Coconut Fruit Extract

A natural history

Across the tropics the coconut palm is lovingly called the tree of life, because almost every part of it gives something useful, from food and drink to shelter and skin care. Coastal cultures have reached for the coconut's water and tender flesh for centuries to hydrate and soothe skin and hair under a hot sun, a beauty habit as old as the palm itself.

The coconut is also a great wanderer. Its buoyant, water resistant husk lets the fruit float across whole oceans and still sprout where it washes ashore, which is how the palm seeded itself onto distant tropical coasts around the world. Modern skin care draws on a gentle coconut fruit extract for a newer purpose: helping support the skin's own community of microbes, its microbiome, for a calm, balanced complexion.

What it does for your skin

Coconut from the fruit has a long, well earned reputation for comfort. In a controlled study, coconut applied to dry skin significantly improved hydration and surface lipids, as effective as a standard moisturizer and gentle on the skin's barrier.^[1] Skin care increasingly looks to ingredients that support the skin's microbiome, the community of microbes that helps keep the barrier calm and balanced, an emerging and promising field.^[2] In a formula coconut fruit extract helps skin look hydrated, comfortable, and balanced.

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