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Extracts of mango leaves have shown great potential as cosmetics ingredients. DOST photo.
Philippine mango leaves’ extracts have shown great potential as cosmetics ingredients with good antioxidant, anti-aging, and whitening properties, based on a study conducted by the National Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology of the University of the Philippines Los Baños.
The UPLB research on the “Evaluation of the Bioactivities of Natural Phenolics from Mango (Mangifera indica Linn) Leaves for Cosmetic Industry Applications,” investigated samples of fresh leaves of mango cultivars (carabao, apple mango, pico, sinaging, and sipsipin) collected from San Miguel, Bulacan to explore its possible cosmetic applications.
Photo lifted from PJS: Leaves of mature (left) and young (right) carabao mango.
MANILA, May 7 Extracts of the local mango leaves have showngreat potential as cosmetic ingredient with good antioxidant, anti-aging, and whitening properties, based on the study conducted by a team of researchers lead by Arsenia B. Sapin of the National Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology of the University of the Philippines Los Baños.
This research on the“Evaluation of the Bioactivities of Natural Phenolics from Mango (Mangifera indica Linn) Leaves for Cosmetic Industry Applications,”investigated samples of fresh leaves of mango cultivars (carabao, apple mango, pico, sinaging, and sipsipin) collected from San Miguel, Bulacan to explore its possible cosmetic applications.
Leaves of mature (left) and young (right) carabao mango. (Photo from the Philippine Journal of Science/DOST-STII)
Based on the study conducted by a researcher team, led by Arsenia B. Sapin of the National Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology of the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB), local mango leaves were found as a nature-based cosmetic ingredient “with good antioxidant, anti-aging, and whitening properties.”
Sapin’s team’s study zeroed in on the “evaluation of the bioactivities of natural phenolics from mango (Mangifera indica Linn) leaves for cosmetic industry applications.”
Samples of fresh leaves of mango cultivars (carabao, apple mango, pico, sinaging, and sipsipin) were collected from San Miguel, Bulacan to explore its possible cosmetic applications, read the Department of Science and Technology’s (DOST) Facebook post on Friday.