cleansed, and sensitivities are repaired. Enhance skin resistance, arouse the skin's "scavenger" self-cleaning function, and show healthy skin beauty.
In addition, β-glucan can also effectively scavenge free radicals and resist UV damage, thus playing multiple functions such as anti-aging and sun protection. At the same time, it has good percutaneous penetration function. In 2005, Dr. Maik Redmind of Edmonton, Canada and others conducted a study on the penetration of 0.5% β-glucan solution in the human abdomen and found that although β-glucan Its molecular weight is relatively large, but it can enter the epidermis and dermis through the intercellular space, which provides a new option for non-injectable natural treatment of skin wrinkles.
