Natural cosmeceuticals

Cl. Bleve, M., Ciurlia, L., and Rescio, L., Supercritical carbon dioxide extracts from red fruits a natural cosmeceutical application, Nutra. Cos., 4, 23, 2005. 

Further, squalane also exists in sebum composition. Additionally, due to its unique properties and more stable nature as industrial product than squalene, squalane is highly preferable in cosmeceutical and nutraceutical... 

Owing to the immense diversity of animals and microbes in the marine environments, and their almost untouched capacity to produce natural products, the importance for marine pharmaceutical and nutra-ceutical industries was realized on a broad basis by the scientific communities recently. This has strengthened worldwide research activities on the exploration of bioactive compounds from marine organisms for pharmaceutical use, as well as the development of other valuable products, such as enzymes, nutraceuticals, and cosmeceuticals. 

This new process would have two advantages, the production of a phospholipid-enriched fraction, which could be used in cosmeceuticals and nutraceuticals and a purihed (demineralized and delipided) and more valuable protein fraction after concentration of the whey. EDBM process could be a part of the first step of WPC treatment for the valorization of the whey in the form of lipid fractions of different nature. In comparison with the chemical acidification, EDBM process has the... 

Hence, the emphasis on screening of MMPIs from different natural resources has gained much importance and marine resources are one among them. As marine organisms have been contributing with several biologically active compounds that have profound applications in nutraceuticals, cosmeceuticals, and pharmaceuticals in this chapter, an attempt has been made to discuss the various MMPIs from edible seaweeds, which could be considered as medicinal foods. 

It is a well-understood fact that marine flora harbors a wide range of biologically active compounds that are reported to have an outstanding prospective in the medicinal, nutraceutical, and cosmeceutical applications. Natural metabolites obtained from marine seaweeds prove to be abundant resources with chemical diversity, and among them, phlorotannins are studied most for fheir biological activities. These phlorotannins (Fig. 10.1) are derived from fannins and are composed of several phloroglucinol units linked to each other in different ways and mostly... 

At present, the field of marine natural products becomes more sophisticated. Seaweeds have drawn worldwide attention due to their involvement in many industrial applications. Seaweeds produce a variety of active components with different structures and interesting biological activities (Amarowicz et ah, 2004 Choi et ah, 2002 Kim and Bae, 2010 Kong et ah, 2009 Shibata et ah, 2008). The bioactive components isolated from seaweeds could be divided into polyphenols, peptides, polysaccharides, etc. Many of these active compoimds have been found to be useful functional ingredients in many industrial applications such as pharmaceutical, cosmeceutical, and fimctional food. 

Morganti P, Morganti G., Muzzarelli R.A. A., and Muzzarelh C. 2007a. Chitin nanofihrils A natural compound for innovative cosmeceuticals. C T 122(4) 81-88. 

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