Confirming on its expertise in active anti-aging ingredients, Seppic completes its offering for mature skin with an ingredient designed to combat sagging skin: Sagacious.
Inspired by the natural world around us, Seppic created Sagacious, an active ingredient that acts globally on all skin layers. Skin is significantly firmer, and signs of sagging are less visible.
Sagacious is a biomimetic active ingredient inspired by the behavior of plants on the International Space Station, which synthesize specific molecules from the glycolipid family to maintain their integrity in weightlessness. Seppic has succeeded in extracting this family of molecules from the algae Himanthalia elongata thanks to the eco-designed and patented "Heart of Algae" process.
Himanthalia elongata is a brown seaweed harvested with respect for biodiversity in France.
Sagacious improves skin firmness, eight times more than placebo, and reduces the visibility of nasolabial folds (clinically proven after 28 days).
Seppic's research and innovation teams also evaluated in vitro its mode of action, proving a restoration of the biomechanical properties of fibroblasts close to those of a fibroblast 28 years younger, thanks to the synthesis of key molecules at the level of the different skin layers:
- At the dermal-epidermal junction for better cohesion between dermis and epidermis,
- In the dermis for improved biomechanical and tensor properties of fibroblasts,
- At the dermo-hypodermal junction for better cohesion between dermis and hypodermis. This is Seppic's new approach to an in-depth and efficient anti-aging strategy.
In compliance with Chinese regulations, Sagacious is also Cosmos and Natrue approved, with a naturalness level of 100 % according to ISO 16128.
Audrey Bonnard, Asset Product Manager at Seppic, said: "Sagacious is an innovative active ingredient, thanks to its biomimetic sourcing and Seppic's patented eco-designed process, which for the first time extracts glycolipids from seaweed. Himanthalia elongata. All this for a proven and visible efficacité as early as one month on the signs of facial sagging."
