Lepidium Meyenii ●
TL;DR. This ingredient is used mainly as a skin-conditioning botanical extract, with secondary antioxidant and soothing-positioning roles depending on the extract format.
What does Lepidium Meyenii do in a cosmetic formula?
This ingredient is used mainly as a skin-conditioning botanical extract, with secondary antioxidant and soothing-positioning roles depending on the extract format.
Is Lepidium Meyenii clean?
From a clean-beauty perspective, it is generally well accepted and not a common restricted-list material. As with many botanicals, quality depends on pesticide controls, extraction solvent choice, and screening for potential sensitizers or impurities.
Is Lepidium Meyenii sustainable?
This material is plant-derived, renewable, and expected to be readily biodegradable. The main sustainability considerations are agricultural traceability, water and soil management, and fair sourcing from growing regions.
Is Lepidium Meyenii COSMOS-approved?
It can align with COSMOS-natural and COSMOS-organic when sourced and processed through permitted botanical extraction methods. It fits Green Chemistry best when grown with responsible agriculture and extracted using water, glycerin, ethanol, or other accepted solvents.
How does Lepidium Meyenii work chemically?
This material is a complex plant extract containing polar sugars, amino acids, minerals, phenolic compounds, and sulfur-containing plant metabolites rather than a single active molecule. Supplier use levels for cosmetic botanical extracts are commonly about 0.1–5%, with heat-sensitive fractions typically added during cool-down and formulated in mildly acidic to neutral systems.
Last updated 2026-05-15