Research Progress on the Applications of Active Substances from Fermented Plant Materials in Cosmetics
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Plants, especially medicinal plants, contain a variety of active substances such as polysaccharides, polypeptides, polyphenols, amino acids, etc., and the carbonaceous substances stored in plants account for 80% of those in all the organisms, which have a broad application prospect in cosmetics. However, the effective ingredients in natural plant materials are relatively low, and the traditional extraction processes are inefficient and even result in some toxic components with side-effects in the extracts, thereby affecting their applications in cosmetic raw materials. These problems can be solved by microbial fermentation of plant raw materials or their extracts, by which the release of active substances is promoted, these active substances are enriched or transformed into new active substances, their efficacies can be enhanced and expanded, and toxic side effects are reduced. Plant active substances derived from fermentation have multiple functions such as antibacterial, whitening, antioxidative, anti-inflammatory, and collagen regeneration-promoting effects, which lead to broad application prospects in the cosmetics products.
