Filabé of Switzerland Aging Skin

Name: Aging Skin
Brand: Filabé of Switzerland

A exfoliator with 5 ingredients.

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Overview

What it is

Exfoliator with 5 ingredients

Cool Features

It is vegan, cruelty-free, fungal acne (malassezia) safe, and reef safe

Suited For

It has ingredients that are good for dry skin and scar healing

Free From

It doesn't contain any harsh alcohols, common allergens, fragrances, oils, parabens, silicones or sulfates

Fun facts

Filabé of Switzerland is from Switzerland.

We independently verify ingredients and our claims are backed by peer-reviewed research. Does this product need an update? Let us know.

What's inside

Ingredients List

3

1

Glycerin

Humectant

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Lecithin

Emollient

Isomalt

Humectant

Malus Domestica Fruit Cell Culture Extract

Skin Conditioning

Argania Spinosa Callus Culture Extract

Skin Conditioning

Glycerin, Lecithin, Isomalt, Malus Domestica Fruit Cell Culture Extract, Argania Spinosa Callus Culture Extract

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Benefits

Ingredients Explained

Glycerin

Humectant, Skin Conditioning, Skin Protecting

Glycerin (or glycerol) is a compound naturally found in your skin. It's a powerhouse humectant that pulls water into the stratum corneum.

Topically, glycerin does several things at once:

Your skin makes glycerin on its own (mostly from sebaceous oil breakdown) and shuttles it to your outermost layer of skin, or your epidermis, via aquaporin-3.

Aquaporin-3 is a transporter that is essential for normal skin hydration, elasticity, and repair. Interestingly, mice lacking in AQP3 have dry and less elastic skin that can be fully corrected with glycerin.

This ingredient is non-irritating, plays well with almost every ingredient, and works across all skin types. Typical use is anywhere between 3-10% but can go up to 79% in some leave-on products.

Just know very high concentrations (>40%) can feel tacky in low humidity.

Glycerin is the name for this ingredient in American English. British English uses Glycerol/Glycerine.

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Lecithin

Emollient, Emulsifying, Skin Conditioning

Lecithin is a term for a group of substances found in the cell membranes of plants, animals, and humans. They are made up of phospholipids.

Thanks to its amphiphilic structure (water-loving head and oil-loving tail), it is a true multitasker:

It plays well with most ingredients and is typically used at 0.1-1%. However, concentrations up to 50% have been reported in moisturizers.

Depending on the source of this ingredient, lecithin may not be fungal acne safe. This is because some sources of lecithin come from soybean oil, which may feed the malassezia yeast that causes fungal acne.

We recommend reaching out to the brand you are purchasing from to inquire about the source of their lecithin.

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Isomalt

Humectant

We don't have a description for Isomalt yet.

Malus Domestica Fruit Cell Culture Extract

Skin Conditioning

This ingredient comes from a rare Swiss apple known as Uttwiler Spätlauber. It is produced from the cell cultures of the apple and not the fruit itself.

According to manufacturer studies, this ingredient has demonstrated the following benefits:

Visible anti-wrinkle effect around the eye area (in vivo)
Enhanced colony-forming efficiency of epidermal stem cells (in vitro)
Improved ability of skin cells to regenerate and build new tissues in a 3D epidermis model (in vitro)
Increased skin density (in vitro)
Boosted vitality of epidermal stem cells (in vitro)
Reversal of cellular aging signs in fibroblasts (in vitro)