You likely recognize lemongrass as an ingredient in Thai food and other Southeast
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Asian countries. This fragrant tropical plant has been used for cooking as well as
traditional medicine for thousands of years.
It was in the Philippines where the first known records
about lemongrass cultivation and export originated in the
17th century. By 1917, lemongrass had been introduced
to Haiti and tropical areas of the United States. Seventy-
nine years later, AIM introduced Renewed Balance, and,
for good reason, lemongrass oil is a major ingredient in the
formulation of this soothing body cream.
The species used to obtain Renewed Balance's lemongrass oil is
Cymbopogon schoenanthus, which is also known as camel grass. And like
the "self-moisturizing" camel that can desert walk for a week without water,
lemongrass oil is a natural skin moisturizer that provides you with a
variety of inner-beauty benefits.
Recognized for its citrus fragrance, lemongrass oil contains citral and myrcene,
antioxidants that help fight free radicals that damage collagen and elastin in your skin.
This means citral and myrcene combat the signs of aging, such as wrinkles, fine lines
and age spots, so lemongrass helps prevent further damage and aging of your skin.
Citral and myrcene are also terpenes, unsaturated hydrocarbons present in the
essential oils of plants such as lemongrass and citrus plants. These compounds may
help stimulate your skin fibroblasts: the cells responsible for producing collagen.
Furthermore, lemongrass oil provides astringent properties that help tighten
up pores and shrink enlarged pores that accentuate fine lines and wrinkles. This
lemongrass action makes wrinkles appear less prominent.
The inclusion of lemongrass oil in the body-cream formulation only
adds to the plant-based beauty of Renewed Balance.
From The AIM Companies Living Well Magazine, October 2023
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