Fungi in your Face Cream! All about mushrooms.

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Fungi has been included in the natural medical and nutrition basket for many years, what we wanted to know was “what about for skincare”?    It seems that many well known brands are adding mushroom extracts to their “anti-ageing” ranges – Estee Lauder, Origins and Aveena come immediately to mind making us think that there must be more to the mushroom than meets the eye. Let’s investigate!

While there are thousands of types of fungi - derived from the Latin word for mushroom only a handful have been studied for their effects on the skin.  A “hero”  mushroom as far as skincare is concerned is the Hypsizygus ulmarius – one of the fungi found in all three of the brands listed above. Others demonstrating potential topically are Shiitake and Reishi types.

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