Rosa Canina Extract Reduces Sebum Secretion and Pore Size

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current cosmetic products for oily skin are often insufficiently effective in addressing excessive sebum secretion and associated skin manifestations, such as enlarged pores and shine, as they do not adequately target the underlying causes of hyper-seborrhea.

Innovation Solution

A hydroglycolic extract of berries without achenes from Rosa canina, rich in polyphenolic compounds, is used as an anti-seborrhea active ingredient to reduce sebocyte differentiation and sebum secretion, thereby addressing the root causes of oily skin.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If conventional cosmetic products are used to address oily skin, then skin care is provided, but they are insufficiently effective in reducing excessive sebum secretion and associated manifestations

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveeffectiveness in reducing sebum secretionVSAvoidcomplexity of active ingredient composition
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts and isolates specific polyphenolic compounds (catechin, taxifolin, coumarin) from Rosa canina berries to create a targeted active ingredient. This extraction approach concentrates the effective components responsible for reducing sebocyte differentiation and sebum secretion, thereby improving reliability without unnecessarily increasing complexity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The invention changes the chemical composition parameters of the cosmetic product by incorporating specific polyphenolic compounds with defined concentrations. These parameter changes (presence of catechin, taxifolin, coumarin) directly enhance the product's effectiveness in combating hyper-seborrhea while maintaining a manageable formulation complexity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Reliability

If existing anti-seborrhea products are applied, then some skin benefits are achieved, but they do not act on all phenomena causing excessive sebum secretion

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecomprehensive action on sebum secretion mechanismsVSAvoidmulti-component active ingredient formulation
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent creates a composite active ingredient comprising multiple polyphenolic compounds (catechin, taxifolin, coumarin) from Rosa canina berries. This composite approach allows the product to act on multiple mechanisms simultaneously - reducing sebocyte differentiation, inhibiting sebum secretion, and addressing associated skin manifestations - thereby achieving comprehensive action while maintaining formulation coherence

Inventive Principle:
Principle #40Composite materials

3Reliability

If sebocyte differentiation is reduced to decrease sebum secretion, then oily skin manifestations are improved, but long-term skin health must be maintained

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvereduction in sebocyte differentiationVSAvoidlong-term skin health maintenance
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDuration of action of stationary object

Solution Approach 1:

The patent converts the potentially harmful effect of excessive sebocyte differentiation into a beneficial outcome by using polyphenolic compounds that gently regulate this process. The same compounds that reduce differentiation also provide antioxidant protection and maintain skin barrier function, thereby achieving sebum reduction while ensuring long-term skin health through multiple protective mechanisms

Inventive Principle:
Principle #22Blessing in disguise (Convert harm into benefit)

Data Source

PatentEP3040105B1Cosmetic use of a specific extract of rosa canina berries as an Anti-seborrheic active agent
Publication Date: 2017.12.13 SOCIETE INDUSTRIELLE LIMOUSINE D APPLICATION BIOLOGIQUE (SILAB)

AI summary

The subject of the invention is the cosmetic use as an anti-seborrhea active ingredient of a hydroglycolic extract of Rosa canina berries without achenes containing polyphenolic compounds, as well as a cosmetic skin care process to combat excessive sebum secretion and associated skin manifestations.