Natural, sustainable, and cruelty-free – these are three qualities that people are increasingly prioritizing when they’re on the hunt for new skincare products, making it no surprise that plant-based skincare ingredients have experienced a huge surge in popularity. However, while there may be hundreds of natural superstars out there, there’s one ingredient in particular that everyone has been talking about lately…
Cucumber fruit extract. While the humble cucumber may not seem very glamorous, you’ll have a whole new respect for this vegetable (technically, it’s a fruit) once you understand exactly what it could do for your skin. Keep reading as Celestolite takes you through it!
Cucumber Fruit Extract: Skincare’s New Superstar
Cucumber fruit extract is exactly as it sounds – an extract that has been taken from the fruit of a cucumber. It can be grown and harvested sustainably and ethically, with those same cucumbers also being used to produce cucumber fruit water to prevent waste.
Of course, many other plant-based ingredients can be grown and harvested in line with modern-day standards. So, what makes cucumber fruit extract so special? Let’s take a closer look…
Intense Hydration
People are always looking for the next best hydrating ingredient, and cucumber fruit extract is a strong contender. Cucumbers consist of 95% water, with the extract having a very high moisture content too. On top of that, the polysaccharides in cucumber fruit extract act as a humectant. This enables the extract to bind moisture to the skin, providing instant hydration.
Lightens the Look of Dark Spots
People often turn to harsh ingredients when trying to tackle the appearance of dark spots and discoloration. However, cucumber fruit extract can do this too, without harming your skin in the process. Studies show that in just 72 hours, cucumber fruit extract is capable of significantly reducing the visibility of excess melanin in the skin. It’s a great natural alternative to some of the more aggressive complexion-lightening ingredients out there.
Packed With Powerful Antioxidants
While all plant extracts contain antioxidants, cucumber fruit extract boasts some particularly potent compounds. Vitamin C can be found in large amounts in this botanical, as can caffeic acid. There are plenty of other flavonoids and phenolic compounds in there, too. All of these contribute to the ingredient’s ability to mitigate the visibility of environmental damage. Thanks to its vast antioxidants, cucumber fruit extract effectively fights the appearance of UV damage, wrinkles, sagging skin, and more.
Soothes the Feeling of Inflammation and Irritation
Not only do the antioxidants in cucumber fruit extract help with the appearance of environmental damage, but those same compounds, combined with the tannins and amino acids in the extract, enable it to soothe the feeling of inflammation and irritation too. Whether your skin feels red, swollen, itchy, or anything else, cucumber fruit extract will leave it looking much calmer and happier.
Regulates an Oily Complexion
Struggling with oily skin? While there are plenty of ingredients out there that can remove excess oil from the face, encouraging your skin to cut back on how much sebum it produces in the first place is a much better long-term strategy. With cucumber fruit extract, that mission becomes much easier. This ingredient helps to regulate how greasy the skin feels, making it a great one to use if you have oily skin.
Adding Cucumber Fruit Extract to Your Skincare Routine
Want to add cucumber fruit extract to your skincare routine? Here are a few products from Celestolite that have been formulated with the ingredient:
The Estrella Facial Toner
Let’s start with the Celestolite Estrella Facial Toner. This product gives you the opportunity to apply cucumber fruit extract directly to your freshly cleansed skin cells. The ingredient will be able to soak in without being hindered by any other products that have been applied beforehand.
This toner highlights some of the main benefits offered by cucumber fruit extract by combining it with other ingredients that have a similar effect on the skin. Aloe vera, for instance, is revered for how it hydrates and soothes the complexion, just like cucumber fruit extract. Chamomile helps in lowering the feeling of inflammation, while witch hazel extract keeps the skin looking matte and pores looking invisible. All in all, it’s a blend that feels gentle, soothing, and ultra-refreshing. It’s the perfect way to introduce this ingredient to your skin.
The Estrella Hydrating Eye Cream
Thanks to how gentle cucumber fruit extract is, it’s a popular ingredient to use on the more delicate areas of skin, such as the skin around the eyes. With the skin here being much thinner, it’s even more prone to visible damage than the rest of the face – something that cucumber fruit extract can help to prevent.
The Celestolite Estrella Hydrating Eye Cream provides the perfect opportunity to treat your eye area to cucumber fruit extract. This formula uses the ingredient to smooth away the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, while giving the eye area a brighter finish. This is enhanced by the inclusion of peptides, caffeine, jojoba seed oil, and other skincare superstars.
The Luna Luminous Touch
Cucumber fruit extract is a useful ingredient to have around if you’re planning on using any powerful actives on your skin. Thanks to how it keeps the skin feeling calm and balanced, it counters the feeling of irritation that potent actives can sometimes trigger.
This is one of the reasons why we’ve included cucumber fruit extract in the Celestolite Luna Luminous Touch. This moisturizer contains retinol, which is an ingredient that can take some getting used to. The cucumber fruit extract will make that process easier. It will keep your skin feeling happy while the retinol works its magic on your complexion. The result is skin that looks significantly brighter, tighter, and smoother.
The Estrella Age-Revive Treatment
Thanks to how hydrating and soothing cucumber fruit extract feels, it can produce visible results very quickly. The moisture boost that it provides gives the skin a plumper and fuller finish. Meanwhile, the calming sensation it bestows will clear the visibility of redness to give the skin a more even appearance.
The Celestolite Estrella Age-Revive Treatment makes the most of those fast-acting effects by combining cucumber fruit extract with other ingredients that also get to work straight away. Between sodium hyaluronate, acetyl hexapeptide-8, squalane, grape seed extract, and DMAE, it’s easy to see how this high-performance solution is able to instantly leave the skin looking smoother, firmer, and younger.
Plant-Based Skincare Ingredients: Other Hidden Gems
Cucumber fruit extract used to be an ingredient that many people didn’t pay much attention to. Now, however, it’s much more appreciated!
With that said, there are so many other underrated plant-based skincare ingredients around. Some, like cucumber fruit extract, could have a transformational effect on your complexion. Let’s take a look at some other hidden gems:
Alteromonas Ferment Extract
Fermented skincare ingredients are having a moment. With these ingredients known for supporting the skin’s microbiome and, therefore, the skin barrier, people have started flocking to them.
One such ingredient is Alteromonas ferment extract. It’s a polysaccharide that’s extracted from a bacterium that grows in the deep sea. Like cucumber fruit extract, it has moisture-binding properties. It’s also a great ingredient for tackling the appearance of aging.
Give it a try for yourself with the Celestolite Estrella Anti-Wrinkle Syringe. This solution also boasts a trio of peptides, a vitamin duo, and a splash of sodium hyaluronate. These ingredients enable it to quickly make any fine lines and wrinkles look less noticeable.
Acai Berry Extract
You can’t really go wrong when it comes to superfood extracts in your skincare. These foods are famous for having a very high antioxidant content, with your skin benefiting from direct access to them when those ingredients are applied topically.
Acai berry extract is one such superfood extract. It’s packed with anthocyanins, which are powerful antioxidants that fight the appearance of free radical damage.
Although acai berry extract isn’t commonly used in skincare, you’ll find it in the Celestolite Jade Spectra Mask, along with a long list of other superfood extracts. With bilberry, pomegranate, chokeberry, and more, this mask is absolutely brimming with some of the best antioxidants around.
Sichuan Pepper Extract
Sichuan pepper extract is quite a unique ingredient in that it imparts a slight tingling sensation when it’s applied. This is down to certain active compounds within the ingredient, like alpha-hydroxy-sanshool. They stimulate the complexion in a way that provides a short-term lifting and tightening effect on the look of the skin.
With Sichuan pepper extract also containing an array of antioxidants, it will work to give your skin a more youthful finish in the long run too. This is why we’ve used it in the Celestolite Jade Spectra Night Capsules. This formula brings together a few other antioxidant-rich plant-based ingredients, along with sodium hyaluronate to quench thirsty skin cells.
Hydrolyzed Coral Seaweed Extract
Seaweed extract is a popular skincare ingredient. It’s known for being extremely hydrating, as well as for soothing the look of inflammation. Thanks to its natural minerals and other compounds, it has a very calming and balancing effect on the complexion.
Coral seaweed takes things further with unique compounds that also work to give the skin a bouncier and more elastic feel. When hydrolyzed, which essentially means chopped up into smaller pieces, the ingredient has a much easier job penetrating the skin. This means that all of its benefits are felt on a deeper level.
You’ll find hydrolyzed coral seaweed extract in a few Celestolite products, including the Mars Anti-Gravity Mask. It’s joined by several other hydrating and antioxidant-rich ingredients, which is how this mask is able to effectively repair the appearance of aging and damaged skin.
Knowing Your Skincare Ingredients
There are some excellent plant-based skincare ingredients out there, making it worth spending some time doing some research and pinpointing exactly what your skin needs. Start with cucumber fruit extract – it’s an amazing all-rounder that everyone would benefit from – before exploring some of the other lesser-known ingredients we’ve featured above.
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