Plum Extract

A natural history

The plum is one of the oldest cultivated fruits of the Old World, grown around the Caucasus and across Europe for some two thousand years, its stones found among the earliest orchards beside grapes, olives, and figs. Sweet and richly colored, the fruit has always been treasured, eaten fresh and dried, and carried along ancient trade routes as a nourishing, antioxidant rich food.

Its flower is just as beloved. The plum blossom opens on bare branches in the cold of late winter, before a single leaf appears, which is why so many cultures have made it a symbol of beauty and quiet resilience, the first to bloom while everything else still sleeps. That same fruit, deeply colored by its antioxidant skin, is what skin care draws upon today.

What it does for your skin

The plum is an antioxidant rich fruit, its deep color the sign of generous polyphenols. Laboratory analysis identified dozens of antioxidant polyphenols in the skin and flesh of the plum, with real free radical scavenging strength.^[1] A second study confirmed the fruit's high phenolic content, concentrated in the skin, closely tied to its antioxidant power.^[2] In a formula plum extract works as an antioxidant rich botanical that helps defend the look of skin against everyday stress and keep it looking fresh. That fresh, defended look is documented in laboratory antioxidant studies of its polyphenols.

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