Product Name | Sponge Spicule |
Botanical Source | Spongilla Lacustris Extract |
Appearance | White Crystalline Powder |
Assay | 99.9% |
Grade | Cosmetic Grade |
Brand | Greenway |
Hydrolyzed sponge called freshwater sponges, and about 20 species, they live in fresh water, commonly in the clean lakes and streams. It with soft and fine structure, with appearance of shell like or branched clumps. You can find them live on the surface of aquatic plants, leaves and stones, due to the parasites such as algae living on the surface of sponges, it always show colors such as gray, brown or green.Hydrolyzed sponge, it looks very soft, it will be mistaken for a plant by most people, in fact, it is a kind of animal.
Freshwater sponges gradually evolved the special bone, that's spongilla spicules, which is a siliceous spicules, very small, but has a stronger hardness, for supporting the sponge body and resisting the enemy's invasion. Spongilla spicules constituted by hard protein and heteronuclear hard protein, do not dissolve in any kind of organic solution, therefore, can be used as a kind of ideal natural materials in cosmetics and skin peeling curing.
Spongilla Spicule is extracted from freshwater sponge, it's a kind of bio needle which is gradually evolved by freshwater sponge in order to adapt the living environment. It's a very tiny spicule and you can't see it by your naked eyes. It's essentially a kind of acicular silica bone, so it's called spongilla spicule. The sponge microneedle can stimulate the dermis layer of the skin, initiate microcirculation on the surface of the skin, improve the clogging of the capillary pores, and accelerate the natural exfoliation of the aged horny layer, shorten the skin renewal period from 28 days to 1 week. The spongilla spicules powder with purity up to 98% could be used to any kind of cosmetics. Its special function makes it to be an ideal, wide-use and low side effect cosmetic ingredient.
It helps to avoid infection caused by skin damage. So, it's an ideal natural origin ingredient and could be used on the skin for a long time to cure acne, pimple, folliculitis and oily skin, with multi skincare function of skin polishing, oil skin-balance, pimple removal (especially for silent acnes), whitening & spot solution, tightness and pore minimizing etc.