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For those of you who love to explore cosmetic formulations, probably more than once had to meet in the media anti-wrinkle agents, anti-inflammatory action. And surely you were wondering - what role are they playing? Indeed, in the minds of most people, the inflammation -
this is what happens when the skin becomes infected, or if there is an allergy. And all are more or less familiar signs of inflammation - swelling, redness, abscess.
However, the classical picture of inflammation does not reflect the whole variety of forms of this process. Recently, the attention of scientists who study the problems of aging skin, focused on the latent chronic inflammation, which is, in our skin occurs much more often than we think.
First of all, let's talk about what a general inflammation in the broadest sense of the word. Imagine a peaceful city - your body - which has an army of its defenders - the immune system. When there is an attack, the army of idle, incurring put her guards and conducting exercises.
When the event of an attack, such as the invasion of microorganisms, the army quickly to repel the attacks, without disturbing residents. This picture is consistent with the normal operation of the immune system in the absence of pathology.
A good immune system - is the one job that we do not notice. Now imagine a situation where the army or too aggressive, or too many of the enemy in case of invasion across the city are flying missiles, destroying the homes of civilians.
This is - an analogue of inflammation or immune response, out-of-control. Harm from such "protectors" at times no less than by the enemy. And finally, imagine the army, which is to reflect the attack, did not want to lay down their arms and continued to fire intermittently and venturing clashes with the population.
An outside observer, the city may seem calm and peaceful, but to live there safe. This is - a chronic inflammation. When inflammation, immune system cells and tissues in which inflammation develops (in this case, the skin) begin to produce many substances that they need or to communicate with other cells, or to carry out combat operations against the enemy.
Most of these substances are required to temporarily alter the 'landscape', to make it more convenient for "military operations." In particular, increased vascular permeability, so that the plasma and the immune cells to reach the tissue formed blood stagnation that substances inflammation does not spread throughout the bloodstream, and remained at the site of inflammation, activation of enzymes that destroy tissue to cells was easier to lay their way.
In the case of acute inflammation it all happens quickly and strongly - is clearly visible swelling, redness, softening around the hearth inflammation, etc. In chronic inflammation of the external symptoms may not be, or they can be inconspicuous.
Previously scientists and physicians interested in chronic inflammation occurring in various diseases. Now, however, when the methods to detect the slightest changes in the skin, it became clear that a completely healthy skin often develop inflammation, invisible to the eye.
This inflammation occurs for many reasons - bad cosmetics, microbes, ultraviolet radiation, toxins in water and air, particles of dust and sand, cold and others. In young skin all usually ends with the removal of damage or removal of the intruder, but the older a person becomes the longer its smoldering inflammation in the skin.
Chronic inflammation, as well as any inflammation, accompanied by changes in "landscape" fabric. But now all these changes to anything good does not. Under the influence of agents of inflammation vary vessels. Blood circulation, and red blood cells out of the blood vessels and killed, leaving behind blood pigment - hemoglobin.
This hemoglobin undergoes certain transformations and remains in the skin in the form of a dark pigment. However, in skin cells and enhanced production of melanin pigment, which also leads to skin pigmentation. As a result, the skin gradually becomes an ugly view - uneven pigmentation spots.
Due to stagnation of blood flow is disrupted skin nutrition, whereby it goes slower regeneration. But, most importantly, among the substances which appear in the skin in chronic inflammation, there are those that accelerate the destruction of the "soft mattress" of the skin - collagen, elastin, and glycosaminoglycans - substances responsible for skin elasticity and smoothness.
As a result, the skin will fade, and her early wrinkles. As you can see, the inclusion of anti-inflammatory ingredients in cosmetics intended for aging skin, is justified. Moreover, they are needed there.
How are these substances? Anti-inflammatory ingredients have different mechanisms of action. Among them, for example, antioxidants, substances and detoxifying free radicals. This green tea, grape seed extract, rosemary, ginkgo, tomatoes, carrots.
Other substances alter the set of substances that produce the cells during inflammation. They do this, slightly modifying the direction of chemical processes. This group includes, first of all, omega3 fatty acids and gamma-linolenic acid (GLA) - the essential fatty acids.
There are many in borage oil, black currant, evening primrose. A number of plant extracts also has these properties - for example, plantain, Centella Asiatica, mallow, witch hazel, apple, chamomile, sea buckthorn and others.
In cosmetics Magiray also widely used effective anti-inflammatory and wound-healing agent extract lithospermum pharmacy with its high content of active principle - shikonin. If anti-inflammatory agents - the water-soluble extracts, it is better that they are a part of serum or very light low-fat emulsion. Oils should be in a cream or liposomal preparation.
In cosmetics MAGIRAY possess anti-inflammatory activity:
PLANTO PLUS (Plus PLANTE) - serum-gel containing extracts of plantain, Centella asiatica, witch hazel and algae.
BALANCE PLUS (Balance Plus) - a light, non-greasy cream with green tea extract, witch hazel and slezok Job.
PHYTOESSENCE (Phyto) - non-greasy moisturizing emulsion with extracts lithospermum pharmacy (with a high content of shikonin) and mallow.
EDELE (Edel) - serum with extracts of Alpine edelweiss and apple.
CALMIFIN Cream - Mask (Cream Mask Kalmifin) - is quickly absorbed, delicate mask with extracts of chamomile, mallow, butcher's broom.
SEBOFIN (Sebofin) - non-greasy, absorbs quickly mask with aloe, chamomile, sea buckthorn and honeysuckle Japanese.
PEARL CLEANSING MILK (Pearl Cleansing Milk) - contains borage oil, ginkgo extract, green tea, tomatoes.
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