Scientific name: Vaccinium myrtillus fruit extract
Classification: Plant-based active ingredient
Antioxidant, stimulant.
Stories from Nature
The bilberry is a shrub ranging from twenty to sixty centimeters in height, bearing bluish fruits shaped like small berries. Highly prized by Native Americans, the wild bilberry forms a five-pointed star that, according to their beliefs, the “Great Spirit” sent to alleviate hunger. Native Americans used blueberries for medicinal purposes, preparing aromatic infusions from the plant’s roots. Today, the United States is the world’s largest producer of blueberries.
Rich in active ingredients, it has soothing, skin-calming, rebalancing, and antioxidant properties, and helps protect capillaries and blood vessels. In cosmetics, it is used in products for delicate, reddened, or fragile skin, or to treat dark circles under the eyes, to improve blood microcirculation.
Benefits
Blueberry Glycolic Extract has soothing properties that help reduce redness in fragile or stressed skin, fights free radicals, and stimulates collagen synthesis. It is rich in vitamins (A, B complex, C, PP) and minerals (calcium, sodium, phosphorus, potassium), which give it significant antioxidant properties.
It leaves hair soft and shiny. It is also widely used as a fragrance with a slightly bitter and pungent note. Like most common berries, it is a “cozy,” comforting ingredient that evokes intimate and personal memories linked to childhood and adolescence.
