The Difference of Squalane and Squalene in Skin Care Product

What is the Difference of Squalane and Squalene in Skin Care ?

Squalene, a substance naturally present in human sebum, shark liver oil and olive oil. It has strong antioxidant activity, but is also extremely unstable and easily oxidized. So, skin care products are used very rarely, but they can be used for liver protection, immunity enhancement and other health products and medicines.

Squalane is obtained by hydrogenation and hydrogenation of squalene, which makes it more stable and less prone to oxidation, extends its shelf life, and has similar protective effects to squalene. Moreover, it is skin

friendly, stable and easily absorbed, so it is more widely used in cosmetics.

SQUALANE SOURCES AS FOLLOWING:

• First-Generation Squalane

        Derived from shark liver

In 1916, Japanese scientists discovered squalene in deep-sea shark liver oil. Sharks are currently the animals with the highest content of squalene, and the content of squalene in their livers can reach 50% with a purity of over 99%. The transparency, smell and skin feel are quite good. The only drawback is that it is expensive and not environmentally friendly.

• Second-Generation Squalane

        Derived from olives

In 1935, the first plant-derived squalene-olive oil was obtained. Subsequently, squalene was also found in other plants such as maranth rapeseed oil, rapeseed oil, soybean oil, rice bran oil and cottonseed oil, but thecontent was all lower than   olive oil. Which the purity is from 90%-98% (with a higher content of unsaponifiable olive substances), so it is slightly less transparent and has a poor odor.

• Third-Generation Squalane

        Derived from sugarcane

In 2003, the BIOSSANCE laboratory of   United States extracted sugar squalane from sugarcane through biological fermentation technology.

It has high transparency, good skin feel, no odor and is more environmentally friendly.

• Fourth-Generation Squalane

       Derived from camellia

Camellia oil has rich squalene. Camellia oil is obtained by physically pressing camellia seeds toretain their active components ，Then, ecological extraction is used to achieve the hydrogenation process from squalene to squalane without adding solvents, ensuring that squalane is green, stable, and free of organic solvent residues。