Squalene - Bees & Trees

Description: Squalene is an oily liquid that originally comes from shark liver, but luckily it can also be found in a couple of plant oils. Olive (0.6%), peanut (0.1%) and pumpkin (0.35%) oils contain it, though not in huge amounts. On Bees & Trees products we use plant derived squalene. 

What contains more of it, is the sebum (the oily stuff) that our skin produces. About 13% of human sebum is squalene, which means that it’s an important skin-identical ingredient and NMF (natural moisturizing factor). 

Score: 1

Role: Antistatic, emollient, hair conditioning, refatting, skin conditioning

Products that have it: ORGANIC RICH MOISTURIZING CREAM

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