TOPICAL COMPOSITION FOR SKIN CONTAINING POLYSACCHARIDE EXTRACT OF RED GINSENG

• US 20120238743A1
• Filed: 11/23/2010
• Published: 09/20/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 11/30/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Amorepacific Corporation
• Original Assignee: Amorepacific Corporation
• Inventors: Kim, Ji Seong, Yeom, Myeong Hun, Kwon, Sun Sang, Kim, Duck Hee, Kim, Han Kon
• Granted Patent: US 8,691,794 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 536/123.1
• CPC Class Codes: A61K 36/258 Panax (ginseng)
• CPC Class Codes: A61K 8/0212 Face masks
• CPC Class Codes: A61K 8/73 Polysaccharides
• CPC Class Codes: A61K 8/9789 Magnoliopsida [dicotyledons]
• CPC Class Codes: A61P 17/18 Antioxidants, e.g. antiradicals preparations for protection against sunlight A61Q17/00
• CPC Class Codes: A61Q 19/08 Anti-ageing preparations

Abstract

The present invention relates to a composition for skin application, which has the effects of reducing skin wrinkles, enhancing skin elasticity and preventing skin aging, and more particularly, to a composition for skin application, which contains, as an active ingredient, a polysaccharide extract of red ginseng having a molecular weight of less than 10,000, in which the polysaccharide extract of red ginseng has the effect of increasing the expression of mitochondrial electron transport system enzymes in human skin keratinocytes to enhance the activity of the skin cells, thereby reducing skin wrinkles, increasing skin elasticity and preventing skin aging.

Claims

1. A composition for skin application, which contains, as an active ingredient, a polysaccharide extract of red ginseng having a molecular weight of less than 10,000.

2. The composition of claim 1, wherein the composition is a composition for promoting the expression of mitochondrial electron transport system enzymes in skin cells.

3. The composition of claim 1, wherein the composition is a composition for reducing skin wrinkles.

4. The composition of claim 1, wherein the composition is a composition for enhancing skin elasticity.

5. The composition of claim 1, wherein the composition is a composition for preventing skin aging.

6. The composition of claim 1, wherein the composition is formulated into a cosmetic product or a Chinese medicine for supplementing Qi.