Not only are they good for your health, herbs are good for your skin:
They’ve always been the wonder-workers of folklore, but now herb extracts are the latest magical ingredient in high-tech skincare.
For many, the idea that a face cream is made with natural, botanical or organic ingredients has great appeal.
But, until recently, these creams were seen as little more than nice skin-conditioners.
Natural high: Herbs have become big business
If you wanted active anti-ageing ingredients, that meant the latest high-tech compounds, the ceramides and peptides derived from a test-tube rather than a living plant.
‘Customers no longer have to make a decision between something that works and something that’s natural,’ says Georgie Cleeve, founder of new British skincare brand, Oskia, which has just launched at Liberty.
‘We can pinpoint compounds that we need and extract them from natural ingredients, for maximum effectiveness.’
That herbs and spices are pharmacologically active is beyond dispute; there are compounds within them that have long established effects. For example, lavender is well-known for inducing drowsiness.
‘Now science is proving what the herbalists would say they knew all along: that herbs, plants and spices can offer genuine long-term benefits for skincare’
Now thanks to advances in technology, skincare scientists are more easily able to identify and remove these active extracts and use them in anti-ageing face creams that produce results.
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