OPTODERM EGF Serum

Features & Benefits

Hexapeptide-11

• Transmembrane proteins are special cellular membrane shuttling sites that move important internal and external cellular materials through the cell membranes.
• Growth Factors are key enzymes responsible for differentiation and growth of tissue, in particular fibroblasts, and can differentiate into numerous tissue types, including keratinocytes. Hexapeptide-11 uniquely plays a role in upregulating important cellular growth factors, notably FGF1 (Fibroblast Growth Factor 1), FGF2 (Fibroblast Growth Factor 2), FGF4 (Fibroblast Growth Factor 4), TGFB1 (Transforming Growth Factor Beta 1), VEGFC (Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor C) and CD44 (Hyaluronic acid transmembrane glycoprotein). As such, it works in concert with EGF to stimulate the production of the many important extracellular matrix components that fibroblasts produce in your skin viz. collagen, elastin, fibronectin, hyaluronic acid.
• These matrix (or extracellular) proteins give the skin substance, elasticity, and turgor.
• Skin Lipids are the components that make up the essential natural lipid bilayer of the skin, a key aspect of skin hydration.
• Cell Shock proteins are chaperone proteins that are excreted by cells to protect important cellular proteins from being denatured due to stress, including environmental stress.
Kombucha black tea ferment is rich in organic acid and B-group vitamins.

Xyloglucans (or Tamarindus indica polysaccharides), endowed with remarkable filming and hydrating properties, enhances the serum’s hydration activity by stimulating the production of filligrin, a protein crucial in maintaining skin hydration. Research shows that cutaneous hydration immediately improved by >59% at 30 minutes, and, over a longer period (30 days) improved skin hydration by >35%, providing a strong moisturizing effect, both short and long term.