Mid Brain reports:
I’m more of a beer person myself, but here’s good news for the red wine fans in the Beauty Brains community: a new technology that can turn vino into skin creams (and more.)
Red wine technology
ScienceDaily reports that the German chemical analysis company Spectral Service in partnership with Technologie-Transfer-Zentrum (TTZ)) and the Spanish natural cosmetics company Alfaverde Productos Naturales, have developed a powdered version of red wine that can be used in skin creams as well as foods and drinks.
The trick was to develop a gentle drying process that did not use heat that could destroy the active ingredients (proteins and polyphenols) They found that skin creams formulated with this powder had potential anti-wrinkle effects. It’s a little bit weird though, because the cream starts out with a violet color that fades as the product is absorbed into the skin.
Red Green
From a “green” perspective, this is a great technology because it creates a new, useful raw material from a red wine by-product that can no longer be dumped on land (according to European regulations.) Just in Germany alone, there are about 120,000 hectolitres of wine by-products, enough to produce 12,000 tonnes of dried red wine powder.
The Beauty Brains bottom line
It’s great to see companies researching ingredients that are both efficacious and environmentally friendly.
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“It’s a little bit weird though, because the cream starts out with a violet color that fades as the product is absorbed into the skin.”
Some kid’s sunscreens do this. Helps you see where it’s being applied. As for the wine-waste-for-skin-cream…cool! I’m always up for ways to use waste products responsibly. I just hope they don’t screw it up with perfumes and weight loss claims.
“… the cream
starts out with a violet color that fades as the product is absorbed
into the skin.”
I’ve got to call BS on this. I would have to have it demonstrated to me that this isn’t just a reverse version fo the o-glow blush nonsense. I’ll bet you a steak dinner that the stuff has a red dye in it that fades in the presence of oxygen.
In the first paragraph you say “a powdered version of red wine that can be used in skin creams as well as foods and drinks.” Then in the next you say “a red wine by-product” so which is it?
This is interesting. I haven’t heard much about wine as skincare yet, so I’m curious to see where it will go.
I use Cetaphil to clean and some of Origins products for brightening and exfoliation.
I actually found some awesome products (with help from my friend who is an esthetician in a spa), that work to brighten my skin using wine. I normally don’t like “natural” products because they typically do not work, but I love these products. They come from a small company called d’vine, but are worth checking out. I was warned though, that since they are “active naturals” that sunscreen needs to be worn. If any one is interested, I googled d’vine, the company: http://www.dvinellc.com/the_products/
Companies always seek to turn their biproducts into products. But this seems more logically beneficial than say, aluminum biproducts used in anti-perspirant. And i heard ingesting red wine provides a healthful skin benefit.
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