Skin Scars Anti-aging Gotu Kola Leaf, Centella Asiatica Extract for Cosmetic industry

Skin Scars Anti-aging Gotu Kola Leaf, Centella Asiatica Extract for Cosmetic industry

Plant Source Info of Gotu Kola Leaf, Centella Asiatica Extract:

Centella Asiatica, commonly known as centella, Asiatic pennywort, Gotu kola, is a herbaceous, frost-tender perennial plant in the flowering plant family Apiaceae, subfamily Mackinlayoideae. It is native to wetlands inAsia. It is used as a culinary vegetable and as medicinal herb.

Centella grows in tropical swampy areas. The plant is indigenous to the warmer regions of both hemispheres, including Africa, Australia, Cambodia, Central America, China, Indonesia, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Madagascar, the Pacific Islands, South America, Thailand, southern United States of America, and Viet Nam. The stems are slender, creeping stolons, green to reddish-green in color, connecting plants to each other. It has long-stalked, green, rounded apices which have smooth texture with palmately netted veins. The leaves are borne on pericladial petioles, around 2 cm (0.79 in). The rootstock consists of rhizomes, growing vertically down. They are creamish in color and covered with root hairs.

The flowers are white or pinkish to red in color, born in small, rounded bunches (umbels) near the surface of the soil. Each flower is partly enclosed in two green bracts. The hermaphrodite flowers are minute in size, less than 3 mm (0.12 in), with five to six corolla lobes per flower. Each flower bears five stamens and two styles. The fruit are densely reticulate, distinguishing it from species of Hydrocotyle which have smooth, ribbed or warty fruit.The crop matures in three months, and the whole plant, including the roots, is harvested manually.

Basic Info of Gotu Kola Leaf / Centella Asiatica Extract:

Other Active Ingredients:

Madecassoside: 50%-90%

Total Triterpenes: 10%-80%

TECA: 75%, 95%

Madecassic acid: 80%

Asiatic Acid: 90%
 

The Info of active ingredient Asiaticoside of Gotu Kola Leaf / Centella Asiatica Extract:

CAS No.: 16830-15-2

Molecular Formula:C48H78O19

Molecular Weight:959.12

Applications of Gotu Kola Leaf/Centella Asiatica Extract with ingredient of Asiaticoside:

Cosmetic:

Regeneration of renew of skin collagen

Skin repair

Strechmarks prevention and treatment

Wound, burn and trauma healing of skin

Burn wound healing of Skin

Dry skin

Anti-oxidation

Anti-aging

Anti-inflammatory

Gotu Kola Extract is used by some brands.(For Reference Only)