The Best Plant-Based Ingredients Are Key

I developed the moisturiser firstly because I was getting pretty fed up with how brands were continually separating products into more and more steps. Double cleansing, layering of different serums, different types of moisturiser, primer and all this before you even got to putting your makeup on. Who has the time to do this twice a day? Maybe if you are pampering but not everyday. All this information floating around out there can be very confusing.

I wanted something simple, packed with the best grade ingredients I could source and that really worked.

Ingredients are the key to a great product.I know where the ingredients come from, I’ve harvested some of them in West Cork in Ireland and processed some myself. Also I grew up in Malaysia with mangosteens and wanted to share their amazing properties.

This means A.D.C.01 is packed full of some of the best natural active compounds to help your skin feel radiant and alive.

The better your skin looks, the less makeup you have to wear. But I still hope to have a day job!

What’s really in A.D.C. 01

I want to share with you the natural, high grade ingredients that are in A.D.C.01 High Performance Moisturiser so you know what they can do.

Seaweed: Fucus Serratus extract - this is the serrated wrack we collected from the beach in Ireland. it is great for skin and is used traditionally all over Europe not just Ireland. It’s one of those plants to hand that we seem to have forgotten about.

Arnica Montana flower extract – for bruising, damaged skin, originally from Central Europe.

Gotu kola extract or Centella Asiatica - this is a super herb from Asia originally used a lot in Ayurvedic medicine. It’s also used in traditional African and Chinese medicine. It has amazing anti-inflammatory properties, This is going to be a huge plant in the future and glad we are pioneering it.

I used to eat it back at home when I was growing up in Malaysia. In Malay cuisine it is known as “pegaga”, and the leaves of this plant are used for ulam, a type of Malay salad. In many places they make drinks out of it too. 

Calendula Officinalis flower extract - again used a lot in China and in India. It’s used as an anti-redness and anti-inflammatory.

Chamomile extract – to reduce puffiness and for its soothing, calming properties.

Mangosteen fruit extract - I think the key is to focus on this plant and the catechins it contains which are great for spotty acne type skin.

Importantly for A.D.C.01 there are the oils that I used to give it a luxurious feel:

Shea butter - I’m using this to give a richness and luxurious feel to the base.

Perilla Oil – this is a Korean oil - a hot topic at the moment. It’s a wild sesame oil used to add to that luxurious feel

Jojoba oil – from southern California originally where it is used by indigenous people there to treat sores and wounds.

Cranberry oil – this is quite a hot thing at the moment too. It’s a rich source of fatty acids and anti-oxidants and as it’s high in vitamin E and carotenoids, it’s great for the skin.

Chia seed oil – originally used by the Aztecs for skin and joint health, it contains tocopherols and magnesium.

The scent is a blend of chamomile and ylang ylang, used traditionally for soothing and relaxing.

Our ingredients are natural and vegan certified.

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