Black Rice Extract Fermentation for Skin Elasticity
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current skincare products fail to effectively inhibit skin aging, reduce wrinkles, enhance skin elasticity, and tighten skin due to limitations in inhibiting advanced glycation end product (AGE) production, oxidation, and enhancing aquaporin and elastin expression, particularly using natural and safe materials.
Innovation Solution
A fermentation product of black rice extract is produced through extraction using a polar solvent followed by fermentation with Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Lactobacillus plantarum, which contains compounds that inhibit AGE production, oxidation, and enhance aquaporin and elastin expression.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If conventional skincare products are used, then basic skincare functions are provided, but they fail to effectively inhibit skin aging, reduce wrinkles, and enhance skin elasticity
Solution Approach 1:
The fermentation process is divided into two distinct stages: first fermentation using Saccharomyces cerevisiae to produce intermediate products, and second fermentation using Lactobacillus plantarum to produce the final active ingredients. This segmentation allows each stage to be optimized independently, ensuring high effectiveness while maintaining manageable process complexity
Solution Approach 2:
Black rice extract is prepared in advance through extraction with polar solvents and enzymatic treatment before fermentation. This preliminary preparation ensures the extract is ready for sequential fermentation, improving the overall efficiency and reliability of producing anti-aging skincare products
2Object-affected harmful factors
If natural materials like black rice extract are used, then safety and naturalness are improved, but the ability to effectively inhibit AGE production and oxidation is insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The double fermentation process transforms the chemical parameters of black rice extract, converting it into a product with significantly enhanced concentration of active ingredients including compounds that inhibit AGE production, oxidation, and enhance aquaporin and elastin expression. This parameter transformation maintains the natural origin while dramatically improving effectiveness
Solution Approach 2:
The fermentation product combines multiple bioactive compounds produced through sequential fermentation by different microbial strains. This composite of naturally-derived active ingredients works synergistically to provide potent anti-aging, antioxidant, and skin-elastin enhancing effects while maintaining natural safety
3Ease of operation
If single-stage fermentation is used, then process complexity is reduced, but the expression of aquaporin and elastin is not sufficiently enhanced
Solution Approach 1:
The fermentation process is divided into two distinct stages: first fermentation using Saccharomyces cerevisiae to produce intermediate products, and second fermentation using Lactobacillus plantarum to produce the final active ingredients. This segmentation allows each stage to be optimized independently, ensuring high effectiveness while maintaining manageable process complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The first fermentation product serves as an intermediary substrate for the second fermentation. The intermediate products generated by Saccharomyces cerevisiae are further transformed by Lactobacillus plantarum into the final active ingredients that enhance aquaporin and elastin expression, creating a multi-step transformation pathway
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The fermentation product effectively inhibits skin aging, moisturizes, reduces wrinkles, and enhances skin elasticity and tightness by improving the expression of aquaporin and elastin, offering a natural and safe skincare solution.
Implementation Method 1
fermenting the extract by using Saccharomyces cerevisiae to provide an intermediate fermentation product
Implementation Method 2
fermenting the intermediate fermentation product by using Lactobacillus plantarum to provide a fermentation product of black rice extract
Implementation Method 3
extracting black rice by using a polar solvent to provide a black rice extract
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AI summary
A composition comprising a fermentation product of black rice extract, uses of the fermentation product and its active ingredients, and a method for manufacturing the fermentation product. The fermentation product of black rice extract comprises at least one of the following compounds of formula (I) to formula (V):