1Professor, Dept. Beauty Art, Seokyeong Univ., Sungbuk-gu, Seoul, Korea, 02713
2Professor, Dept. Chemical Engineering, Soongsil Univ., Dongjak-gu, Seoul, Korea, 06978
*Corresponding Author: Hye-Jin Kwon, Professor, Division of Chemical Engineering, Soongsil University, Korea. Email: kwonhj0070@ssu.ac.kr
Online published on 24 April, 2019.
The purpose of this study is to develop raw materials of Korean herbal medicine cosmetics that can improve aging skin of middle-aged women through the analysis of anti-oxidation and anti-aging using domestic PolygonumMultiflorum.
Extraction, anti-aging and antioxidant experiments were designed and performed by synthesizing previous studies based on scientific evidence and a prescription in Donguibogam (Treasured Paragon of Eastern Medicine) that utilized Polygonum Multiflorum for regaining vigor and rejuvenating at an old age.
The result of this study showed that Polygonum Multiflorum presented high anti-oxidation effect from the analysis of Polyphenol, Flavonoid, and DPPH and it also has an excellent inhibiting ability, showing great possibility to be used as a material for functional cosmetics. Moreover, it showed a significant synergy effect in composites mixed with other raw materials at a small mixing quantity.
it has a great potential to be developed as a natural material for complex cosmetics in future.
Polygonum Multiflorum, natural material, complex cosmetics, skin aging, middle-aged women, Korean herbal
