What’s sponge?
Sponge is the most primitive multi cellular animals, have been living 200 million years ago in the sea, so far has grown to more than 10000, accounting for 1/15 of the Marine animals, is a vast ocean “family”, most of them live in the Marine intertidal to 8500 meters (28000 feet) deep.
Not all sponges live in the ocean, there are around 20 kinds of needle sponge (also called freshwater sponge) living in fresh water, commonly live in clean lake and gentle streams. They are with soft structure and grow into bag shell or branch of briquette. People usually found them on aquatic plant’s branches and leaves as well as on stones, due to the surface of the algae, often present the color such as yellow, brown or green.
What’s sponge spicules?
Spongilla spicule is a kind of siliceous extract from freshwater sponge. Fresh water sponge, it looks very soft, always be mistaken for a plant by most people, in fact, it is a kind of animal, and even be an animal which have skeleton and bones. Due to the particularity of its growth environment, Freshwater sponges gradually evolved the special bone, that’s just be spongilla spicules which is a kind of siliceous spicules, very small, but has a stronger hardness, for supporting the sponge body and resisting the enemy’s invasion. Spongilla spicules constituted by hard protein and heteronuclear hard protein, do not dissolve in any kind of organic solution, therefore, can be used as a kind of ideal natural materials in cosmetics and skin peeling curing.
Freshwater sponges, usually attached to grow on the branches and corrupt leaves, the floating beings in the water and some parasitic algae, they will be salvaged with freshwater sponges together. But only the spongilla spicules are really will be used by. Other impurities are not beneficial to the skin, even cause skin allergies and infection. Therefore, we need to remove other impurities, as much as possible to extract pure spongilla spicules.
The application of spongilla spicules?
The first application of spongilla spicules is from Europe, the local people use a traditional treatment to cure acne and pimples. Choose freshwater sponge living in the clean water, salve and field them on the sunshine, grade them into powder after dried. Make this spongilla powder mixed with water and apply it on the skin with acne troubles, then flush with clean water. 3-5 days after the application, the skin peel, and the new skin will grow. After 3 times of this kind of spongilla powder treatment, the acne or pimples will be cured. Because of the effectiveness of spongilla powder for the acnes, this traditional curing method has been come down and still be widely used in some area of Europe
Along with the development of modern science and technology, especially the improvement and popularization of microscope in cosmetics company, the researcher found under microscope that, the spongilla powder constituted by kinds of organics and silicon with needle-like, and the effectiveness of acnes curing is just from its special physical character, the pinpoint will thumb into the skin, and stimulate the dermis, help to activate the skin microcirculation, and to reduce skin pores blockings, and also help to speed up the metabolism of skin generate, accelerated aging cuticle natural flake. This curing principle is similar as “derma roller”, but spongilla spicule is the product of biological evolution, it’s a kind of needle-like silicon naturally evolved in sponge body in the specific growth condition. Spongilla spicule is with finer and smaller size between 50um-180um, the purely physical stimulation on skin can help to avoid infection caused by skin damage. So, it’s an ideal natural origin ingredient and could be used on the skin for a long time to cure acne, pimple, folliculitis and oily skin, with multi skincare function of skin polishing, oil skin-balance, pimple removal(especially for silent acnes), whitening & spot solution, tightness and pore minimizing etc.
Our spongilla spicules of high purity?
The unique physical character of spongilla spicules make it is possible to be extracted and purified. After many experiments and tests, our RD personnel extracted the spongilla spicules with purity of 50%, with color of very light brown. Compared with spongilla powder, we remove most of organics and reduce the most risk of skin infection, the 50% spongilla spicules are mixed with solution liquid (such as HA serum), used as mask to speed up horny to flake and cure the pimple, whiten skin and remove small fine wrinkles.
However, in modern cosmetics production, the extracts with higher purity will be easily accepted by manufacturer, thus to extract the higher purity spicule is imminent. In Hero, this kind of spongilla technology turn to be possible. In 2016 beginning, we extracted the spongilla spicules wth purity over 92% successfully, and the purity is up to 98%-99% if water removed. We removed organics and salts, it’s almost a single component, and can be used in most kind of cosmetics form such as powder, lotion, cream or liquid.
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