Why Plant stem cells are useful in cosmetics?

Plant stem cells are an important issue in cosmetics today.

What is a stem cell?

Stem cells are neutral cells, they are the first cells in the body. Their role is to create cells in the human body. They are mainly found in the skin and bone marrow. They are undifferentiated.

Plants also have stem cells, just like the human body. These differentiate according to their environment to form a part of the plant, such as a flower, leaf or stem.

What is their relationship with cosmetics?

Plant stem cells, taken from the heart of plants, are rare cells with remarkable properties. Due to their valuable properties, plant stem cells are of great interest in cosmetics.

Therefore, the unique properties of these plant stem cells are a recent area of research interest.

This allows them to focus on the development of new cosmetic products and how these extracts will act on our skin.

How are they used?

Plant stem cells are cosmetic ingredients extracted from plants by biotechnology. They are not medicine, as they do not replace ageing cells with young cells, nor do they stimulate stem cells. Cosmetics do not contain living stem cells, but only dead plant stem cells, which obviously cannot act in the same way as living stem cells.

Cosmetics contain mostly stem cell extracts and not the whole cells. The benefits for the skin are therefore not related to genetic interference mechanisms, but are due to the content of antioxidants and other phytochemicals in these extracts.

However, the role of cosmetics is to protect the microenvironment in which the stem cells are housed.

Stem cells have an overall effect on the quality of the skin. Thus, the objective of cosmetics is to protect them, to improve their environment but also to help them restore their ability to divide properly.

What is the future of plant stem cells in cosmetics?

Thanks to stem cell metabolism, researchers can extract tissues from plants. The plant kingdom has provided an inexhaustible source of medicinal plants that were originally used in their raw form as herbal ointments and powders.

Nature has provided many remedies to care for the skin, so researchers are focusing on the ability of plants to act on humans.

Stem cell technology is therefore promising for stem cell cosmetics, which use plant extracts to make the skin more beautiful.

Cosmetics will increasingly use them to make use of natural resources.

Our Revitalising Eye Cream also contains Plan Stem Cells, created from natural ingredients and most importantly is not tested on animals.

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