Step into the spotlight, beta glucan! This ingredient is gaining recognition as a skincare powerhouse. Beyond its impressive ability to deeply hydrate, beta-glucan (sometimes shown as β-glucan) is celebrated for its soothing benefits, and its role in skin barrier repair and overall visible skin health. Uncover the full potential of this versatile ingredient, from its unique benefits and synergistic pairings with other ingredients, to how you can seamlessly integrate beta glucan into your daily routine for a more resilient and radiant complexion.
What is beta glucan?
Beta glucan is a naturally occurring polysaccharide derived from sources like oats, mushrooms, and yeast. In skincare, it’s known as a powerful moisturizing ingredient inspired by its use in the medical field. Beta glucan is gaining attention for its multifunctional capabilities beyond hydration, as it’s shown1 to aid skin barrier repair and overall visible skin health.
What are the skin benefits of beta glucan?
In skincare, beta glucan is a triple threat, offering soothing benefits and intense hydration while promoting skin barrier repair. Beta glucan is a humectant, which means it’s a moisture magnet. It pulls in and locks moisture into your skin, creating a hydrating barrier without feeling greasy. If you have sensitive skin, you may like beta glucan as it’s also known for its calming and soothing properties. And notably, beta glucan is known to support the skin's natural barrier repair processes, helping to correct visible signs of skin damage.
What ingredients pair well with beta glucan?
Beta Glucan is a remarkably versatile ingredient that pairs well with a wide array of other skincare ingredients, largely due to its exceptional hydrating, soothing, and barrier-supporting properties. It pairs well with many hydrating ingredients like hyaluronic acid by not only flooding skin with moisture but also soothing and strengthening the skin barrier. Its ability to calm and enhance skin resilience makes beta glucan an excellent hydration partner for many actives, like retinol, helping to mitigate potential side effects while boosting overall visible skin health.
Hyaluronic Acid and Beta Glucan
Hyaluronic Acid and Beta Glucan form a powerful and highly complementary duo in skincare due to their individual strengths and how they work together to significantly boost skin hydration, soothing, and overall visible skin health.
Retinol and Beta Glucan
Retinol and Beta Glucan form a highly effective and synergistic pairing in skincare, primarily because beta glucan directly addresses and mitigates many of retinol's common downsides, like visible redness or irritation, allowing users to experience the full benefits of retinol more comfortably.
How to Use Beta Glucan in Your Routine
To effectively use beta glucan in your skincare routine and harness its hydrating, soothing, and barrier-supporting benefits, begin by cleansing and toning your skin, then gently pat the beta-glucan serum or cream onto your face and neck, allowing it to absorb before sealing in its goodness with your preferred moisturizer, and in the morning, finishing with broad-spectrum SPF. Beta glucan’s ability to moisturize, soothe, and fortify the skin barrier, while also complementing other ingredients like Hyaluronic Acid and Retinol, makes it a valuable addition to any skincare routine.
Shop Beta Glucan Skincare at Lancôme
At Lancôme, you can find beta glucan featured in Génifique Ultimate Recovery Serum and Génifique Ultimate Eye Cream.
Génifique Ultimate Recovery Serum with Beta Glucan
Your favorite Génifique serum has been enriched with the ultimate ingredient system featuring Beta Glucan to reverse the visible signs of skin damage in 1 week. Génifique Ultimate Recovery Serum has the same lightweight, fresh, fast absorbing feel as Advanced Génifique, but with an enveloping texture to help repair the skin barrier and prevent the formation of fine lines. This serum packs a whopping 90 trillion beta glucans in 1 drop to accelerate the skin’s natural barrier repair abilities and reverse visible skin damage.
Génifique Ultimate Eye Cream with Beta Glucan-CM
Reverse eye contour damage in just 1 week with Génifique Ultimate Eye Cream, specially formulated with Beta Glucan-CM, which is micronized (meaning finely milled) beta glucan, for the thin skin around the eye contour. Combined with enoxolone and caffeine, this eye cream addresses key signs of aging around the eye area while also soothing and visibly depuffing for brighter, smoother, and more youthful-looking eyes.
Génifique Ultimate Recovery Serum
Visible Damage & Skin Barrier Recovery
Génifique Ultimate Eye Cream
Dark Circle Reducing & Depuffing
Beta glucan stands out as a true hydration hero and a multifaceted ally in accelerating skin’s natural barrier repair abilities and correcting & preventing visible signs of skin damage for a more radiant, resilient, healthy-looking complexion. To experience the transformative power of beta glucan for yourself, explore beta glucan skincare at Lancôme, targeted solutions from Génifique Skincare designed to deliver the exceptional benefits of beta glucan right where your skin needs them most.
1 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0144861723007944?via%3Dihub
