Glutaredoxin is an enzyme antioxidant that helps protect against oxidative stress. Glutaredoxin is a DIY ingredient that you can mix into your everyday base cream to stimulate its antioxidant effects for your skin. This is easy to add to your existing skincare products and will help you enhance your daily routine. Just add up to one tube into your creams or serums and you’re ready to apply, or find this ingredient in our Antioxidant Serum, Skin Brightening Cream or Antioxidant Day Cream.
How to use it
Beginner: Add 1 tube to 4 oz of your favorite base cream or water-based formula.
Advanced: This ingredient is recommended for use at about 0.00005% in formulations. Carefully add this solution during the cool down phase of formulation with gentle mixing. This ingredient is soluble in creams and water-based products, but not recommended for use in anhydrous products.
Quick Tips
Store product in fridge. Do not freeze.
Ingredients
Products with this ingredient:
Antioxidant Day Cream, Antioxidant Serum, Skin Brightening Cream, Ultimate De-Puff Eye Serum
INCI:
sh-Polypeptide-77
Research
Kenchappa R.S. and Ravindranath V. (2003) Glutaredoxin is essential for maintenance of brain mitochondrial complex I: studies with MPTP. FASEB J. 17:717-719.
Starke, David W.; Chock, P. Boon; Mieyal, John J. (2003) Glutathione-Thiyl Radical Scavenging and Transferase Properties of Human Glutaredoxin (Thioltransferase). J. Biol. Chem., 278: 14607-14613.