5 Weird New Skin Care Ingredients
If you haven't noticed, I have a strange curiosity with strange skin care ingredients--or treatments (recall leeches and bird poop). It's usually those that are found in faraway places and revered by cultures not so next-door to our own. I just find it fascinating. So when I read an article today (6/4/08) from Skin Inc Magazine about "witchy new ingredients", well, here they are:
1.Snake Venom Peptide
2. Natural Bee Mucus Extract
3. Purified Snail Slime
4. Shark Oil Essence
5. Sunscreen Extract from Cuttlefish
Here are some excerpts from the article...
Latest research from the Mintel Global New Products Database highlights several new skin care products with ingredients that would not be out of place in a witch's spell.
It goes on to say,
"There are now so many skin care products to choose from and manufacturers are increasingly having to look at the world around us in a new light to find bizarre, new ingredients to make their products stand out from the crowd. By using these off-the-wall formulas, manufacturers are playing on the hopes that something this wacky might just work," explains Alexandra Richmond, senior beauty analyst at Mintel.
By the way, the cuttlefish has gotten some good press lately. If you saw the Naked Archaeologist on the History Channel last night, the cuttlefish just might be the missing link to the ancient blue biblical dye called tekhelet. Who knew?
Does any of your skin care contain these "witchy" ingredients? Let us know!
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