Ponds turning red from Dunaliella salina
Ponds turning red from Dunaliella salina. Photo: CSIRO, CC BY 3.0.

IBR-SolAge®

Dunaliella salina extract

Supports smoother, more even skin.

  • INCIDunaliella Salina Extract
  • What it isalgae extract
  • Soort informatieOnderzoek naar de stof

Why it is in there

Dunaliella salina survives fierce sunlight and extremely salty water by filling itself with beta-carotene, the orange-red pigment that colours the salt lakes. That extract is in the day cream, alongside the UV filters that provide the SPF.

Bron: FAO, The mass culture of Dunaliella salina

Where it comes from

A pink micro-alga from extremely salty lakes, where little else survives.

What is known

On the label this active ingredient appears as Dunaliella Salina Extract.

What the manufacturer measured is below: in whom, for how long and at what dosage. It is about the active ingredient, not about our day cream.

What the maker measured

The manufacturer studied a cream with 1% of this extract in 25 women aged 35 to 60: double-blind, one half of the face against placebo on the other, 56 days. On the side with the extract the researchers counted about a third fewer wrinkles than on the placebo side (number −32%, volume −35%), and 26% fewer red spots. The research was published in the journal Marine Drugs.

This is research into the active, not into the Valvor Man product. What a single active does in a study is not a promise about the cream it sits in.

Bron: Havas et al., Marine Drugs, 2022

About the research

Supplier study in women aged 35-60, 56 days, against placebo. Small number of participants. Not with the Valvor Man product; the concentration in our formula is not public.

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