What Does Trehalose Do For Skin?

What Does Trehalose Do For Skin?

Trehalose is a naturally occurring sugar, also known as trehalose or fusin, and is a non-reducing disaccharide composed of two pyranose ring glucose molecules connected by a 1,1-glycosidic bond. It is a safe, reliable, and natural sugar with unique properties. It can form a unique protective film on the cell surface under harsh environmental conditions such as high temperature, high cold, high osmotic pressure, and dryness and dehydration, effectively protecting protein molecules from denaturation and inactivation. In skin care products, it is known as the "sugar of life". Due to its unique biological activity and stability, it has become a star ingredient in modern skin care formulas, mainly reflected in its moisturizing, repairing, anti-aging, sun protection, and stabilization of active ingredients.

What Are The Benefits Of Trehalose For The Skin?

Moisturizing: It can effectively protect the epidermal cell membrane structure. The skin is easily disturbed by the outside world, loses moisture and becomes keratinized. Trehalose can form a special protective film, moisturize and condition the skin, maintain the original nutrition and moisture of the skin, and make the skin bright, shiny and tender.

Whitening and lightening: It can inhibit the production of melanin in the skin and promote the excretion of melanin, thus having a certain whitening and lightening effect, helping to improve skin pigmentation problems and make the skin more even and white.

Repairing the barrier: The polar groups such as carboxyl and hydroxyl groups of the sugar molecules in Trehalose form hydrogen bonds with water molecules and bind a large amount of water. As the extracellular gelatinous matrix of the skin, it provides moisture to the skin and maintains the balance of cell osmotic pressure, thereby protecting the skin. At the same time, it can also protect the orthorhombic crystal arrangement from being destroyed during the loss of ceramide, thereby protecting the skin barrier.

Antioxidant: It is a potential free radical scavenger. The reducing hydroxyl groups on its sugar ring can bind to the active oxygen in the lipid peroxidation chain reaction, thereby blocking the peroxidation and playing an antioxidant role. Trehalose can also remove free radicals generated by α and β rays, effectively protecting cell DNA from damage.

Radiation protection: It can remove free radicals generated by α and β rays, effectively protecting the skin from radiation damage. People who often use computers, mobile phones and other electronic devices for work are recommended to use skin care products containing trehalose.

Clearing inflammation: It can effectively remove free radicals, making cell DNA less likely to mutate. It is a protective factor and repair factor for skin cell DNA, which can effectively reduce the degree of damage. When strong ultraviolet rays are present, a special protective film is formed on the cell surface to avoid sunburn and reduce melanin deposition.

Resist skin aging: It has a moisturizing effect on the skin, a supporting effect on cells, and protects mitochondria to reduce damage, controls protein synthesis, and thus delays skin aging. It can also ensure the activity of life and cells in harsh environments, avoid melanin deposition on the skin, and prevent skin aging.

How Does Trehalose Improve Skin Moisturizing?

Trehalose enhances the moisturizing effect of the skin through multiple mechanisms, thus helping to maintain the skin's moisture and health.

Antioxidant: Its reducing hydroxyl groups can neutralize free radicals such as reactive oxygen species (ROS) and hydrogen peroxide, protect collagen and elastic fibers from oxidative damage, and delay photoaging.

Improve cell survival rate: When 0.25% to 1% trehalose is added, the survival rate of dehydrated epidermal cells can be significantly improved, cell integrity can be maintained, and the survival rate of epidermal cells can be improved.

Moisture absorption and moisturizing: Trehalose molecules contain multiple hydrophilic groups such as hydroxyl groups, which can form hydrogen bonds with water molecules, thereby absorbing and retaining a large amount of water. This hygroscopic ability enables trehalose to form a protective film on the skin surface, reduce water evaporation, and help keep the skin moisturized.

Its hygroscopic ability is not affected by the ambient humidity. Even in a low humidity environment, it can effectively provide moisturizing effects to the skin and help maintain the moisture balance of the skin.

Film-forming protection: It has good film-forming properties and can form a uniform film on the skin surface. This film can not only further reduce the evaporation of moisture on the skin surface, but also provide an additional protective layer to enhance the skin's barrier function.

This protective film helps the skin resist irritants and pollutants in the external environment, reduces the risk of skin damage, and is especially beneficial for sensitive skin.

Promote skin barrier repair: It can promote the repair and regeneration of skin cells and accelerate the recovery process of the skin barrier. By enhancing the skin barrier function, it can improve the skin's own moisturizing ability and reduce water loss. In addition, it can also soothe skin inflammation and allergic reactions, has a certain repair effect on damaged skin, and helps improve the overall health of the skin.

Through multiple mechanisms such as moisture absorption and moisturizing, film-forming protection and promoting skin barrier repair, it effectively enhances the skin's moisturizing effect and improves the skin's moisture and health. This makes trehalose an ideal moisturizing and skin protection ingredient in skin care products.

What Is The Antioxidant Effect Of Trehalose?

As a natural antioxidant, its antioxidant effect is significant and has many advantages.

Free radical scavenging ability: It can effectively remove free radicals in the skin, especially reactive oxygen free radicals (ROS), which are one of the main causes of skin aging and damage. Trehalose combines with free radicals through its unique molecular structure to block lipid peroxidation chain reactions, thereby reducing free radical damage to the skin.

Protecting biological molecules: It not only protects skin cells from damage by free radicals, but also stabilizes biological molecules such as proteins, lipids and DNA in cells to prevent structural and functional damage caused by oxidative stress. This helps maintain the normal function and health of skin cells.

Enhance cell resistance: In harsh environments, such as high temperature, dryness or high osmotic pressure, it can form a protective film on the surface of skin cells, enhance the skin barrier function, help skin cells resist the pressure of the external environment, and reduce the occurrence of oxidative damage.

Anti-inflammatory: It has a certain anti-inflammatory effect, can reduce skin inflammatory reactions, thereby indirectly reducing oxidative damage, and help maintain the health and stability of the skin.

Safety and stability: Compared with some synthetic antioxidants, as a natural ingredient, it usually has better safety and stability, is less likely to cause skin allergic reactions, and is suitable for long-term use. This makes trehalose an ideal antioxidant ingredient in skin care products.

It has a significant antioxidant effect, can effectively protect the skin from damage by the external environment, slow down the skin aging process, and has good safety and stability. It is a natural antioxidant worth recommending.

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