Unlock­ing the Secrets of Pep­tides in Cosmetics

As we age, our skin los­es its elas­tic­i­ty. Signs of pig­men­ta­tion start appear­ing and promi­nent wrin­kles taint your once flaw­less skin. Gen­er­al­ly, cos­met­ic com­pa­nies all over the world make tall promis­es of reju­ve­nat­ing and lift­ing sag­ging skin, reduc­ing fine lines and wrin­kles, and pro­vid­ing a solu­tion for a fresh and youth­ful appear­ance. Con­trary to what peo­ple believe, most beau­ty creams today – par­tic­u­lar­ly the ones aimed at reduc­ing signs of aging – have yield­ed dra­mat­ic results. That’s because of the usage of pep­tides in anti-aging creams. Pro­teins have long played a promi­nent role in cos­me­tol­ogy. They are found in a range of creams, serums, hair prod­ucts and more. There are no two ways about the fact that these pro­teins show mirac­u­lous results on skin. At the present time, cos­met­ic pep­tides are grow­ing to be a rev­o­lu­tion­ary beau­ty ingre­di­ent on account of their mul­ti-func­­tion­al prop­er­ties such as : 

• Ful­fill­ing bio­log­i­cal functions,
• Car­ry­ing out cel­lu­lar activities,
• Exer­cis­ing con­trol over skin process­es, includ­ing aging.

What Are Peptides ?

To begin with, col­la­gen is a form of pro­tein that’s made from long-length amino acid chains attached togeth­er. How­ev­er, it is impor­tant to under­stand that pep­tides pos­sess the same chem­i­cal struc­ture as pro­teins, but its chain is short­er than that of pro­teins. Pep­tides are basi­cal­ly con­struct­ed from the left­overs of amino acids. Gen­er­al­ly, pep­tides are polypep­tide that com­prise about 30-50 amino acids in the chain. Typ­i­cal­ly, pep­tides come in two forms : nat­ur­al and syn­thet­ic. Mod­ern cos­met­ic pep­tides are lab engi­neered and hence they are known to pro­duce much more effec­tive results. Unlike pro­teins and amino acids, pep­tides do not have any species speci­fici­ty. Con­sid­er this : fish col­la­gen present in a cos­met­ic cream will not do any good to the skin. How­ev­er, if you break­down this col­la­gen and add deriv­a­tive pep­tides into it, the results will cer­tain­ly be reju­ve­nat­ing and enrich­ing for the skin. Accord­ing to var­i­ous sci­en­tif­ic inves­ti­ga­tions, cos­met­ic results can be achieved even with very low lev­els of pep­tides in cos­met­ic prod­ucts. Fur­ther­more, it has zero lev­el of tox­i­c­i­ty and is not haz­ardous for the skin. Here’s a brief sum­ma­ry of the func­tions ful­filled by cos­met­ic pep­tides in a wide range of cos­met­ic skin­care products : 

• They encour­age the pro­duc­tion of col­la­gen and pre­vent any cross link­age among them,
• Improves the skin by mak­ing it soft and supple,
• Stim­u­late super­ox­ide dis­mu­tase (a pro­tec­tive antiox­i­dant enzyme),
• Improve organ­ic mech­a­nism pro­tect­ing antioxidants,
• Exer­cise con­trol over melano­gen­e­sis (this holds back the pro­duc­tion of melanin),
• Alle­vi­ate ten­der­ness and encour­age skin regen­er­a­tive procedures,
• Improve the cir­cu­la­tion of blood at micro-lev­­el (micro­cir­cu­la­tion).

At Wat­son Inter­na­tion­al, we stock a com­pre­hen­sive col­lec­tion of var­i­ous kinds of cos­met­ic pep­tides. More­over, we also have in store some high­ly pop­u­lar chem­i­cal prod­ucts includ­ing cou­pling reagents, n-methyl amino acid, Pen­ta­cy­clen, and many more. For more infor­ma­tion, email us at contact@​watsonnoke.​com .