Skincare Ingredient Spotlight -Centella Asiatica – Gotu Kola, Cica, Tiger Grass – & Benefits
okay so welcome to today’s ingredient spotlight and today i want to talk about centella osiatica extract which is an ingredient which is you see a lot especially in k-beauty products uh it’s known by many different names typically you see it as centella asiatic or sikka the sicka plant it’s also called tiger grass gotu cola bromine and asiotic pennywort it’s a perennial group that grows primarily in asia and it’s used both in food and medicinal uses and it’s really gaining a lot of popularity and skin care products especially in the last few years um and i’m going to talk about my favorite products with it in there so it’s a swamp dwelling herb which first started appearing in south korea sick of cream several years ago although uh estee lauder has actually used this ingredient on and off for quite a long time but they didn’t title it like sikka that just had it as an ingredient it’s also been used in folk medicine for hundreds of years and traditionally used to help improve and heal small wounds small burns scratches cuts that is due to its anti-inflammatory purpose and also some people have found it works well for eczema healing it and calming it because it is such a skin soothing ingredient uh they also have been doing more and more research especially for some of these cosmetic companies because they’re finding out it has several different uh active compounds and that have more benefits so those are asiatic ocide metacasocide oseotic and metacasic acid also called centalicides so you see it a lot in uh i reviewed the peach peach and lily glass skin mist this contained i believe cintel asiatica as well as every single one of those active compounds and is also in their glass skin serum uh one of the biological activities of centalocytes is to stimulate glycosaminoglycans and polysaccharides which are part of the liquidy stuff in between our skin cells it’s kind of like i always like to describe it like uh grout between the tiles that’s kind of how our face is made up all the cells and the little stuff in between each cells and that is one of the reasons why cental asiatic has really nice hydrating properties and um anyway they’ve done a lot of studies that really have proven centaur asiatica’s calming anti-inflammatory side effects and manocaside has also been known to help with wound burn wound healing because it enhances collagen synthesis due to its antioxidant components uh adeoc azia cosi was also shown to increase antioxidant levels on rats when applied at just an amount of 0.
2 percent so that is pretty impressive cental asiatica also often shows up in products that are known to or marketed to treat cellulite but it’s not obviously a miracle but they do say some of it can improve microcirculation personally i don’t really buy into a lot of that stuff but i think it helps the connective tissues work better so there’s no reason with using it but i just wouldn’t hope for miracles um let’s see cintel asiatica also often oh no sorry bottom line is that sentella is a great plant with wound healing properties anti-inflammatory properties skin soothing properties antioxidant properties hydrating prop properties as well so some of my favorites uh the one i’m currently using the most is the purito scentella unscented serum the purito scintella recovery cream is great the purito centella unscented sunscreen as well is great and their scentella toner is great but these are two of my favorites from purito as along with their dermid sikka barrier sleep repair pack which they’ve just reformulated to make it a little bit more friendly for acne prone skin so keep that one in mind that they’ve just changed the formula a little bit the biggest product which really brought it to more and more attention for skin care enthusiasts in the us was the dr jart sica para line uh their tiger grass cream they’ve got they expanded this whole line so i’ve got a cleanser a moisturizer they’ve got a sunscreen which might not be the best sunscreen in the world i’m hearing uh they’ve also got a toner so this one actually this is when i really became familiar with cental asiatic was the tiger grass cream from dr jart super thick very hydrating does have a little bit of fragrance in it um the isn’t tree sikka repair ampoule i got this in a little two pack so now i’m on to the second bottle but this is a really nice one and they if you notice on the bottle they keep the two uh serum separate until you go to use it the very first time and it uh mixes it the uh casa rex centella cleansing powder is also very nice and calming cosrx has done a great job they’ve got so many great centella related products their sentella blemish repair cream is wonderful their scintella blemish ampule is also very nice uh as well and then uh benton yeah i just realized almost no all of these no yeah they’re all k-beauty i guess i didn’t realize that but they do show up in some u.
s or american-made products but it’s more prominent to see them in a lot of k-beauty products but the benton centella gel is great this one i’m just getting into the madagascar centella ampule just started testing it recently so far i’m liking it but i haven’t gotten to use it for very long so um but i’m enjoying it i’ll definitely do a full review of it and uh the be plain brand they’re sick of full ampule is also nice i’m just testing this one and playing around with it and then another product i like the lineage sicka sleeping mask however this one doesn’t have a whole ton of cintel asiatic in there so keep that one in mind but this is a great one it does have some in there but most of these products you can add into your routine very nicely and sometimes you just add them in there without really having to take anything else out but if you are looking for something that’s very soothing for skin uh i do micro needle occasionally and when i do i usually apply the isn’t tree sika ampule immediately afterwards and i’ll apply the purito cintel serum before i just find it soothes skin a little bit or if you have breakouts that are healing it’s a really great ingredient to add into your routine and very easy to incorporate into whether it’s a cleansing powder or a sleeping mask a serum a mist a sunscreen it’s great in a sunscreen because your skin is already needing soothing if you’re out in the sun from environmental pollution and damage so it’s really nice there’s a multitude of ways you can add it into your routine very easily and most these products are also pretty affordable i would say most of these are under 20 or so so certainly worth checking out in my opinion um so anyway i’m interested in hearing from you guys if you have any centella favorite products and what they are and what do you like about them so leave a comment i love hearing from you guys and stay tuned for more tomorrow thank you so much you
