Witch Hazel Extract

Witch Hazel Extract Intro

The essential oil extracted from the bark of witch hazel contains witch hazel tannin, gallic acid, volatile oil and some bitter compounds.

This essential oil can be used as a supplement for the treatment of burns, sores and rashes, as well as for the relief of muscle pain.

And because of its outstanding astringent, cleansing and analgesic, bactericidal and disinfection properties,

it can be an excellent ingredient in natural cosmetics and other personal skin care products.

Witch hazel extract upstream and downstream product information.

Effect:

The active components of hamamelis extract are hamamelis tannin, tannic acid, hamamelis sugar gallate and so on.

Hamamelis tannin is a hydrolyzed tannin of gallic acid, the content of which is 30%-40% in the leaf stem of hamamelis. T

he structure of hamamelis gallate is more complex than that of hamamelis tannin.

It is a mixture of one gallate, two gallate, three gallate and four gallate of hamamelis.
Action mechanism
Hamhazel extract inhibited elastase, catalase, aromatase and cathepsin, which showed that the extract could enhance the metabolism of skin cells.

Improve the level of local estrogen in the cortex and have anti-aging effect, and maintain the elasticity and anti-wrinkle of skin.

Hamamelis extract can activate luciferase, luciferase activity is low, indicating that the skin is prone to specific dermatitis.

So the extract has anti-inflammatory.

Hamamelis extract has inhibition on β-D-glucuronidase, which has high activity and smelly sweat.

Hamamelis extract can be used to inhibit body odor products.

Witch hazel extract has good water retention ability and can be used in moisturizing cosmetics as moisturizing and whitening