Glycoin
Chemical Name: 2-O-(α-D-Glucopyranosyl)-sn-glycerol
Chemical Formula: C₉H₁₈O₈
Molecular Weight: 254.23
CAS Registry Number: 22160-26-5
It is mainly derived from plants such as Selaginella lepidophylla, halotolerant cyanobacteria, and Myrothamnus flabellifolius. These plants can survive in harsh environments, largely due to the fact that Glycoin helps them maintain cell moisture and stabilize cell structure.
Chemical Formula: C₉H₁₈O₈
Molecular Weight: 254.23
CAS Registry Number: 22160-26-5
It is mainly derived from plants such as Selaginella lepidophylla, halotolerant cyanobacteria, and Myrothamnus flabellifolius. These plants can survive in harsh environments, largely due to the fact that Glycoin helps them maintain cell moisture and stabilize cell structure.
- Characteristics
- Small Molecular Weight: With a molecular weight of only 254 Da, it is approximately 30,000 times smaller than hyaluronic acid molecules, allowing it to easily penetrate into the dermis layer of the skin.
- Good Water Solubility: It is soluble in water, making it easy to mix evenly with other ingredients in product formulations such as cosmetics. It also facilitates skin absorption.
Efficacy - Moisturizing: It can significantly promote the synthesis of aquaporin 3 (AQP3), enhance the skin's own moisturizing ability, and make it easier for the moisture deep within the skin to be "pumped" to the epidermis. Fundamentally, it improves the ability of cells to actively absorb water.
- Soothing: It can inhibit the inflammatory response. For uncomfortable symptoms such as burning and redness that occur on the skin after sun exposure, it can quickly soothe the skin.
- Repairing: It has excellent wound-healing effects. It can induce the expression of fibroblast and keratinocyte growth factors, trigger the proliferation of dermal cells, enhance the expression of reactive oxygen species scavengers, and thus promote wound healing and tissue repair.
- Antioxidant: By increasing the content of superoxide dismutase 1 (SOD1) in aging cells, it enhances the antioxidant capacity of cells. The amount of SOD1 produced in cells treated with Glycoin is 280% higher than that in untreated cells. It can resist the damage of free radicals and prevent skin aging.
- Anti-aging: It can increase the vitality of aging cells by 170%, accelerate cell metabolism, and increase the production of collagen in aging cells by 36%, thus delaying skin aging.
Application Areas - Cosmetics Field: It is often added to products such as moisturizing creams, serums, and facial masks to help the skin hydrate, soothe, repair, resist oxidation, and prevent aging.
- Health Products Field: It can be used as an ingredient in health products, which helps maintain the health of human cells and improves the body's antioxidant capacity.
