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Carotenoids and polyphenols in nutricosmetics, nutraceuticals, and cosmeceuticals
Abstract
The market for cosmeceuticals continues with significant annual growth, but today consumers are more aware of nutritional products that contribute to both skin health and disease prevention. In the last 10 years, pharmacists, chemists, nutritionists, and physicians have been working together to develop new nutritional applications to satisfy people's needs and demands. As a recent result of convergence phenomenon between cosmetics and food industries, nutricosmetics is a blurry area unfamiliar to many consumers and sometimes even to foods and cosmetics experts. Characterized by oral supplementation of nutrients, nutricosmetics are also known as "beauty pills,""beauty from within," and even "oral cosmetics." The major claim is the antiaging effect, reducing wrinkles by fighting free radicals generated by solar radiation. Among the ingredients used in nutricosmetics, antioxidants represent the most crucial. The best-known antioxidants are carotenoids (beta-carotene, lycopene, lutein, zeaxanthin, and astaxanthin) and polyphenols (anthocyanidins, catechins, flavonoids, tannins, and procyanidins). This study presents an overview about the concept of nutricosmetics and gives us information about the difference between nutricosmetics, nutraceuticals, and cosmeceuticals. The article also discusses about carotenoids and polyphenols, two classes of ingredients often employed in such products.
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Beta-carotene, lutein, lycopene, and zeaxanthin contribute to UV photoprotection by scavenging ROS.
“Examples of carotenoids that contribute to UV photoprotection by scavenging ROS (Reactive Oxygen Species) include beta-carotene, lutein, lycopene, and zeaxanthin [11].”
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Plant polyphenols are considered important substances for skin function, with hydrating, smoothing, softening, soothing and astringent effects.
“Plant polyphenols are considered important substances for skin function, with hydrating, smoothing, softening, soothing and astringent effects [25,190,193,197,198,199].”
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The external application of preparations containing carotenoids in combination with oral supplementation has been shown to increase the concentrations of these compounds in the skin.
“The external application of preparations containing carotenoids in combination with oral supplementation has been shown to increase the concentrations of these compounds in the skin [25,230].”
From Bioactive Compounds for Skin Health: A Review (2021) · cites this paper as [25]
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Metadata
- Authors
- Anunciato, T. P., & da Rocha Filho, P. A.
- Affiliations
- Universidade de São Paulo (BR)
- Venue
- Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2012-02-24
- Volume
- 11
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 51-54
- ISSN
- 1473-2130 (ISSN-L)
- 1473-2165
- OpenAlex
- W2160001555
- Cited by
- 219
- References
- 21
- Citations by year
- 2026: 8 · 2025: 12 · 2024: 14 · 2023: 30 · 2022: 18 · 2021: 14 · 2020: 21 · 2019: 21 · 2018: 18 · 2017: 14 · 2016: 11 · 2015: 9 · 2014: 10 · 2013: 18 · 2012: 1
- FWCI
- 15.08
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Scientific Electronic Library Online (São Paulo Research Foundation, Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information, Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico) (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Dermatology › Skin Protection and Aging
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Biochemistry (medical) › Phytochemicals and Antioxidant Activities
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Biochemistry (medical) › Antioxidant Activity and Oxidative Stress
- Keywords
- nutricosmetics, nutraceuticals, cosmeceuticals, carotenoids, polyphenols, antioxidants, beta-carotene, lycopene, lutein, zeaxanthin, astaxanthin, anthocyanidins, catechins, flavonoids, tannins, procyanidins, anti-aging, skin health, free radicals, oral supplementation
- MeSH terms
- Antioxidants, Carotenoids, Cosmetics, Humans, Skin Aging, Dietary Supplements, Polyphenols
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