Sugar crystals
Sugar crystals. Photo: Zoran Ugrenovic, CC0.

Pentavitin®

Saccharide isomerate

Binds moisture and helps prevent the tight feeling after washing.

  • INCISaccharide Isomerate
  • What it ishumectant
  • Soort informatieOnderzoek naar de stof

Why it is in there

Washing takes moisture out of your skin as well. This sugar compound is a humectant: in the EU database CosIng it is listed as a humectant, a substance that holds water in the upper layer of the skin.

Bron: EU ingredient database CosIng

Where it comes from

A moisture-binding sugar compound, related to substances the skin produces itself.

What is known

On the label this active ingredient appears as saccharide isomerate.

What the manufacturer measured is below: in whom, for how long and at what dosage. It concerned the ingredient in a rinse-off product, not our face wash.

What the maker measured

The manufacturer studied the ingredient in a rinse-off product at 0.2 to 0.5%: 50 women aged 25 to 45 with dry skin, seven days, randomised and placebo-controlled, measured on the forearm. The moisture content of the skin remained higher 24 hours after washing, and 71% of the participants found that their skin felt better hydrated.

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: Rosenberger et al., Personal Care, July 2021

About the research

Supplier study in a shower gel (rinse-off product), on the forearm of women with dry skin, randomised and placebo-controlled. Not on the face, not in men, not with the Valvor Man product. The concentration in the Valvor Man formula is not yet known.

Zit in

Bron: https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/