Many of us wake up in the morning looking forward to a hot water extract of the roasted seeds from Coffea arabica L., a.k.a. coffee. Coffee fruits are fleshy berries, each containing two seeds which are pressed together so that the inner side of each one is flattened. The coffee beverage is made from the ground, roasted seeds (coffee beans) that are removed from the coffee cherries (a.k.a. coffee berries). When the seeds were collected, the rest of the fruit was usually discarded but now the skin care industry has made the coffee fruit a hot commodity.
I think it was a great idea to use the up-to-now discarded coffee fruit, because it contains chlorogenic and caffeic acids (antioxidant, anti-inflammatory), ferulic acid (antioxidant), quinic acid (antioxidant, antiviral), trigonelline (antioxidant, anticancer, antibacterial), proanthocyanidins, caffeine, mannans and arabinoglactanall of them beneficial to our skin and our bodies. The powder extract, incorporated into a cream, will provide antioxidant activity, as advertised in products such as KonaRed and Coffeeberry (in Revale cream).
Our coffee fruit extract is extracted from Kona coffee cherries and comes as a freeze dried powder. Use very little in a water-based serum or cream, it will go a long way. As for any freeze-dried extract, please keep tightly closed in a dry cool place.