here are the 3 best anti-aging active ingredients to use in your certified treatments, according to an expert

At a time when consumers are increasingly attentive to what is contained in the formulas of their cosmetics, the decryptions of labels which sift through the ingredient lists of our cosmetics carried out by UFC Que-Choisir, 60 Million consumers or the Yuka application, push some to turn to organic cosmetics to use fewer chemicals on their skin. But these convictions in terms of formulation still raise questions, particularly in the very specific area of anti-agingwhere the beginnings of organic cosmetics have left misleading memories as to their efficiency current.

Likewise, if we now know well the most effective anti-aging active ingredients of conventional cosmetics, it is difficult to define those of organic cosmetics. As a result, we also sometimes delay switching to certified organic facial care, because we fear having to part with our favorites. What is it really ? What are the most effective anti-aging active ingredients to look for in your organic anti-aging care ? Are they more or less effective than those of serums, creams and other conventional anti-aging treatments? We met Laurence Rabaud, technical director in Innovation Research and Development for the Léa Nature and Eau thermale Jonzac Laboratory, who answered us.

Organic cosmetics: certified anti-wrinkle active ingredients that are no less effective

Say goodbye to preconceived ideas, as the expert reminds us, organic anti-aging active ingredients, “these will ultimately be anti-aging active ingredients”. There is therefore no reduced efficiency due to any certification. Among the best anti-wrinkle active ingredients available in certified organic facial care, it is possible to find reference molecules that can go hand in hand with organic certification.

There are, in fact, “statutory molecules that have proven themselves” in organic facial care with anti-aging aims, assures the expert from Laboratoire Léa Nature. Contrary to what we sometimes think at first glance, some are known to the general public and are available in organic cosmetics, as in traditional cosmetics.

These 2 reference anti-aging molecules are also the best in organic cosmetics!

We asked the organic cosmetics expert to list the best anti-aging active ingredients available in certified anti-wrinkle facial care. Among them, she cites 2 ultra-popular molecules in the field of anti-aging:

• vitamin C : if previously it was one of the active ingredients reserved for traditional cosmetics, because more than 8 years ago, it “was mainly of synthetic origin” and therefore not authorized organically, it is now possible to use it in the formulations of organic facial care. The expert assures: “It is indeed an anti-aging active ingredient that I would recommend, and which we also use at Eau thermale Jonzac”.

• hyaluronic acid : is another flagship molecule in anti-aging care that can be found in organic care and which is a “interesting active ingredient for anti-aging” in organic cosmetics according to the expert. She explains that organic cosmetics brands can use “natural origins”with a molecule sometimes “from biotechnology”not necessarily from a plant source.

This plant extract, underrated in the field of anti-aging, is one of the best in organic cosmetics

As the expert explains, there are also many possible organic plant extracts, more or less effective, and there are also vegetable oils which may be of interest, particularly in the field of anti-wrinkle. If some are in fact not very effective, others are very effective, however, like the 3rd organic anti-aging active ingredient that the expert recommends:

• centella asiatica (or tiger grass): it is an active ingredient derived from plants which is “a sure value too” according to an expert, and particularly in the field of anti-aging – although it is rarely used in this way – because of its restorative properties. “We use it more in healing ranges but in anti-aging it works”assures the expert, since the active ingredient also slows down the aging of the skin by addressing the problem at the source, repairing the skin so that it does not mark or become damaged.

This reference anti-aging active ingredient that you will not find in an organic treatment

There is indeed a very effective anti-aging molecule that you will not find in organic cosmetics according to the expert and it is retinol. For what ? Because “everything that is retinol is of synthetic origin”, underlines the expert. It is therefore a molecule which cannot obtain Cosmos certification (organic cosmetics) as it recalls.

In addition to this, the expert from Laboratoire Léa Nature also explains that retinol is an anti-aging molecule which “is not always compatible with the approach of certain brands”like Eau thermale Jonzac, which positions itself as an organic alternative to pharmacy treatments, and which prefers to avoid this molecule anyway due to its “irritant effect”.

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