Qu’est-ce que l’hydrolat de jeunes pousses d’orge certifié BIO?

You probably have an idea of what young barley shoots are. But if we talk to you about barley sprouts hydrolate, it gets more complicated.

No panic, hydrolat is just the technical term used in cosmetic jargon to refer to a form of floral water or plant water.

Be careful, it is not juice obtained by pressing the plant. Otherwise, your eye patches would probably be green! It's a bit more technical to extract this precious liquid. But yes, it could have been called "young barley shoot plant water".

And it is the occasion to talk to you, since you appreciate organic cosmetics, about a method of extraction among the most ancestral of the vegetable active principles: the steam distillation. And yes, biotechnology is great, but in many cases, we use good old-fashioned and undeniable techniques.

Let's start with a little reminder of the principle of distillation

Steam distillation is a very popular extraction process in organic cosmetics, as it does not require the use of solvents. This ancestral method works only with heat and a still. This device, which consists of a succession of containers, allows the separation and collection of the different liquid constituents of a plant, according to their boiling temperature.

If the plant contains aromatic compounds, we will obtain on the one hand: the hydrolat (roughly the steam once cooled and condensed) and on the other hand: the essential oil. The distillation of rose petals will, for example, produce hydrolat or floral water of rose as well as essential oil of rose. It is thus the meeting point between herbalism and aromatherapy!
The advantage of the hydrolat is that it contains more of the plant's active ingredients than if a classic infusion process had been used, for example. It is however much more diluted and therefore gentler on the skin than an essential oil.
This is why you can use floral or vegetable waters without moderation on your skin, whereas precautions must be taken with essential oils!

The benefits of barley grass in cosmetics

Young barley shoots or barley grass are part of the superfoods. Barley is harvested before it starts to develop seeds. The advantage of using the plant in its immature form: a greater wealth of trace elements such as copper, potassium, manganese and zinc. Barley grass also contains vitamins: B, C and E. We say: "Only good things to revitalize the skin and help it to rebalance its natural functions"!

Since the spikes have not yet formed, the plant's tillers are used. Imagine grass with several sprigs from the same plant. It's the same thing, except that instead of grass sprigs, we will have mini-stems. The tillers are precisely these stems of young shoots resulting from the initial seedling. They will form a kind of tuft as you can see on the picture. Each stem will not produce a spike. The strongest ones will grow longer and the others will regress naturally. But in our case, we don't really care because we will harvest the plant before this phase of competition between stems!

A Gluten-free cereal whose hydrolate is present in our Eye Patches

Quite honestly, we are a bit skeptical about the idea of putting forward the "Gluten free" in the marketing argumentation of our eye patches. Indeed, there is very little risk that you will eat them after use (it is strongly discouraged). Therefore, we do not mention it in the product description.

It is however an interesting topic in a blog. The debate remains open as to the risks of gluten allergy that could be present in cosmetics. But for products used around and on the mouth, it is conceivable.

So, we could consider with the same hydrogel techno as for the Eye Patches, a mask for the lips.

Would you be interested?

Please note:

If you wish to try a remineralizing and revitalizing cure of young barley shoots juice, you can find it in organic stores in the form of a very practical powder to be diluted. And contrary to the colorless version in the form of vegetable water used in our patches, you can admire its beautiful green color. And yes, in addition to the minerals and vitamins, you will also benefit from a good dose of antioxidant chlorophyll in this form.

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