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The aspect of skin and hair reflects the beauty of a person.
Hair with a good care are hydrated, have a silky look, and a shiny and soft
aspect. That often reminds the consumer of a good nutrition based in many
fruits, natural products, rich with vitamins, mineral salts, water and several
hydrating, tonic, stimulating and protective substances.
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Guarana is a native plant from the Amazon area, especially the regions of
Maués and Parintins. The Indians used that plant to treat headaches, fevers, and
The first chemical examination of guarana seeds was made by the German
botanist Theodore von Martius, who has insulated a bitter white crystalline
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substance, with a physiologically stimulating action. That substance was named
guaranine, and later identified as caffeine.
Guarana seed has high caffeine content (from 2.7 to 5.8%) as
teofiline and teobromine (Henman, 1982; Leung, 1980). Guarana also
has tannins, amide and resinous substances (FAO, 1986). Small amounts
of saponines, coline, and mineral salts are also present (Leung, 1980).
The seed is globulous or ellipsoid, from 6 to 8 mm diameter, unevenly
convex from both sides, smooth, shiny, with a dark purpurine or dark black color, presenting a large hilum, having a fleshy and whitish aril, withdrawn when
the seed was desiccated; embryo without albumen presenting a short lower
radicle and thick fleshy plain-convexes cotyledons.
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Guaranine (caffeine), tannin, saponine, resin, fatty substance, glucose, etc.
Traditional usage: Due to its caffeine, guarana is a stimulating substance
that tends to make mental and muscular effort easier, decreasing motor and
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psychic fatigue, providing a comfortable and well-being sensation. There are also
reports that caffeine moderately dosed produces an increased speed and clarity
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Guarana has been used as a digestive tonic, analgesic and aphrodisiac.
Besides, for its tannin content, it is used topically as tonic and astringent. It
is also used in cosmetic lines in treating auxiliary processes of cellulites for
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Caffeine is known for acting in lipolyses process.
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The definition of physical beauty undoubtedly passes through happiness,
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and, most of all, health. That includes the appropriate physical exercises,
relaxing, getting long with the surrounding environment, and especially, good
Keeping a good body function is what makes us healthy; but such balance is
The use of substances extracted from feeding has been applied in
cosmeceuthical products to fight damages caused by external factors, especially
With stress, hair gets damaged, more opaque, fragile, and dryer and with
the colour changed. Climate conditions, constant changes suffered, the effects of
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ultraviolet radiation, very frequent washes using aggressive surface-actives,
damage the protective barrier of hair strings, making it dry, fragile and very
uneven, presenting, short mobility and shine at the same time as a consequence.
UNIPLANT GUARANA EG can be used as an active in hair products, for it
has tonic and stimulating properties. Such properties might have a really fashion
energy “claim” in current cosmetics. Tannins present in guarana also have a
certain astringent character, helping cleaning and the possible removal of sebum
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Used in hair (shampoos, conditioners, lotions, and treatment masks, etc),
skin care, and body care and bath treatment lines.
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Betendorf, J.F. 1909. Chronica da missão dos Padres da Companhia de Jesus no Estado do
Maranhão. Revista do Instituto Histórico Geográfico Brasileiro.
Duke, J.; Vasquez, R. 1994. Amazonian Ethno botanical Dictionary. Boca Raton: CRC Press.
FAO.1986. some medicinal forest plants of Africa and Latin America. Rome: Food and
Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
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Henman, R. 1982 Journal of Ethno pharmacology, (6).
Leung, A. Y. 1980 Encyclopedia of common natural ingredients used in foods, drugs and
cosmetics. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Sousa, M. P. 1991 Plantas Medicinais Brasileiras. Fortaleza Edições UFC.
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