Skin Care Insider

Biosurfactant compounds typically work just as well as their chemically based counterparts, but without causing environmental harm. Biosurfactants are typically biodegradable and don’t have the negative health effects chemicals can produce. And some may have “prebiotic” characteristics, making them beneficial to the skin.

Retinol is a form of vitamin A, which is known to be an effective wrinkle-fighter. 

Researchers found that people who take folic acid had improved reflex vasodilation, meaning that their blood vessels dilated in response to heat stress, compared to a placebo group. It seemed to do this by helping the skin become more sensitive to the messages the central sympathetic nervous system was sending.