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The ArdesBio line was born at the request of the most sensitive and careful with their own health consumers, those who believe in the plants properties wish for a return to the natural. The plants grown in a biological environment (far away of the polluting factors, untreated chemically, left to evolve in perfectly natural conditions) develope better their medicinal properties than the ones grown in usual conditions.Right for this reason, one decided the creation of a restricted line of products, to be used in the body cleaning (SHOWER GEL ORIENTAL FRUIT BIO WITH OATS AND PANSY; SHOWER GEL AFRICAN TEA BIO WITH OATS AND PANSY; INTIMATE BIO WITH OATS, PANSY AND GRAPEFRUIT SEEDS), and also in face cleaning and treating (DETERGENT AND TONIC 2 IN 1 BIO WITH OATS, COMMON BUR AND PANSY; SENSITIVE COMPLEXION BIO CREAM WITH OATS; ANTI-WRINKLES BIO CREAM WITH OATS AND PANSY). These are the first biological products in Romania. Will follow other additions, with products that will come to meet the "biological" demands. The active principles are: - oats extract; - common br extract; pansy (Heart's Ease herb); - sodium salt from Carbosilic Pirolidon Acid.The oats extract - INCI formula: Avena sativa (oats), glycerina, butylena, glycol, water. Properties: emollient, tonifiant, sedative. Main components: flavonoides (anti-inflammatory power), saponines, proteins, steroli (emollient power).Common bur extract: INCI formula: Articum lappa, glycerina, butylemne, glycol, water. Properties: anti-seborrheic and anti-exematous. Main components: inuiline (regulates the bacterial flora), flavonoides (tonify), tannins (astringent), essential oil, minerals, proteins, steroli.Pansy extract - INCI formula: Viola tricolor, glycerina, butylena, glycol, water. Properties: salicilates (anti-bacterial), flavonoides (anti-inflammatory), mugilagini (moisturizing), C vitamin, tannins, flavonoides (free radicals scavengers).The three prime matters are extracted with the use of microwaves. The microwaves are a part of the electromagnetic spectre. These specific waves can be used to selectively penetrate the plant's tissues, determining a spontaneos opening of the cellular membrane, that will this leave outside its content, in an environment made of glycerin and butylenic glycol. This process allows the preserving of the cell's component without harming the content and having it degraded, as it happens so often in the traditional extraction methods.In the DETERGENT AND TONIC 2 IN 1 BIO WITH OATS, and in the SHOWER GEL, are involved the acyl-glutamates, tensioactives anionic derivated from the L-glutamic acid (which is an aminoacid), and a natural fat acid (in the specified case, it's a cocoyl glutamate), Acyl-glutamates are endowed with excellent dermatologic properties and are considered hypoallergenic and non-comedogenic.Contrary to the tensioactives in normal use, they moisturize the folds, instead of drying them, and they don't modify the natural pH. They wash in an intelligent and selective way, removing the most delicately the sebum part that's better to maintain (the lypids in the epidermic cells) and they act more precisely over the part that's better to get rid of (ther lypids in the sebaceous glands). In the creams is inserted also the sodium salt from the carbosilic pyrolidon acid, having a great emollient power. This prime matter is extremely certain and has a great bio-compatibility, being present in a natural way at the cutaneous level (they belong to those called N.M.R. - Natural Moisturizing Factor). The salt obtained from this acid retains the water, thus giving a feeling of moisturizing at the cutaneos level.It has been proved that the cosmetic product that contain it in a higher percentage than 2% improve notably the cutaneous moisturizing. The carbosilic pyrolidon acid rezults to be one of the decomposing products from the phillagrine, a pretine produced be the keratinocytes, that's able to get tied to the keratine filaments, to enlive the complex keratines in the corn layer, indispensable to guarantee the moisturizing degree. The Ardes products are NATURAL: except their natural active principles, one selects also additives coming from the nature itself.For example, the tensioactives in shamppos are derivated from sugar and coco. The substances that make the product more dense are, at their turn, derivated from cellulosis. Further, shampoos don't contain sodium lauril-sulphates (S.L.S. and S.L.E.S.). Ardes manufactures 12 types of shampoos that don't contain S.L.S. and S.L.E.S.! And here we get to the problems from the "natural" field: with natural cosmetics, one perpetuates the absurd concept according which more important is what they do NOT contain, than what they effectively contain! For example, the rich creams specific to Ardes, where the label lists a series of substances that certain products don't contain. The specific rich creams contain, in average, a hight percentage of active principles, inscribed on the label: calendula 20%, iperico 20%, Chilian rose 10%, African tea 10%.In the world of the "natural" is very fashionable the discussion about natural conservants and traditional conservants. Important: every day appear new informations that pull alarm signals about the ingredients used in cosmetics. Very often, one fabricates news without any true basis, and even the qotes sources are unreal, and the scientific data are often totally invented. For instance, two tears ago one used to talk a lot about parabens. Well, parabens were always among the best tolerated preservatives in the cosmetic and pharmaceutic ambient.Some people circulated e-mails stating that in the breast tumors were discovered paraben traces. The COLIPA society is the one that studies scientifically, at European level, the cosmetic world. One discovered that metyl-paraben and etyl-parabene are safe for cosmetic use, but other voices spoiled the reputation of these substances, and the world believes that they are dangerous - when, in fact, there are much more dangerous preservatives, that were not submitter, however, to a diffamatory campaign.Other voices, about five years ago, spoke in a negative way about S.L.S. and S.L.E.S. These tensioactives are, for certain, aggressive, and it's normal to avoid their use in cosmetics; they should be meant only for industrial detergents. But those same voices were attributing cancerigene effects to S.L.S. and S.L.E.S. - in approximately 40% of cases - which is absolutely false! We are careful about everything and, for this reason, when these voices (e-mails) started to travel all over the network, us, Ardes Cosmetici, we had ceased for a long time to include in shampoos and cleansing milks the sodium lauril-sulphates! On all our shampoos and shower gels we have been writing: "S.L.S. & S.L.E.S. free"!Important: the lauril-sulphates are very aggressive tensioactives (weak for washing), if they are used in high percentages (more than 10%) in detergents (shampoo and shower gel). They are not, however, aggressive, when used in small percentages (less than 1%), as emulsifiers, to support the cream. For your info: a low percentage of S.L.S. is present, as a co-emulsifier, in our massage creams of the Linia Oana Turcu. Important questions and answers: 1) Why buy ARDESBIO, and not another cosmetic product?ARDESBIO is a cosmetics line with active principles coming from biological cultures, thought over with a great attention to quality. The ATDESBIO prices are aligned with those of any natural cosmetic from the market, if not even cheaper. In conclsion: active biological principles, high quality, competitive price in comparison with other products. What reason to chose another cosmetic? 2) Can a cosmetic be completely biologic?It's obvious that most of the ingredients in a cosmetic are not and can't be biologic - as, for instance: an emulgator, a tensioactive, a conservant, an additive. Certificator specialists defined a series of substances, among the additives, that can be tolerated in a bio cosmetic, even if they are not themselves biological. As such, they made a YES set of substances, and a NO set. But, until now, there isn't any international European normative, as there is in the alimentary sector. When this one will exist, things will becom equitable for all. 3) Why did you put preservatives?The preservatives are included into the cosmetic products for the purpose of avoiding the bacteria and must proliferation (especially the pathogene ones, that are in measure of transmitting illnesses to people) and other microorganisms, that if applied on the skin can do harm. For some time one talks, at a pioneering level, about natural preservatives. Even if Ardes works with a great responsibility, in an ambient with controlled atmosphere of pharmaceutic class, we don't feel safe enough to use, as a unique conserving system, natural preservatives. In case of incidents, the few benefits obtained only in the commercial ambient would have get transformed, ethically and practically, into a disaster. We decided to make two systems join: part of the preservatives used in the Ardes ranges are of a natural kind (grapefruit seeds), and part of them are of a traditional kind, used in a responsible way. Ardes sustains that natural preservatives are not yet safe, so our prodcts are conserved in a traditional way, but carefully. Ardes works in a lab of the highest pharmaceutic standard (which are more restrictive than the cosmetic ones). The air in our labs is recycled and filtered 20 times a hour, with such tiny flters, that dust and microorganism can't pass over, if they are larger than 0.2 microns.besides this, we treat the water used in the products with a multistadium method: 1 filter of pre-treatment and anti-clorine, 2 reverse osmosis, 3 pharmaceutical absolute filters, with 0.2 microns holes (20 times smaller than a bacteria), 4 unltraviolet treatments (safety finale with a wavelenght of 253.7). In conclusion: this treatment applied to air and water, only physically and chemically, so without adding any harmful substance to air and water, offer the possibility to have a nigh level of qality for the final product, from the microbiological point of view. For this, we can make a moderate use of preservatives: 50 g in a quantity of 100 kg product. So, YES to traditional preservatives (for reasons of product safety) - but in a responsible way! 4) The client: "I won't buy, it contains preservatives, it's not biologic!" Can a cosmetic product be completely biologic? The answer is: NO. In any case, ARDESBIO is realised with biological active principles. Next to an ARDESBIO product is placed a traditional one, at the same price. What would you buy? And what if the ARDESBIO price is more attractive than the traditional one? |
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