THE PHILOSOPHY OF HOLISTIC WELLNESS
ESSENTIAL OILS AND BOTANICAL SYNERGIES
Science meets nature
Nature serves as a source of inspiration for Napura’s cosmetic research. The Treatsystemethod formulations combine naturally derived active ingredients and carefully selected essential oils, integrating botanical knowledge and cosmetic research to create treatments tailored to the various needs of the scalp.
Essential Oils: Lightness and Cosmetic Compatibility
The essential oils used in Napura treatments are aromatic substances of botanical origin, characterized by their volatility and a composition rich in various molecules. In the liquid formulations of the vials, some components may naturally separate from the aqueous phase, making it important to mix the product before application.
The fluid texture facilitates the application of the treatment to the scalp, promoting uniform contact between the ingredients and the skin’s surface and the hair roots. These botanical synergies thus contribute to the well-being of the Scalp, enhancing the cosmetic properties of the formulation.
Aromacosmetics: the sensory ritual of holistic wellness
Aromacosmetics enhances the aromatic properties of essential oils, transforming the application into a pleasant sensory ritual to be enjoyed in the salon or at home. The aromatic notes of botanical essences accompany the treatment, promoting a sense of relaxation and well-being during scalp and hair treatments.
The power of synergy: blend up to 21 Essential Oils
Treatsystemethod treatments highlight the combination of various botanical essences, with formulations that can contain up to 21 essential oils. Each blend is created by selecting and balancing ingredients with different cosmetic and aromatic properties.
These synergies are designed to address specific scalp needs, combining purifying, rebalancing, refreshing, and sensorial properties. The Blue Vial helps protect light-sensitive ingredients, promoting their preservation.
The Blue Vial protects these delicate and precious active ingredients from photodegradation caused by sunlight and UV rays.
Calming and soothing synergies
Lavender and chamomile essential oils are prized for their aromatic properties and for their use in cosmetic formulations designed to promote skin comfort, even for sensitive scalps.
In the Treat treatments, botanical synergies help promote a sense of relief and well-being, helping to maintain the scalp’s natural balance. The delicate scents accompany the application, making it a pleasant moment of relaxation.
Purifying and refreshing synergies
Essential oils such as Lemon, Tea Tree, Scots Pine, and Eucalyptus are valued in cosmetic formulations for their aromatic, purifying, and refreshing properties.
In the Treat treatments, these synergies help enhance the sensation of cleanliness and freshness on the scalp, helping to clear impurities from the follicles, regulate sebum production, and complement routines focused on Oily Scalp and surface impurities. Application promotes a pleasant sensation of lightness and skin comfort.
The treatments in the Treat line, such as Purify and Active, harness the benefits of these blends.
Energizing and vitalizing synergies
The aromatic notes of mint, rosemary, and thyme create botanical synergies with a refreshing and invigorating effect, highly valued in treatments designed to promote scalp wellness.
In the Treat formulations, these essences help promote the vitality of Scalp and the health of the follicular environment, complementing treatments for weak and brittle hair. A scalp massage completes the experience, promoting a pleasant sensation of freshness and superficial stimulation as part of a beauty routine designed to maintain conditions conducive to hair growth.
Within the Treat formulations—such as Energy, Purify, Prime, and Active—these stimulating synergies work intensively to overcome hair fragility.
Essential Oils: Cosmetic Benefits and Olfactory Pleasure
Essential oils enhance treatments in two complementary ways: through the cosmetic properties of the formulation and through the olfactory experience.
Cosmetic action: The fluid texture of the formulas promotes even distribution on the scalp, allowing the active ingredients to come into contact with the skin’s surface.
Olfactory experience: During hair care rituals, the aromatic molecules release their distinctive fragrances during application, helping to create sensations of freshness, relaxation, or vitality, depending on the treatment’s composition.
Extracts of plant origin: the active phytocomplexes
Botanical extracts contain a variety of substances naturally found in plants, including flavonoids, tannins, and other compounds of cosmetic interest. Through specific extraction processes, these ingredients are harnessed in formulations designed for skin, scalp, and hair care.
Depending on their composition, they can help provide antioxidant, soothing, toning, or protective benefits, promoting skin health and helping to counteract the effects of environmental stressors.
Vegetable Oils and Butters: Nourishment and Lipid Protection
Plant-based oils and butters are rich in lipid components, including fatty acids and phytosterols, which are valued for their emollient and protective properties.
In cosmetic formulations, they help preserve the hydration and softness of the skin and scalp, supporting the maintenance of the hydrolipidic film. On the hair shafts, they help enhance the feeling of nourishment, softness, and shine.
Skinification: From Skincare to Scalp Care
Skinification stems from the idea of treating the scalp as an extension of the facial skin, applying well-established skincare principles to its care: hydration, protection, rebalancing, and attention to the skin barrier.
The Treatsystemethod enhances this approach through formulations that incorporate ingredients also used in facial cosmetics, such as niacinamide, salicylic acid, and zinc PCA, along with active ingredients of plant and biotechnological origin, including extracts from plant cell cultures.
A cosmetic approach tailored to the diverse needs of the Scalp, designed to promote comfort, balance, and protection against environmental stressors.
Olfactory receptors and Scalp: An interesting fact from research
Some studies have identified the presence of olfactory receptors in skin cells and in structures associated with hair follicles as well. These observations open up interesting avenues of research into the interactions between aromatic molecules and skin tissues.
This is a constantly evolving field of knowledge that contributes to a deeper understanding of skin physiology and the mechanisms involved in the hair’s life cycle, offering new insights for the research and development of cosmetic formulations designed to promote scalp health.
The ritual of skin massage in the salon
Did you know that massaging dry skin stimulates superficial circulation and helps essential oils and botanical essences penetrate the Scalp more effectively during the treatment?
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In cosmetics, skin compatibility refers to a formulation’s suitability for contact with the skin, taking into account the characteristics of the ingredients, the concentrations used, and the finished product.
Botanical extracts are selected for their cosmetic properties and incorporated into formulas designed to meet the needs of Scalp.
Certainly, body heat acts as a true botanical “catalyst.” As soon as the essential oil comes into contact with the warm Scalp, its volatility increases, facilitating the diffusion of aromatic notes through inhalation and making the active ingredients highly receptive to absorption through the skin.
Gently massaging the area after application exponentially enhances the effects of this natural process.
Some liquid formulations contain components with different solubility and density characteristics, which may separate when left to stand.
Shaking the vial before use helps temporarily mix the different phases, promoting a more uniform distribution of the ingredients during application.
This physical property offers a strategic advantage: its low density ensures an extremely light and weightless texture.
This allows the essences to glide quickly over the skin’s surface, maintaining a feeling of lightness and facilitating penetration into the superficial layers of the dermis and scalp.
The skin on the face, which has a thinner epidermal barrier than the scalp, actively responds to N|skin phyto-complexes through rapid delivery of the active ingredients.
While Treatsystemethod treatments work to stimulate or purify the hair follicle, N|skin formulas focus on antioxidant protection and maintaining surface skin hydration.
Phytosterols play a crucial repairing role, mimicking the structure of the natural lipids found in our skin. Included in N|skin formulas and hair treatments, these compounds strengthen the cohesion of the hydrolipidic film, protecting the scalp and face from external aggression and loss of firmness.
In contrast, the skillful combination of different essential and plant oils follows the principle of synergy, where different molecular densities and weights allow for layered absorption. Each ingredient acts at a different level, maximizing the overall benefit without saturating the tissues.
The biomimetic effect occurs when natural butters are spontaneously recognized and absorbed by the skin, thanks to their affinity with the skin’s natural oils.
This provides deep nourishment without leaving a greasy feeling, transforming the skin into a soft and supple texture.
Aromacosmetics shows that volatile molecules are not just pleasant odors, but biochemical messengers. When we inhale these essences, we are triggering nervous system responses that reduce tension, allowing the skin and hair to receive treatments in an optimal receptive state.
Essential oils are aromatic mixtures of botanical origin, while synthetic fragrances are obtained through synthetic processes.
Both can contribute to the olfactory experience of a cosmetic product. Their properties and tolerability depend on the composition of the substances used and the characteristics of the finished product.
Each essential oil has its own aromatic profile and distinctive composition. Combining different essential oils allows for the creation of customized botanical synergies by selecting ingredients that complement one another in terms of their cosmetic and sensory properties.
The result is a balanced formulation designed to address specific treatment needs.
Essential oils are volatile aromatic mixtures obtained from different parts of plants and used in cosmetics for their aromatic and functional properties.
Vegetable oils, on the other hand, are composed primarily of lipids and are valued above all for their emollient, nourishing, and protective properties. In cosmetic formulations, these two categories can be combined to enhance their different characteristics.
Natural does not automatically mean gentle. Even essential oils must be carefully selected and measured, especially in products intended for Scalp sensitive skin.
