In the search to combat the signs of aging on the skin, facial care is essential. This happens when you don't go to sleep without removing make-up from your face, applying sun protection cream throughout the year and choosing creams and serums with ingredients and active ingredients that provide hydration to your complexion and fight against wrinkles, blemishes and loss of elasticity. .
The objective is to combat oxidative stress in the skin, for which antioxidants are essential. As well as the use of moisturizing ingredients that nourish the dermis, restore its firmness, smooth it and even out the tone, providing luminosity and vitality so that the face looks radiant. In this regard, for some time now we hear more and more talk about a new compound to revitalize the complexion: dragon's blood.
As you can imagine, dragon's blood has nothing to do with the mythological being, but is the name given to the resin of the Croton lechleri tree, native to the Amazon. When you cut the bark from said trees, a blood-like red sage sprouts from them, hence the name dragon's blood.
This exotic ingredient was used by the indigenous tribes of South America hundreds of years ago, and is still used by the natives today, thanks to its healing properties for the skin. Therefore, it is today a compound with interesting uses in cosmetics.
Dragon's blood is a powerful antioxidant with regenerative properties for the skin, rich in antioxidant phenolic compounds such as catechin, very effective in combating free radicals and oxidative stress in the dermis. It also contains proanthocyanidins, which encourage the union of natural collagen fibers.
In addition, it exerts anti-inflammatory power, reduces redness and inflammation of the skin, while calming, deeply hydrating and plumping it. Thanks to these effects, it is postulated as a powerful anti-aging ally, giving the face a firmer, smoother, hydrated and younger appearance.
Its calming effects help combat conditions such as redness, sensitivity, uniform tone, irritation, acne, psoriasis or burns caused by sun exposure. Likewise, properties that encourage wound healing are attributed to it, thanks to the fact that it contains phenolic compounds and taspine, a healing alkaloid. In short, a most versatile and effective ingredient to incorporate into your facial care routine in your moisturizer.
