How To Use Cistanche For Beauty And Skincare

Cistanche is the dried fleshy stem with scaly leaves of Cistanche Deserticola or Cistanche tubulosa, a plant of the family Cistanache. It is a valuable tonic herb with medicinal and edible values, and has been used as a tribute in history.

Modern pharmacological research has found that Cistanche contains a rich chemical composition, with the main components containing not only phenylethanoid glycosides, cyclic enol ether terpenes and their glycosides, sugars, volatile components, but also amino acids and trace elements.

Cistanche has a wide range of pharmacological effects, such as anti-aging, anti-dementia, anti-fatigue, laxative, immunomodulatory, hepatoprotective, and reproductive improvement, etc. The more central pharmacological mechanisms among these effects are antioxidant and anti-inflammatory mechanisms.

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Cistanche is not only a medicinal herb for food and health care but also can be used for beauty care.

In recent years, the development and application of Cistanche in the field of cosmetics has been gradually developed, and relevant scientific studies have shown that it has good effects in whitening, anti-aging, sunscreen, anti-inflammatory, moisturizing and anti-bacterial.

I. Whitening function of Cistanche

Compounds containing benzene ring or phenolic hydroxyl structure have a potential whitening effect, such as arbutin, a commonly used whitening agent, which can play a whitening role by inhibiting the activity of tyrosinase.

Phenylethanol glycoside, the main active ingredient of Cistanche, is a class of natural glycosides, and research has found that total phenylethanoid glycoside can inhibit tyrosinase activity and melanin production in human epidermal melanocytes, which has the effect of a whitening agent.

II. Anti-aging function of Cistanche

Aging is the most basic natural law in the biological world, and the aging of the skin and the aging of the body proceed simultaneously. The effect of Chinese herbal medicine in delaying skin aging is mainly reflected in scavenging free radicals and repairing collagen.

It was found that Cistanche extract can scavenge free radicals and has antioxidant ability. Meanwhile, Cistanche extract can significantly reduce the expression level of collagenase and elastase mRNA and inhibit the activity of collagenase, elastase and hyaluronidase, which has the effect of delaying skin aging.

III. Sun Protect function of Cistanche

With the continuous research on skin damage, people's awareness of sun protection has been increasing, and even the joke of "raising children does not prevent aging, but sun protection does" has arisen. Broad-spectrum, safe and natural plant sunscreens have become a hot spot for sunscreen research.

It has been found that phenylethanol glycosides, the main active ingredient of Cistanche, has strong absorption at 280-380 nm and can be used as a natural sunscreen to alleviate the damage of UV rays on the skin. Sunscreens with phenylethanol glycosides added at 1% or 2% have no adverse effects and have good stability and photoprotection.

The phenylethanol glycoside component of Cistanche can not only absorb UV rays, but also has antioxidant, repair DNA damage and reduce apoptosis, which has good application value in sunscreen cosmetics.

IV. Moisturizing

Moisturizing is the basic requirement of skincare and an important condition to ensure healthy skin and slow down aging. When the moisture content of the stratum corneum is maintained at 10% to 20%, the skin is in the most ideal physiological state, soft, plump, bright, and elastic. When the water content of the stratum corneum is lower than 10%, the skin condition becomes worse, dry and rough, and the skin becomes dull and wrinkled after a long time. By using topical moisturizing cosmetics, the water content of the stratum corneum can be increased, water loss can be reduced, and the normal function of the skin barrier can be maintained. Studies have shown that Cistanche extract has the excellent water-holding ability, and the skin can significantly reduce the evaporation of water after being coated with 30% Cistanche alcohol extract, which can be used in moisturizing cosmetics. Cistanche contains mannitol, betaine, and allantoin, which are also classic moisturizing ingredients, suggesting that Cistanche possesses excellent moisturizing properties.

V. Antibacterial

Cosmetics are rich in nutrients such as oil, water and protein, which are suitable for the growth and reproduction of microorganisms. Therefore, a certain amount of preservatives need to be added to cosmetics to prevent spoilage. Cistanche has a good antibacterial effect. It was found that Cistanche polysaccharide has a certain inhibitory effect on the growth of Tetrahymena, Escherichia coli, Bacillus subtilis, Brewer's yeast and Penicillium oryzae, and Cistanche aqueous decoction also has a significant inhibitory effect on Staphylococcus aureus. As a valuable herbal medicine for prolonging life and improving beauty, Cistanches has many beauty benefits. However, it should be noted that the main active ingredients of Cistanches are greatly influenced by the species and origin, and attention should also be paid to its quality identification and quality standards.