Antarcticine as cosmetic ingredient for anti-aging products

This amazing cosmetic ingredient has a couple of very beneficial effects on the skin, and can be summarized as follows:

• Preventing dryness and increasing moisture in the skin
• Protect the skin from cold weather
• Actively binds to human fibroblast and increases skin cell formation
• Shows a healing effect on skin
• Increase the production of collagen
• Increase of elastin formation
• Reduce wrinkles

Antarcticine is used in the following products: Rejuvenating Serum Rejuvenating Night Cream Rejuvenating Eye Cream

Antarcticine is a new cosmetic ingredient and Dermaxime was one of the first cosmetic companies in the world to realize the huge importance it has on fighting aging and maintaining a young looking skin.

Preventing dryness and increasing moisture in the skin

When tests were done to check the effect it has on the hydration and moisture of the skin, the results were impressive, showing improvement within 4 hours after application.

It was showed that it has a superior moisturizing action to that of other creams and the moisture content in the skin improved with 45%.

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Protecting the skin from cold weather

During tests it was shown that this ingredient has amazing properties in preventing damage and dryness to the skin from cold weather. This “cryoprotective” property is what fish normally have, but this simple molecule showed that it is able to perform its action wonderfully in protecting against cold weather and the resultant dryness and roughness.

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Actively binds to human fibroblast and increases skin cell formation

When tested, Antarcticine showed that it promotes the growth of keratinocytes by 25% and is also extremely effective in binding it to human skin fibroblast.

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Shows a healing effect on skin

The healing effect that it has was clearly demonstrated in the tests conducted and excellent results could be detected within 3 days.

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Increase the production of collagen

When clinical tests were performed, there was an increase in Collagen type I of 52% within 7 days and 100% within 15 days – whereas Collagen type IV was 6% after 7 days and 55% within 15 days.

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Increased elastin formation

As we age, elastin decreases in the skin, but with this ingredient, even elastin production was boosted by 4% within 15 days.

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Reduce wrinkles

Using sophisticated measuring techniques, skin wrinkle depth was shown to have decreased by 30% after using it for 15 days, results showed a further decreased to 50% after 30 days of use. The average reduction in wrinkle depth was 44% after a 30-day period.

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This image shows skin topography at the initial stage (left) and after 30 days (right)

Safety

Various toxicity tests, as well as allergy and irritant tests were conducted, but this ingredient showed no toxicity of any sort, and also proved to be non-irritant.