Scientific name: Vaccinium Myrtillus Fruit Extract
Classification: Active ingredient of plant origin.
Antioxidant, stimulant.
Tales from Nature
The wild blueberry is a shrub twenty to sixty inches tall with bluish fruits shaped like small berries. Highly prized by Native Americans, the wild blueberry forms a five-pointed star that the "Great Spirit" sent to alleviate hunger, according to their beliefs. Indians used blueberries for medicinal purposes by making aromatic infusions from the plant's roots. Today America is the world's largest producer of blueberries.
Rich in active ingredients it has soothing, skin soothing, balancing, calming, antioxidant and capillary and blood vessel protective properties. In cosmetics it is used in products for sensitive, reddened, or fragile skin, or in cases of dark circles, to improve blood microcirculation.
Benefits
Blueberry Glycolic Extract has soothing properties on the redness of fragile or stressed skin, fights free radicals, and stimulates collagen synthesis. It is rich in vitamins (A, group B, C, PP) and minerals (calcium, sodium, phosphorus, potassium) that give it important antioxidant properties.
It makes hair soft and shiny. Also widely used as a fragrance with a bitter, pungent note. Like most common berries, it is a "cosy," welcoming ingredient that evokes intimate and personal memories related to childhood and adolescence.
