An isolated bioactive compound from Gotu Kola. It increases collagen and hyaluronic acid production in the skin and helps to treat wounds, scars, and burns.
Functions
Anti-Wrinkle
Anti-Wrinkle
Anti-wrinkle ingredients prevent the formation or reduce the appearance of wrinkles.
Anti-Wrinkle
Anti-Wrinkle
Anti-wrinkle ingredients prevent the formation or reduce the appearance of wrinkles.
Origin
Botanical,
Botanical
Ingredients derived from plants, mosses, and lichens: extracts, oils, powders, juices and other types of processed plant materials.
Botanical,
Botanical
Ingredients derived from plants, mosses, and lichens: extracts, oils, powders, juices and other types of processed plant materials.
Synthetic
Synthetic
All kinds of ingredients formulated or produced by a chemical process, or those that have a chemical modification in their structure.
Synthetic
Synthetic
All kinds of ingredients formulated or produced by a chemical process, or those that have a chemical modification in their structure.
Madecassic acid is an isolated bioactive compound with wound healing properties from Centella asiatica (or Gotu Kola), a plant used in the traditional medicine of Southeast Asian countries like Sri Lanka.
Madecassic acid seems to be a prospective bioactive compound in dermatology because of the results from test-tube and animal studies. It mays be able to treat wounds, scars, and burns in a way that increases the production of collagen and hyaluronic acid in the skin. This would also make it a prospective anti-wrinkle treatment, but, naturally, more studies on real humans are necessary.
You can find madecassic acid in your skincare product as it is, as madecassoside (which has three additional sugar molecules attached to it for better solubility), or as part of the whole Gotu Kola extract.
Read more about Centella asiatica here: Centella Asiatica Extract.
Science
1
Bylka, W., et al. (2014). Centella asiatica in Dermatology: An Overview. Phytotherapy Research, 28(8), 1117–1124.
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