“Good medicine tastes bitter”, said Confucius. Indeed, many active pharmaceutical ingredients taste bitter, manifesting the cross-cultural believe that the bitterness of medicine is correlated with beneficial pharmacological activity. Bitter taste receptors have recently been discovered in skin. Their activation triggers the synthesis of skin barrier lipids, making them novel targets for the treatment of sensitive skin. Glycyrrhetinic acid from Licorice roots on the other hand is a well-known natural ingredient to combat inflammation.
With Amaretine®, Lipoid Kosmetik offers the first active ingredient combining a bitter and sweet component embedded in a liposomal carrier system to synergistically targets all aspects of sensitive skin.
The article about our new active ingredient Amaretine® and its novel way to sooth sensitive skin was published in the Personal Care Global issue 4/2023 and can be found here.