Green Tea with EGCG Powder is a very effective topical antioxidant that helps reduce oiliness and keeps pores clean. Add this Green Tea Extract Powder to your favorite base cream or try one of our Skin Actives ready-made formulations such as the Clarifying Cream, T Zone Serum or Redness Reduction Serum.
How to use it
Beginner: Add up to 1 tube to 4 oz of your favorite base cream or water-based formula.
Advanced: This ingredient is recommended for use at up to 1% in formulations. This ingredient is soluble in glycerin, ethoxydiglycol, and water with a recommended pH range of 3-5. For best results, we recommended adding this ingredient to creams or thicker serums as sediment can form in thin products without suspension capabilities.
Quick Tips
This extract will discolor formulations over time to a reddish-brown. Store in a cool, dark location. This Green Tea EGCG is a higher grade extract standardized for 90% EGCG, which means you need less powder for your formulations. This reduces the color change effect that green tea has on your finished products.
Ingredients
Products with this ingredient:
Acne Control Cream, Antioxidant Serum, Collagen Serum, Pore Refreshing Mask, Redness Reduction Serum, Scar Vanishing Gel, T-Zone Serum, UV Repair Cream, Zit Ender, Ultimate De-Puff Eye Serum
INCI:
Camellia Sinensis (Green Tea) Leaf Extract
Research
Fujiki, Hirota; Suganuma, Masami; Okabe, Sachiko; Sueoka, Eisaburo; Suga, Kenji; Imai, Kazue; Nakachi, Kei; Kimura, Shunsaku (1999) Mechanistic findings of green tea as cancer preventive for humans. Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine: 220(4), 225-228.
Huang, Chieh-Chen; Fang, Jai-You; Wu, Wen-Bin; Chiang, Han-Sun; Wei, Yuan-Ju; Hung, Chi-Feng (2005) Protective effects of (-)-epicatechin-3-gallate on UVA-induced damage in HaCaT keratinocytes. Archives of Dermatological Research: 296(10), 473-481.
Hsu, S.; Yamamoto, T.; Borke, J.; Walsh, D. S.; Singh, Baldev; R., Sushma; T., Kamatani; Nah-Do, N.; Lapp, C.; Lapp, D.; Foster, E.; Bollag, W.B.; Lewis, J.; Wataha, J.; Osaki, T.; Schuster, G. (2005) Green tea polyphenol-induced epidermal keratinocyte differentiation is associated with coordinated expression of p57/KIP2 and caspase 14. Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics: 312(3), 884-890.
Lu, Yao-Ping; Lou, You-Rong; Xie, Jian-Guo; Peng, Qing-Yun; Liao, Jie; Yang, Chung S.; Huang, Mou-Tuan; Conney, Allan H. (2002) Topical applications of caffeine or (-)-epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) inhibit carcinogenesis and selectively increase apoptosis in UVB-induced skin tumors in mice. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA: 99(19), 12455-12460.
