- INCI Name:Aminobutyric Acid
- Functions:Adhesion Promoter, Healing Agent, Anti-Aging Agent, Moisturizing Agent
- Labeling Claims:Clean at Sephora, Ulta Beauty's Conscious Beauty
- Certifications & Compliance:Kosher
- Benefit Claims:Repairing, Moisturizing, Anti-Aging, Detangling, Collagen Boosting, Skin Adhesion, Smoothing, Healing
Gamma-AminoButyric Acid (GABA) is a non-protein amino acid, due to all its benefits; it works as an ideal anti-aging agent ingredient. It can penetrate the skin and relax tense muscles thereby significantly reducing expression lines to achieve a fresher younger looking skin. GABA is known to act as a wound healer as well. Being a neurotransmitter inhibitor is what allows for its topical muscle tone which is mostly compared to “Botox-like” effect. Research in this topical application suggests that it then improves the skin barrier. There are GABA receptors on the skin surface. The inhibitory or excitability of GABA receptor controls the relaxation and tension of the expression muscles. GABA can quickly penetrate into the skin and activate the GABA receptors, then the tense expression muscles are relaxed, the expression lines are stretched.
