Asian J Beauty Cosmetol. 2013; 11(2): 203-212.
The Development Trend of Skin Beauty Food with Skin Protection Effects from Natural Source
ABSTRACT
The newest trend in skin care is the use of nutrients and supplements to produce an appearance benefit. As the economy has stabilized, quality of life, physical health and beauty has increased interest along with the desire for outward beauty. Therefore, relative activities in beauty skin care, as anti-wrinkle, moisturizer, promote elasticity increased that find new natural materials out for skin biological target and growing interest showing high efficacy with small amount. Specific positive effects of inner beauty food namely nutrients or nutricosmetic compounds on skin conditions may prove to be a biologically relevant and may consequently allow for claims on products containing these compounds. Recently, a lot of inner beauty food compounds as vitamin, mineral, and phytochemicals became known facts that play an important role in the health of skin care field. Expert in the fields of nutricosmetic met at the conference in June 2011 to elucidate the current status of nutricosmetic compounds market and to summarize its market share. The 46 % of market shared with vitamin and carotenoid compounds on nutricosmetics market of North America and European country. The aims of this review, after presenting general aspects about historical trends of beauty industry, is to give an overview of the current nutrition and nutricosmetic compounds as an inner beauty food (mainly vitamins, carotenoids and fruit extracts) for maintaining and improving skin condition.
Keywords :
Beauty Food, Nutricosmetic, Natural source, Inner nutrition, Phytochemicals