Your questions about one of K-beauty favourite ingredient: Snail Mucus Extract, answered!

Lately K-beauty specialists, skin care enthusiasts, Instagram bloggers that focus on natural and clean products, talk more and more about the benefits of this curious, for some other mysterious and gross ingredient.

In fact, they have a real reason to do so because Snail Mucus Extract with its ability to regenerate skin damage, reduce scarring, wrinkles, dark spots & actively hydrate, it is a real gift of the nature.

Before you purchase any Snail Extract Mucus Extract products, go through some real facts.

Why is it so good for the skin?

It is super packed with all the essential nutrients, such as hyaluronic acid, glycoprotein, elastin, copper peptides and antimicrobial to keep the bacteria away. All these ingredients are already documented and tested for its benefits.

What is its function?

This is a multitasking ingredient and the benefits are too many to count! Snail mucus extract is wonderful for hydrating, repairing skin damage, reducing blemishes, scarring or pigmentation, to firm and tighten the skin, moreover to boost elastin and collagen production.

And the best part? It is suitable for any skin type and it is perfect to be used with other actives like Vitamin C, AHA products, retinol as is a gentle humectant and has healing properties.

What is Snail Mucus Extract?

It is a snail secretion filtrate or snail slime. It enables the snail to keep moist, to protect the body thanks to the antimicrobial function and by regenerating damaged tissues.

Snail Mucus Extract has been re-integrated into skin care by Korean in recent years, however it were Chileans  the pioneers of using snail slime in the ’80s after they discovered how soft and healed their hands were from handling the snails.

Snail itself was used since ancient times in Rome and Greece for its properties and often it has been used as prescription to heal wounds, burns, inflammations, skin disease and pain relief.

Also, in recent times, if you ask your French, Greek and/or Italian grandparents, some of them still remember to have it used to cure ulcer.

How it is harvested?

These days, due to increased consciousness, certification like halal, continuous search of “cruelty-free”, “ethically made” methods and strict swiss and European regulation, breeders must keep good environmental conditions, diet and or make “SPA” treatments to the snail or put him in a bumpy environment where the snail mucin is produced naturally.

It is always good to have a look where the skin care has been produced or what certification it has.

Only Skin Care?

Snail Mucus Extract is used by most beauty conscious Asian countries as it has been used in variety of skin care products and in Thailand even in Spa, where snails are left on the client face to leave their mucus.

How to use it?

In case it is a new ingredient for you, it is recommended that you begin with a small amount to test your skin reaction. Generally, to see the benefits of most skin care ingredients including snail mucus extract, it is advised to continue using the product for at least three weeks to realize its full benefits and to let the skin to get used to it.

Recommendation

Advanced Renewal Face Cream by NUME-Lab Switzerland

for wrinkles, dark spots, and hydration formulated and produced in Switzerland.

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About the author:

Paulina Kostrzycka co-founded NUME-Lab, a Swiss skincare firm which provides Halal skin care products. She is 34 years old, has polish roots but has been living abroad for the last 25years. She is married to Italian and have two Chinese cats. When she is not working on NUME-Lab, you can find Paula running or biking around Walensee where she lives. She is passionate about travelling and discovering the world, one of her dream is to open an animal sanctuary. Before founding NUME-Lab she worked in different fields of supply chain within international corporation in Italy, China, Belgium and Switzerland. Her education background is Chinese language and culture, business administration and project management.

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