Carbohydrate Mixture for Skin Hydration and Anti-Aging

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current cosmetic compositions for anti-aging, particularly those using monosaccharides and oligosaccharides, fail to provide sustained hydration and effective stimulation of skin elasticity substances like Elastin, Collagen, and Fibrillin, leading to inadequate long-term anti-aging effectiveness and potential allergenicity.

Innovation Solution

A mixture of carbohydrate active ingredients comprising a weight ratio of 70:30 to 90:10 of monosaccharides (Arabinose and Fucose) to oligosaccharides (2'-Fucosyllactose), optimized to enhance skin hydration and bioavailability of water, facilitating the synthesis of anti-aging substances like Elastin, Collagen, and Fibrillin, while ensuring minimal allergenicity and high purity.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Quantity of substance

If monosaccharides are used in cosmetic compositions to provide hydration, then hydration capacity is improved, but the ability to stimulate synthesis of anti-aging substances like Elastin is insufficient

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvehydration capacityVSAvoidanti-aging effectiveness
Core Design Contradiction:
Quantity of substanceVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines monosaccharides and oligosaccharides in a specific weight ratio (70:30 to 90:10) to create a synergistic mixture that provides both hydration capacity and stimulation of anti-aging substance synthesis, resolving the insufficiency of monosaccharides alone

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent optimizes the weight ratio parameter between monosaccharides and oligosaccharides to achieve the desired balance between hydration and anti-aging effectiveness, with the ratio being a critical parameter for the composition's performance

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Object-affected harmful factors

If natural carbohydrate components are used to reduce allergenicity, then safety is improved, but long-term anti-aging effectiveness is reduced

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveallergenicityVSAvoidanti-aging effectiveness over time
Core Design Contradiction:
Object-affected harmful factorsVSDuration of action of moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The patent creates a composite carbohydrate mixture combining different types of sugars (monosaccharides and oligosaccharides) to achieve both safety (low allergenicity) and sustained anti-aging effectiveness, leveraging the complementary properties of each component

Inventive Principle:
Principle #40Composite materials

3Reliability

If chemical derivation components are used to enhance anti-aging action, then effectiveness is improved, but safety and tolerability worsen

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveanti-aging effectivenessVSAvoidskin reactions
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent uses naturally occurring, biodegradable carbohydrate components (monosaccharides and oligosaccharides) that are safe for skin application, replacing potentially harmful chemical compounds while maintaining or improving anti-aging effectiveness through the optimized mixture ratio

Inventive Principle:
Principle #27Cheap short-living objects (Disposable)

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 specific ratio of monosaccharides to oligosaccharides in the mixture achieves optimal hydration and sustained stimulation of anti-aging substance synthesis, providing effective anti-aging action over time with reduced allergenicity and improved bioavailability of water for cellular metabolic processes.

Implementation Method 1

such components are used both as excipients, in particular emulsifiers and surfactants, and as active principles, in particular as hydrating agents. More in detail, such components of carbohydrate origin are admixed with cosmetic compositions usually for their hydration capacity, i.e. for their capacity to attract and bond water

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectHydrogen bonding:

Data Source

PatentEP3067040B1Mixture of active ingredients for compositions for cosmetic use
Publication Date: 2017.09.27 KIALAB SRL
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AI summary

Mixture of active ingredients for compositions for cosmetic use, which comprises at least two carbohydrate components, including at least one monosaccharide and at least one oligosaccharide. The mixture is characterized in that the weight ratio between the aforesaid at least one monosaccharide and aforesaid at least one oligosaccharide present in the composition is comprised between 70:30 and 90:10.