It is called Blue Gold, and for good reason: this little alga called Spirulina is a mine of benefits.
Discovered in 1964 in Chad by a team of scientific researchers, spirulina revealed exceptional virtues: scientists were indeed astonished that the populations who harvested a microalgae on the surface of the pools around Lake Chad have health, strength, an extraordinary vitality, despite a very poor agricultural environment.
Spirulina: more than 220 useful molecules for the skin!
Their analyzes were formal. Spirulina contains more than 220 molecules useful for the skin: amino acids, antioxidant trace elements, minerals, vitamins, nucleic acids (components of DNA), proteins, essential fatty acids ...
So many assets that benefit those who consume it on the plate and which certain cosmetic laboratories have today introduced in creams or sera to make vitality and tonicity to the skin.
Our recommendations of beauty products with spirulina for a skin at the top.
- Intensive Spirulina Serum, Institut Esthederm: a shot of energy
In this 50% concentrated serum, the brand introduced the "totum" of the plant, ie the whole of the spirulina and not selected extracts.
Explanation: the bioavailability of the plant is much greater. All its assets are better assimilated by the dermis and the epidermis and capitalize their effects. They combine the redensifying effect of proteins by boosting the production of elastic fibers, protective effects (antioxidants), energizing (vitamins), nourishing (fatty acids) while its carbohydrates (rahmnose, glycogen) hydration to the skin.
Results: from the first week the complexion is clearer and in a few weeks traces of fatigue have disappeared. The face is more tonic, smoother, firmer. To apply morning and evening and to follow for even more results and especially if the skin is dry, by a nourishing cream, rich also of spirulina.
- Serum in Cream, Skin Best, Biotherm: two anti fatigue algae
This amazing texture, "serum in cream" of unprecedented voluptuousness, encloses two seaweed extracts that combine their effects to fight the first signs of age. Spirulina stimulates cell metabolism, protects them from the deleterious effects of UVA, while extracts of H.Pluvialis helps protect keratinocytes by stimulating the anti-radical and protective properties of skin cells.
In the end in a few days, the expressions of tiredness or tensions fade, the brilliance returns.
- Rich Cream Spirulina Liftante Rides, Ella Baché: a regenerating patch
Triple performance for this unusual formula: a vegetable patch contains pastel oil phytosterols, fatty acids, shea butter to relieve mature skin or all those sensitized by aggressions: cold, wind, pollution, UV. A combination of four anti-aging active agents (spirulina, hyaluronic acid, vitamin C, tripeptides of proteins) provide a convincing anti-wrinkle action, and a microgel texture, combined with an oil-in-water emulsion, immediately gives a sensation of freshness and comfort.
- Sisleÿa Body Firming Concentrate, Sisley: a firming silhouette
On the body also Spirulina has obvious benefits. This concentrate of 19 plant active ingredients acts on the three major players of firmness: elastin, collagen and glycosaminoglycans, in zones affected by wilting (internal face of the thighs, arms, belly, buttocks, décolleté ...).
Spirulina, nourishing and revitalizing properties, are added in a gentle and creamy formula, tensor active ingredients (extracts of oats) of the active ingredients (caffeine, red vine) of the active ingredients (shea butter) and essential oils lavender and marjoram soothing and invigorating for a flagrant tightening in less than a month.
* Thanks to Isabelle Benoit, Director of Scientific Innovation Esthederm, to Valérie Rigoni Marketing Director Ella Baché.
