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Bifida Ferment Filtrate is an ingredient made from Bificobacteria. After fermenting them using biotechnology and crush the output, we get Bifida Ferment Filtrate. It contains not only metabolites, cytoplasma fractions and cell wall constituents but also effective substance such as polysaccharide complexes. These components protect our cells from UV-induced damage, which makes them anti-oxidants.

Yam is a perennial climbing plant growing in the mountains of Korea, Japan and China. When we cut yam, sticky liquid containing mucin is emitted. Mucin is one of the components of skin and is helpful for retaining moisture on skin, which results in making our skin moisturized and glossy. Plus, it is reported that mucin has anti-bacterial and anti-oxidant effect. There are more mucin and less water in wild yam than normal one, so nutritions are more concentrated in wild yam. For this reason, wild yam is valuable as an ingredient of food and cosmetics.

Citron is a kind of mandarin cultivated in Northeast Asia and widely used for manufacturing beverage, food and cosmetics. It contains representative anti-oxidant substances like vitamin C, and flavonoids, so it is good for maintaing our beauty by preventing fatigue and aging. Pectin has anti-inflammatory effect, which is helpful for curing burns and skin disease and relieving pruritus. Furthermore, limonene blocks evaporation from epidermis and alleviating skin inflammatory disease such as acne and atopic dermatitis.

Damask rose is assumed that it is a hybrid between Rosa gallica and Rose Moschata in Asia and propagated through Syria, Fareastern Asia and to Europe. It has elegant scent, so it has been traditionally and widely used as ingredients for fragrance and cosmetic bath. Petals contain much more vitamin C than lemon or orange and also phenolic compouds such as quercetin and kaempferol. As a result, it effectively removes free radical and ROS. What's more, it is studied that damask rose also has anti-bacterial and anti-inflammatory effect.

Baobab tree, appearing in the famous novel 'The Little Prince', is one of the biggest tree species in the world. It usually grows in Africa, whose seeds and leaves have been used for alleviating a fever and a diarrhea as a traditional remedy. Also, it is reported that people in Africa have used its bark to relieve a pain and inflammation and healing wounds. The fruit of baobab contains especially much amount of calcium and phosphorus, and helpful for removing ROS thanks to lots of vitamin C

In sparkling water is naturally or artificially diluted carbon dioxide. Nowadays, it is getting more and more popularity because many people are using it for both drinking and their beauty. The pH of sparkling water is 4.5~5.5, similar to that of healthy skin. So, it helps recover the pH balance of alkaline skin(e.g. acne, atopic dermatitis). Also, it is studied that it is effective for the synthesis of lipids in epidermis and recovery of skin barrier. In Korea, Chojeong sparkling water, gathered in Chojeongri, Chungbuk, is famous. It is naturally formed in limestone strata 100m below the sea level, containing many kinds of minerals beneficial for us. Traditionally, it is passed down that people washed there in the hottest days of the midsummer. Plus, according to Korean historic books, King Sejong and Sejo treated an eye disease and dermatitis using Chojeong sparkling water.

Camellia sinensis is an evergreen shrub whose leaves are used to produce tea. Tea is divided into several types according to how the leaves are treated. Green tea is non-fermented tea made from tea leaves treated by heating. Catechin, the representative polyphenol in green tea, is much more powerful anti-oxidant than vitamin C and E. If catechin affect with those vitamins and organic acids on our body, those substances create synergistic anti-oxidative effect. In the meantime, theanine, one of the amino acids only found in green tea, helps ease tention

Mugwort is common perennial plant on mountain, field and along the road. Versatile ingredient for food, it is also used for the medicinal purpose. It is prescribed as moxa cautery, pain killer and styptic in oriental medicine. As a folk remedy, people relieved eczema, pruritis or dermatitis by applying cool extract of mugwort. In the mean time, Western people used it for exterminating and killing insects. It is reported that mugwart extract not only removes free radical and ROS(Reactive Oxyzen Species) and has an anti-bacterial effect against the skin flora.

Lemonverbena is a popular herb well-known for preventing chronic inflammatory disease. It has a scent of lemon, so it is an ingredient for herb tea as well as air freshner. Essential oil extracted from leaves is used for manufacturing fragrance, soap and other cosmetic products and makes skin smooth.

Avocado is originated from where has Mediterranean climate of Mexico or South America, cultivated in California and region of South America. Avocado fruits contain 20% of fats, whose amount is much more than other fruits and vegetables. For this reason, it is called 'Butter Fruit' and used for making salad and other purpose. Most of the fat of avocado is unsaturated fatty acids, good for moisturizing because they block evaporation of moisture from our skin. Also, avocado has rich amount of vitamin A, B, E, β-carotene and minerals. Additionally, it is known that glutathione plays a role as an anti-oxidant.

Rosemary is an evergreen shrub native to the Mediterranean. It has strong but fresh scent, so it is very popular ingredient for fragrance and deodorant. Also, it was traditionally used as a anti-dandruff hair tonic and its floral water was good for washing eyes. It is reported that rosemary not only supresses the propagation of microbials and inflammation but also removes free radical as an anti-oxidant.

Evening primerose is a nationalized plant native to Chile and grows everywhere in the wild. Its name came from the fact that the flowers bloom from sunset and during night time. Native Indians of North America is known to have used its boiled water to prevent cold or treat asthma, abscess and dermatitis. In Korea, dried roots and whole plants are folk remedies for relieving a fever, a sore throat and skin disease. Also, crushed fresh flowers are good medicine for alleviating bruise and skin damage. Anti-oxidative and anti-inflammatory effects are reported as main efficacy of the evening primerose. Flavonoids in flowers represses the formation of ROS. Furthermore, the ability to suppress the NO synthesis and activate LOX contributes to its anti-inflammatory characteristic.

Strawberry is cultivated all over the world and one of the most common fruits. Its vivid red color and sweet flavor makes it so popular. It is widely consumed juice, pie, jam as well as fragrance and cosmetic products. Anti-oxidants like anthocyanin and ellagitannin are contained in strawberry, effective in protecting our fibroblasts from UV-damage

Lycium chinense is one of shrubs growing throughout the tropic and the temperate zone of the East Asia. When it is fall, we can see its red fruit, Goji. Barks of the roots, Jigolpi, and leaves called Gugiyeop are oriental medicinal herbs good for robusting, quenching thirst and nourishing. Goji contains anti-oxidants such as betaine, rutin, zeaxanthin, carotenoids, which are helpful for retaining elasticity of skin by recovering synthesis of collagen. Also, the extracts derived from fruits and leaves supress tyrosinase's activity, so it is effective on skin whitening

Papaya is native to tropical America, from southern Mexico to the Andes in South America. It is brought to Caribbean, Pacific Islands and Europe by Spanish explorers in the middle of 17th century. Papaya skin, pulp and seeds contain various kinds of nutritients such as carotenoids, vitamin C, minerals and polyphenols. When unripe fruit is cut, white liquid containing papain, a kind of protease, is smeared. The powder refined from this liquid has an excellent detergency and it is known that it helps alleviate acnes. According to a recent study, polysaccharides from papaya fruit has the ability to remove DPPH and superoxide and to retain mosture as strongly as that of hyaluronic acid and glycerol. These characteristic makes papaya valuable as a natural moisturizer with anti-oxidative effect.

Milk is excellent source of nutrition, and it is almost a super food because it contains lactic acid, proteins, lipids, vitamins, and minerals. Lactic acid in milk serum is one of the NMFs in our skin and it has the ability to retain large amount of water, so it is helpful for moisturizing our skin. Also, it controls keratinization, which results in enforcing flexibility of the epidermis.

Rooibos is a needleleaf tree growing in South Africa. The main characteristic is its red leaves, which gave it the name - 'Red shrub.' Rooibos tea is made from dried leaves and contains no caffeine compared to other teas. However, there are plenty of minerals in the tea. Also, it is an excellent anti-oxidant due to its quercetin and isoorientin, preventing photoaging by lessen the UV-induced stimulation on skin.

Bitter orange is a hybridiz between pomelo and mandarin and cultivated in warm area such as Mediterranean and South America. Its extract is usaully used for essential oil of fragrance or ingredient of supplenment like digestion-stimulating ones and appetite supressant. We can find teas or candy whose ingredients are dried bitter orange's petals. Limonexic acid in petals have anti-cancer, anti-bacterial and pesticidic effect and HTF(tetramethoxyflavone) supresses the action of IL-16, one of inflammatory cytokines.

Peach has come from China and been used for both food and medicine. According to 'Donguibogam', its flowers and fruits make complexion better and shiny. Leaves are prescribed to reduce pain and inflammation. In leaves exist tannin which has acerbity, and it acts as an anti-inflammatory agent and protect inflammatory lesion by making film. Also, it has an vasconstrictive effect, which results in supressing perspiration, sebum secretion and loosen pores.

Caffeine had been firstly isolated from coffee bean by German chemist, Ferdinand Runge, in 1820. It is named after the fact that it is substance in coffee (coffee+in). Nowadays, it has been reported that not only coffee but also about 60 species of plants contain caffeine in leaves and fruits. Green tea, cocoa, mate are the example of caffeine-containing plants. If the caffeine is absorbed in our body, it makes neurons more active and has arousal effect. In the mean while, it is studied that caffeine protects keratinocytes from UV on our skin, which lower the possibility of skin carcinogenesis.

Morechem™ Fig Extract is known to be indigenous to the mediterranean. It doesn't bloom, but its flower are actually hiden in a sepal. Fig is very sweet, so people eat it as a fresh fruit. However, it has been also used for treating indigetion, constipation, dermatitis and gynecological disease in folk remedy. It contains lots of polyphenolic compounds removing ros, which helps prevent our skin from aging.

The peppermint is known that it is a natural hybrid derived from spearmint and watermint. It is very widely used for medicine like analgesic and cold remedy as well as as herb tea, favorite food and cosmetic material. Phenolic compounds such as eriocitrin, hesoeridin and rosmarinic acid in peppermint are good anti-oxidants. Especially, mentol not only has a pain killing effect, but makes us feel cool by stimulating cold receptor of our skin. As a result, it can be helpful for reducing pruritis.

Portulaca Oleracea is often caalled 'Soebireum' and it is named after its shape of horse's teeth. According to 'Bonchogangmok', crushed Portulaca Oleracea's leaves are attached on abscess and wart or used to exterminate parasites. In relavant of this usage, Portulaca Oleracea had an effect on relieving inflammatory pain and damages in many recent studies.

Blueberries are prostrate shrubs native to North America. Native Indians called them as 'star-shaped berries' and ate fresh or stored ones. Nowadays, there are many kinds of product using blueberries; juice, squeeze, baked goods, jam and so on. Blueberries are commonly famous for 'fruits for eyes' due to anthocyanin, but it has anti-aging as a powerful anti-oxidative substance as well as protecting eyesight. Also, they contain flavonoids and carotenoids, another types of anti-oxidant.

Morringa is a perennial herb growing in tropical and subtropical region in India and Africa. Its almost all parts -roots, bark, seeds and petals- are used for both medicinal and food, so it is called 'tree of miracle', and 'pharmacy in nature.' Its leaves contain lots of anti-oxidative substance such as β-carotene, vitamin C and flavonoids. Seeds not only have anti-inflammatory effec but also supress the propagation of microbials like S.aureus and P.aeruginosa.

Aloe vera is a perennial tropical plant originated from Africa. According to old medical books of Korea and China, it is described as 蘆薈 - a traditional medicine for curing skin diseases, abscess, ulcers and detoxification. Greek medicinal book introduced aloe as following : Spreading out aloe powder on damaged skin helps it cured and treating abscess and other skin disease. Monosaccharide, polysaccharide, amino acids(His, Arg, Ser, Gly etc) in aloe vera leaf are helpful for skin moisturizing. Especially, when applying leaf juice on the burned skin, the damaged skin gets moisture from it and recovers quickly .

Marshmallow is a perennial plant originated from Asia and Europe. As its name, Althaea', came from 'altho : to cure', it is known that it is the most powerful medicinal mallow. The leaves help reduce swelling from a bee sting. The extract of dried leaves, flowers and roots alleviates stomatitis and gastritis. Especailly, roots have been used for treating burns, bites and skin inflammatory disease, which is related to the fact that it helps phagocytosis and supresses the propagation of microbial.

Jasmine is a genus of shrubs and its name came from Greek word 'jasme', which means fragrant oil. It is native to Northern India and Persia, introduced to Europe in the middle of 1600s. Nowadays, it is mainly cultivated in France, Morocco and Italy. (R)-(-)-linalool in jasmine has unique scent making us relaxed. For this reason, it is used for manufacturing diffuser and fragrance and aromatherapy for treating depression and soothing. It is known that Thai used it as food ingredient and medicine for relieving dizziness, anti-bacterial, anti-inflammation and sanitization.

Ginger is one of the popular spice for its unique scent and pungency. It contains essential oils such as gingerol. zingiberol and zingiberene. Gingerol, a representitive active substance in fresh ginger, shows anti-microbial, anti-inflammatory and sterilizing effect. 10-shagol helps keratinocytes and fibroblasts proliferate and move to damaged area of skin, accelerating skin recovery.

Green tea is one of the most popular drinks in the world. Traditionally, it is known that it has a positive effect on quenching thirst, treating skin ulcer and detoxifying our body. Due to its excellent role as anti-oxidant resulting from polyphenols, green tea is widely used for cosmetic material. Grenn-GPT is glycoprotein coming from extracted and purifed green tea leaves. It protects our skin from UV damage by supressing the expression of MMP-1 . Also, it is powerfully anti-inflammatory as much as indomethacin, which is one of the anti-inflammatory drugs and needs to be prescribed.

Calendula, known as Marigold, is originated from Asia and Southen Europe. The name 'calendula' came from 'calendae' - little calandar in Latin. Middle European have used calendula flowers as medicines for treating skin diseases or minor injuries since 12th century. Besides, it has an positive effect on relieving inflammation, burning and allergic reaction, which is due to supressing the action of inflammatory cytokines like IFN-γ and COX-2.

The orange had been cultivated since B.C.2500 in China, introduced to Europe. Usaually it is eaten as a fresh fruit or juice, but we have benefitted from it for the purpose of relieving fatigue and digestive agent. Nowadays, it is used in preventing cold, cosmetic and fragrance. Vitamin C in oranges is known for having anti-oxidant and whitening effect. Flavonoids and carotenoids, phytochemicals showing yellow or orange color, also remove free radicals, so they prevent skin damage.

Shea butter is vegetable fat and oil from African Shea tree and it has been used as folk remedies and moisturizer for a long time. Unlike other types of oil, shea butter is not saponized. For this reason, effective components such as vitamin E can function on the skin much better. Enriched vitamin E plays a role not only as a natural anti-oxidant but also anti-elastase helpful for thining stretchmarks. In addition, shea butter has a excellent moisturizing effect, so it is used to maintain moisture of our skin and hair.

Bamboo usaully grows in Korea, Japan, China and Southeast Asia and its stem is empty compared to other poaceae. Its leaves are used for cooling down the fever or stopping bleeding in oriental medicine, and relieving inflammation in Indian folk remedy. Indeed, it has been reported that leaves helped reducing redness and swelling, main symptoms of inflammation and avonoids and alkiloids acted as a pain killer. Also, bamboo extract has an whitening effect by supressing the activity of tyrosinase.

Flax is an annual plants originated from Central Asia and mostly cultivated for producing linen, a type of textile. After the fruits are ripen in fall, seed are collected. Flaxseeds are used for reducing the symptoms accompanied by Hansen's disease, pruritis and loosing hair. It is known that ancient Egyptian doctors possessed flaxseeds all the time in readiness for treating unexpected diseases or food. Also, Hippocrates is also known to use them for relieving inflammation. Early European applied flaxseed oil to reduce aches in muscle, and the word 'Liniment' came from here.

LEVERON-A is a cosmetic ingredient which contains concentrated acteocide-an hydrophillic active substance derived from lemonverbena leaves. This product prevents oxidative stress resulting from free radicals and accumulation of AGE(Advanced Glycation End-product) which stimulates aging. Through these functions, it shows superb anti-aging effect.