Monteloeder targets “root cause of aging” with beauty-from-within botanical blend, EternalYoung

12 Apr 2023 --- A blend of four botanical ingredients, EternalYoung has been shown to provide powerful anti-aging benefits for the skin in a new clinical study. According to Monteloeder, the blend contains several polyphenols that promote enhanced skin elasticity, moisturization and radiance.

The company states that the beauty-from-within offering has both corrective and preventive effects and is therefore suitable for younger consumers who want to prevent the signs of aging and for mature consumers looking for aging skin solutions.

“EternalYoung contains multiple polyphenols that work synergistically to provide anti-aging benefits to the skin,” Miguel Poza, nutra division director of Monteloeder, tells NutritionInsight. “The formula combines pomegranate (Punica granatum), sweet orange (Citrus sinensis), desert ginseng ( Cistanche sp.) and gotu kola (Centella asiatica), which together have been shown to promote improved skin hydration, radiance and elasticity.”

“We are working hard to improve our current portfolio,” he continues. “One of the key areas where we want to add value to the market is in our botanical extract offering. We are also in the final stages of developing new branded ingredients for chronic pain, cognitive health and we are working on a new line in women's health.”

Polyphenol power
Monteloeder states that the Eternalyoung blend was developed to “synergistically target the underlying mechanisms” of aging by reducing or modulating cellular activities related to the processes of skin aging.

The botanical blend inhibits the underlying mechanisms in skin aging.Furthermore, the company states that previous studies have found that consuming phenolic compounds such as the flavones, punicalagins, triterpenes and phenylpropanoids in Eternalyoung provides antioxidant and anti‐inflammatory effects that benefit skin. 

“Overall, botanical ingredients offer a natural and effective way to promote anti-aging and improve skin health,” says Poza. “Botanical ingredients have been used for centuries in traditional medicine to promote health and longevity. In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the anti-aging effects of botanical ingredients in skincare and beauty products.”

“The Eternalyoung ingredients have been chosen with great care and attention to detail. In order to ensure their effectiveness, different botanical actives were put through various tests, including antioxidant, proliferative and melanin inhibition bioassays. Based on these studies, the best candidates were identified and used to create different formulations.”

Clinically proven effects
The clinical trial was a 12-week randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study of 60 women aged 35 to 69, all of whom exhibited signs of sun-induced and chronological skin aging. Each participant received a daily hard gelatin capsule of 225 mg of either the Eternalyoung complex or a placebo. 

The study found that the botanical blend intervention visibly and structurally improved the skin and reduced signs of aging, without side effects. 

“EternalYoung is the result of extensive research and experimentation on numerous botanical actives for their antioxidant and melanin inhibiting activity, as well as their ability to stimulate skin cell proliferation,” Poza explains. “In addition, EternalYoung is able to reduce telomere shortening while activating telomerase, an enzyme that helps to maintain telomere length and in turn stimulate rejuvenation.”

“The positive effects observed in this study may be due to increased fibroblast proliferation and reduced oxidative stress and glycation. It also maintains the skin's youthful state by targeting the root cause of aging. By maintaining the length of telomeres, it extends the lifespan of cells and stimulates aging cells to behave like young cells,” he concludes.

Moreover, the research was a follow-up to a previous in vitro study on human dermal fibroblasts that found the blend displayed the same effects on fibroblasts and telomere shortening rates while reducing the percentage of critically short telomeres.

By William Bradford Nichols