The attention level has risen rapidly, and the anti-aging component has reached a new high

The concept of anti-aging has become a hot topic in the field of beauty and skin care. In order to seize the market, many cosmetic brands have launched products containing anti-aging ingredients. A-alcohols, peptides, fullerenes, etc. have gradually come into the public's view.

The crowded track and hot market have naturally led to the emergence of a series of anti-aging ingredients, including ergot sulfur.

According to the record growth data of major anti-aging ingredients in anti-aging skin care products, ergot sulfur ranked eighth with a growth rate of 64.2% from January 2021 to May 2022. In addition, ergot sulfur ranked fifth with a user concern index of 59.2 in the List of the Most Concerned Functional Ingredients in 2021.

As a component called "three causes" together with Ikedoine and Bosein, ergot thionine was discovered in 1909. It was first discovered from ergot fungus, and its name is derived from it.

Ergothionine is a natural antioxidant from common mushrooms in nature. In 1909, Charles Tanret, a French pharmacist, isolated a unique crystalline sulfur compound when studying ergot fungus that destroys rye grains. Later, he named this water-soluble mercaptan ergot fungus ergot sulfur. Later, people found the existence of this substance from various mushrooms, plants and animal blood.

Since its discovery, ergot sulfur has attracted a large number of scholars to study its unique properties for more than a century. After continuous in-depth research, scientists found that ergot sulfur is a natural antioxidant, which can protect cells in the human body and is an important active substance in the body.

Natural antioxidants are safe and non-toxic. As a natural antioxidant, ergot sulfur has many physiological functions such as scavenging free radicals, detoxification, maintaining DNA biosynthesis, normal cell growth and cellular immunity.

So far, cosmetics is one of the most widely used fields of ergot sulfur, which can be found in many anti-aging, whitening and freckle removing products. Antioxidation is its core function, and its main role is to slow down the aging of human body.

Generally speaking, the main task of antioxidation is to fight against free radicals. ergot sulfur can enter mitochondria through the transporter produced by the skin to directly eliminate free radicals and protect mitochondria. It can also activate the antioxidant enzymes that can eliminate reactive oxygen free radicals, and has strong antioxidant effect.

According to the experimental data of Estee Lauder, ergot sulfur is 20 times stronger than coenzyme Q10 in its ability to resist free radicals, and even more than twice as strong as aldybenzene, which has a very strong antioxidant capacity. Compared with vitamin C and glutathione, the two kinds of veteran antioxidant players, ergot sulfur is safer, milder, more stable, and can be stably stored in the cosmetics system.

It is worth mentioning that ergot sulfur is the only amino acid with exclusive cell absorption channels in the human body, and ergot sulfur is well absorbed due to its water-soluble property. At the same time, ergot sulfur can break through the brain blood barrier and eliminate free radicals in the brain and eye, which is a major difference between ergot sulfur and other antioxidants.

In addition to anti-oxidation, ergot sulfur has significant effects in whitening, anti-inflammatory and other aspects. According to the relevant research results, the addition of ergot sulfur in cosmetics can achieve whitening effect when the amount reaches 0.01% - 3%. In addition, many literatures have shown that ergot sulfur can avoid the damage to the skin caused by ultraviolet radiation, and is a very effective sunscreen ingredient.

At present, ergot sulfur has been considered by the industry as an active ingredient that is generally considered safe, has no risk of causing acne, has low safety risk and is beneficial to skin.

As early as 2014, lysergotin has been included in the Catalogue of Used Cosmetic Raw Materials, and can be added to cosmetics of different dosage forms as effective raw materials. However, until recent years, the attention and application scope of domestic cosmetics to lysergotin began to expand.

As for why ergot sulfur has been reused because of its strong antioxidant effect?

There are two main reasons. One is that the international brands led by Estee Lauder have always monopolized the patented technology and supply chain of ergot sulfur. The other is that the cost of ergot sulfur is too high. It is understood that ergot sulfur is also one of the most expensive cosmetic pharmaceutical raw materials. A formulator once said that the price of raw materials of pure ergot sulfur could reach tens of thousands of yuan/g, and if the price was based on tonnage, the price could reach hundreds of millions.

At present, there are three main preparation processes of lysergothione: chemical synthesis, extraction and biological fermentation. However, these three preparation processes have many disadvantages, such as high cost, difficult to obtain, low yield and purity.

According to different purity, ergot sulfur products on the market are mainly divided into ergot sulfur fermentation mixture, low content ergot sulfur compound and ergot sulfur pure product. It is reported that the price of ergot sulfur with 98% purity on the market is generally 250000 to 300000 yuan per kilogram. Such a high price is a great pressure for any brand, so ergot sulfur cannot be widely used in cosmetics for a long time.

Speaking of ergot sulfur, we have to mention its "Bole" Estee Lauder. As early as 2002, Estee Lauder had been conducting in-depth research to make ergot sulfur play a better role, and carried out a series of experiments to verify the strong antioxidant performance of ergot sulfur.

For example, in 2007, Estee Lauder compared ergot thiophene with idebene, which is also an antioxidant. The results showed that ergot thiophene was stronger than coenzyme Q10 and idebene in scavenging free radicals and protecting cells from active oxygen induced by ultraviolet light.

As the leading ingredient of Estee Lauder, ergot sulfur is almost integrated into all brands and products under Estee Lauder. Its brands such as Clinique, Yuemuzhiyuan and Mystery of Sea Blue have used ergot sulfur factor as the core efficacy ingredient. Estee Lauder boasts that the ergot sulfur factor used in one year is measured in tons.

In fact, not only Estee Lauder, but also many foreign brands believe that ergot sulfur is the fifth generation antioxidant. Among the orange series products under Elizabeth Arden, ergot sulfur is a parallel antioxidant component with ideben, Lipochroman-6, etc.

In addition to these international brands, in recent years, the research on ergot sulfur in some domestic cosmetics enterprises is also growing. For example, Huaxi Biotech uses the mycelium joint fermentation technology of Hericium erinaceus and Mushroom mushroom to produce ergotin related raw material Bioyouth ™- EGT, and apply it to its subordinate moisturizing and rejuvenating essence. The test shows that 1.3% Bioyouth ™- The DPPH radical scavenging capacity of EGT is 14 times that of glutathione at the same concentration and 30 times that of coenzyme Q10.

At present, Huaxi Biology has applied for a total of 14 patents for the relevant technologies of ergot thiophene. In the application titled "Antioxidant Composition, Preparation Method and Application in Cosmetic Composition" filed in May this year, it was stated that the combination of astaxanthin, sodium hyaluronate hydrolysate, ergot thiophene and EUK ‑ 134 can synergize and play an antioxidant role more efficiently. In addition, Huaxi Biology has also developed ergot thiophane powder raw materials, in which ergot thiophane has a higher content, about 2500ppm.

In addition to Huaxi Biology, Praia has also launched a dual anti essence with ergotaxine and astaxanthin as the main ingredients, which has been among the top three best-selling products of the company since its listing. At the same time, the domestic cutting-edge brand Baizhicui has also launched antioxidant matching products with ideben+ergotaxine+pine mushroom extract, and many domestic cutting-edge cosmetics brands have also continuously launched products containing ergotaxine, However, according to the data, some brands of ergot sulfur are supplied by Estee Lauder, which also shows that China needs to improve the technology for preparing ergot sulfur.

At present, the scope of application of ergot sulfur is not limited to international brands. Many domestic brands have also joined the track, using ergot sulfur to achieve curve overtaking by taking advantage of business travel alienation. It has become a new ingredient in the beauty market in the era of skin care.

Search for ergot sulfur on Taobao platform, and the products shown include skin care products and health care products, whose effects all point to skin anti-aging, anti free radicals, brightening and yellowing, etc. Skin care brands are more prominent, such as Baizhixuan, HBN, etc.

In addition, the small red book platform searched for ergot sulfur by keyword, and more than 10000 related notes were displayed, most of which were based on ergot sulfur science popularization and product advertising. It can be seen that ergot sulfur, which is famous for its royal ingredients, has a certain foundation in the Chinese market and has a huge development space in the future.

In the era of effective skin care, effective ingredients have increasingly become the standard for young people to purchase skin care products. As one of the topics most concerned by consumers, anti-aging has become a sector with great potential for development of the industry. And ergot sulfur, which has significant efficacy, may become a dark horse player in the anti-aging world in the future depending on its powerful anti-oxidation performance.