Snail Mucin a miracle for your skin?!?
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Snail Mucin for your face...it's been on the rise for a while, but lately it's been gaining momentum more than we're used to from snails ;-). Snail Mucin is praised to the skies as an effective remedy against wrinkles, scars, pigment spots, acne and is said to be super hydrating. But is snail slime really such a miracle for your skin? Let's find out!
Snail slime on your face...who came up with this?
Let's go back in time. Snail Mucin was already used by the Greeks and Romans as a remedy for wounds. If a Greek Adonis had an infection, he simply let a snail crawl on it!
But it only became popular later in Chile by "snail farmers". They noticed that their skin became very soft from working with snails. And so a cream was developed with snail slime.
What's in snail Mucin ?
Snail Mucin does indeed contain a number of skin-promoting "ingredients", namely:
- Allantoin
- Collagen
- Elastin
- Glycolic acid
- Vitamin A, C and E
The mucus acts as a lubricant for the snails to aid locomotion, as an adhesive to adhere to surfaces, as protection against dehydration, disease and predators, and for the repair of their damaged skin or shell.
If it has all these qualities for saving their own skin, why wouldn't it work the same for us?
So what does it do for our skin?
That your skin becomes soft from it, those Chilean farmers had already discovered, so that's one thing. The slime of the Snail is used for cosmetic products. It secretes a slime that contains antioxidants, hyaluronic acid, glycolic acid, glycoprotein enzymes, proteoglycans, antimicrobial substances and copper peptides. This stimulates the formation of collagen, elastin and minimizes free radical damage that causes skin aging and thus helps to reduce visible wrinkles and fine lines . In addition, snail slime has a moisturizing, antioxidant and restorative effect.
Do we have an answer to the question " Snail Mucin a miracle for your skin?!?"?
Yes dear people, this stuff keeps us looking young!
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