Danshen Root Extract

What is Danshen Root Extract?

Danshen Root Extract is mainly extracted from the roots and rhizomes of Salvia miltiorrhiza Bunge. It contains a variety of bioactive ingredients, such as tanshinone and salvianolic acid compounds, as well as vitamin A and trace elements such as iron and potassium. These ingredients give Salvia Miltiorrhiza Extract a variety of pharmacological effects, mainly including anti-oxidation, improvement of heart disease, inhibition of platelet aggregation, and reduction of hyperlipidemia.

It has a wide range of applications. In addition to medicine and health products, it has also shined in cosmetic applications in recent years. In cosmetics and skin care products, it mainly acts as an antioxidant, skin conditioner, and anti-inflammatory agent, and is a relatively safe skin care ingredient.

Main Ingredients

Fat-soluble ingredients
Tanshinones: such as tanshinone I, tanshinone II-a, tanshinone II-b, cryptotanshinone, easy tanshinone-I, easy tanshinone-II, isocrypttanshinone, etc.
Other diterpenoids: such as dihydrotanshinone, tanshinone, hydroxytanshinone, etc.

Water-soluble ingredients
Phenolic acid derivatives: such as tanshinone, protocatechuic aldehyde, protocatechuic acid, etc.
Salvnic acid: including tanshinone a-k, rosmarinic acid, etc.

Functions of Salvia Miltiorrhiza Extract

Antibacterial and anti-inflammatory
It has significant antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effects and is often used in acne-removing products. Tanshinone is highly sensitive to Propionibacterium acnes and can effectively inhibit bacterial growth and maintain the balance of bacterial flora on the skin surface.

Antioxidant
Tanshinone and salvianolic acid B in the extract have strong antioxidant capacity, which can effectively remove oxygen free radicals, inhibit lipid peroxidation, and reduce the damage of free radicals to the skin, thereby preventing skin aging and pigmentation.

Promote blood circulation​​​​​​​
Danshen Root Extract can improve skin microcirculation, dilate blood vessels, increase blood supply and oxygen delivery to the skin, effectively improve facial edema, uneven skin color, and maintain a healthy skin condition.

Myocardial repair
It can delay the time of arterial hypoxia, reduce the damage of hypoxia to the myocardium, improve myocardial contractility, promote the regeneration of myocardial cells, and has a certain myocardial repair effect.

Lower blood lipids
It can inhibit the synthesis of endogenous cholesterol, reduce the production of low-density lipoprotein, and help prevent hyperlipidemia.

Improve microcirculation
It can improve the blood flow of capillaries, accelerate the expansion of capillaries, increase the number of open capillaries, and help improve microcirculation.

Application

Food additives
Due to its unique antioxidant and flavoring properties, it can be used as a functional food additive to enhance the taste and flavor of food, while providing antioxidant protection and extending the shelf life of food.

Health products
Used to develop foods with health functions, such as Danshen tea, Danshen beverage, etc.

Cosmetics industry
Due to its good antioxidant properties, it is widely used in skin care formulas. The number of high-end skin care brands using this ingredient has increased year by year, and its market share has continued to expand.

Medicine
Due to its effects of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, anti-aging, and anti-atherosclerosis, it is used to treat cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and regulate blood sugar and blood lipids.

Several applications of Salvia Miltiorrhiza Extract in cosmetics

Freckle removal and skin moisturizing
Danshen can dilate blood vessels, improve facial blood circulation, maintain blood vessel patency, thereby achieving the effect of freckle removal, improving skin color, and making the skin moisturized and shiny.

Delay skin aging
Danshen can also accelerate cell metabolism, facilitate the timely excretion of harmful substances from the body, and effectively prevent the accumulation of pigments, skin aging, etc.

Eliminate acne
The fat-soluble extract of Salvia miltiorrhiza has obvious antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effects on Corynebacterium acnes, and has good transdermal absorption. Among them, tanshinone can eliminate acne and pimples, regulate the water and oil balance of the skin, and promote microcirculation. Because tanshinone is highly sensitive to Propionibacterium acnes, it is suitable for various types of acne.

Black hair care
Used for gray hair, hair loss, dandruff, etc. In addition to being used in facial skin beauty and skin cosmetics, the vitamin E and trace elements such as zinc, copper, and iron contained in Salvia miltiorrhiza have the effect of growing black hair and can promote the growth of hair melanin. It is mainly used in hair cosmetics such as shampoo, hair mask conditioner and elastin to improve hair conditions that are detrimental to beauty, such as yellow hair, broken hair and gray hair.

Preparation Method

(1) Crush the washed and dried Salvia miltiorrhiza to powder and pass it through a 20-mesh sieve. Take the sieved material for later use.
(2) Add 500 g of Salvia miltiorrhiza powder to a sealed container with a stirrer, then add 100-200 ml of 95% ethanol solution, stir slowly to fully moisten the Salvia miltiorrhiza, and then let it stand for 0.5-1 hour to allow the Salvia miltiorrhiza to moisten and swell.
(3) Put the swollen Salvia miltiorrhiza into a percolation cylinder with a volume of 1000-1600 ml, put a piece of cylindrical filter paper of suitable shape on the top layer of Salvia miltiorrhiza, and put an appropriate amount of washed and dried fine sand on the paper. Connect a rubber tube to the bottom outlet of the percolation cylinder, and add 95% ethanol solution from the rubber tube until the liquid level of the ethanol solution is higher than the surface of Salvia miltiorrhiza, and then control the flow rate of the percolation liquid from bottom to top to 3-5 ml/min. Keep observing the color of the percolation liquid. When the color of the percolation liquid is light, the percolation can be completed.
(4) When the obtained filtrate is concentrated under reduced pressure to a concentration of about 1 mg of Salvia miltiorrhiza crude drug per ml, the extract is obtained.

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