Which Are the Best Active Ingredients for Sensitive Skin?

The first objective is to restore the skin's hydrolipidic film in order to ensure an optimal supply of moisture. Indeed, a sensitive skin has a great need of hydration and lipids. It is therefore essential to use repairing agents, such as fatty acids, combined with moisturizing agents (glycerin, hyaluronic acid, etc.) and film-forming agents to limit the evaporation of skin water. 

Sensitive skin also requires skincare products formulated with soothing ingredients that combat inflammatory reactions (panthenol, bisabolol, allantoin, etc.) to comfort the skin and calm irritation and redness.

To instantly soothe feelings of discomfort and irritation and intensely nourish sensitive skin, the use of skincare products formulated with softening, nourishing and moisturizing active ingredients is essential:

• Hyaluronic acid (INCI name: Sodium Hyaluronate) hydrating serum, cream with 9 ingredients

• Polyglutamic acid. Plumping serum helps strengthen the skin's barrier function to keep skin hydrated.

• Aloe vera (INCI name: Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice) has soothing effects.

• Beta-glucane, derived from bacteria, is a natural polysaccharide (long molecule of sugars) entirely made up of glucose units. It regulates at the source the factors responsible for the unpleasant cutaneous reactions and reactivates the blood microcirculation. It also reduces skin hypersensitivity by stimulating the skin barrier's self-defense capacities and accelerating the skin's repair process, while possessing a strong hydrating power. 

• To soothe skin prone to temporary and diffuse redness and put an end to discomfort and stinging, we have developed the soothing serum, a real ally for reactive and fragile skin. Non-smoked, its formulation, elaborated around the soothing properties of beta-glucane, is 99% of natural origin and does not include any substance that is aggressive to reactive skin. Although it makes it possible to calm immediately and durably the feelings of heating and tugging of the sensitive skins, the risk of zero allergy does not exist. However, everything has been done to minimize the risk of skin reactions. 

• Bisabolol is an active plant extract isolated from German chamomile essential oil, which is said to have anti-inflammatory, healing and skin-soothing properties. It improves the appearance of damaged skin and restores suppleness.

• Centella asiatica (INCI name: Centella Asiatica Leaf Cell Extract)

• Ceramides

• Aqueous licorice extract enriched in glabridine (INCI name: Glycyrrhiza Glabra Root Extract), one of the isoflavonoids, is endowed with an anti-inflammatory potential, both in vitro and in vivo, exercised among others by the inhibition of the activation of MAPKs (protein kinases that lead to the activation of several transcription factors that themselves activate the transcription of various inflammatory genes) and the translocation of NF-kB in the nucleus (main transcription factor involved in the inflammatory response), as well as the modulation of the expression of various pro-inflammatory mediators (TNF-α, IL-1β, IL-6). 

  Licorice extract also contains a significant amount of glycyrrhizic acid (saponin), which also contributes to its anti-inflammatory action. Indeed, a study has proven that the effects of glycyrrhizic acid were close to deoxycorticosterone, a molecule known for its anti-inflammatory action in pharmacy, that it is even qualified as natural cortisone. Thus, licorice extract relieves irritated skin, redness, and itching.

• Niacinamide is one of the active ingredients for sensitive skin that is distinguished by its anti-inflammatory properties. It also promotes the production of healthy skin cells, collagen repair and optimization of skin hydration.

• Squalane. Nourishing serum.