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Simplicité Hydrating Floral Toning Lotions gently foam when the bottle is shaken.
There's no added foaming agent. This is just our active plant extracts behaving as many plants do in Nature.
You won't see this happen with other 'toners'.
It's visible 'proof' Simplicité products contain a lot of plants. That's a big plus for your skin. The plant saponins that cause our Toning Lotions to foam when shaken are what help skin to easily absorb Simplicité Face Oils and Serums.
Foaming plants in Nature
Saponins are found in the bark, leaves, stems, seeds roots, and flowers of many plants. The name ‘saponin’ comes from the word for soap, ‘sapo’, in Latin because these water-soluble plant extracts foam up when agitated in water.
It's uually in pouring rain after a long dry spell that you'll see trees foaming through their bark. The downpour solubilises (shakes) the tree’s natural surfactants (natural plant saponins) causing these to become visible.
The plant saponins mix with rainwater as it bounces through troughs in the bark and the mixture bubbles up into what we see as foam. This concentrates at the tree’s base, creating a crude soap.
Shaking our Toning Lotion bottle is a similar action to rainwater flowing down a tree's trunk and dissolving saponin compounds in the tree bark.
Both actions change the water surface tension - air is introduced due to the turbulence of the water, and foam is formed because of the altered surface tension.
How natural plant saponins benefit skin
The scientific explanation is they're hydrophilic (can mix/dissolve in water) and reduce surface tension.
Why that's good for your skin - they boost absorption our Face Oils and Serums.
How to apply Simplicité Face Oils and Serums with Toning Lotion
First mix a pump of two of Serum or Face Oil in your hand with a spritz or two of Toning Lotion. Rub hands together then apply Serum/Face Oil to face, neck and decolletage. Doing this helps skin to easily and deeply absorb the plant extracts and fine-textured pure plant oils. Having well exfoliated skin also helps the deep absorption.
Simplicité plant extracts are freshly made from high activity herbs. Because of that they contain a great many compounds that improve skin.
Saponins are just one of these compounds. Saponins fit into the broad group called phytochemicals that a plant uses to protect against or prevent disease. Also in this group are isoflavones that mimic estrogen and the antioxidants, carotenoids and flavonoids.
Other compounds our plant extracts contain besides saponins are alkaloids, phenols, glycosides, carbohydrates, tannins, steroids and terpenoids.
For instance, our fresh whole herb extract of Lavender contains saponins, but also anthocyanins, minerals, flavonoids, and polyphenols.
Nature-identical plant extracts in Simplicité Toning Lotions
Toning Lotion for Combination/Dry and Oily Skin
contains Herbalist-made fresh whole plant extracts of Lavender (France), Rose Petal (India), Witch Hazel (USA), Chamomile flowers (France), Cornsilk (Lockyer Valley, Qld), Angelica root (Germany), Olive leaf (Australia). Peppermint (Australia), Thyme (Australia), freshly extracted organic Aloe Vera leaf juice (Qld Australia), Niaouli (Madagascar), Rose Geranium (Kenya).
Hydrating Floral Toning Lotion for Normal/Dry Skin contains Herbalist-made fresh whole plant extracts of Chamomile flowers (Egypt), Lemon Balm leaf (Australia), Alfalfa leaf and flowers (Australia), Heartsease leaf and flowers (Australia), Olive leaf (Australia), Elderflower (Germany), Rose Petal (Bulgaria), freshly extracted organic Aloe Vera leaf juice (Qld Australia), Rose Geranium (Kenya), Sweet Orange (USA), Neroli flower (Orange Blossom) (Italy).
Country names in brackets are where David sources each hghest-activity herb from.
Saponins are also known for their anti-inflammatory, anti-bacterial, anti-viral, and hemolytic properties.
The cosmetic industry knows the value of saponins. They’re widely used, though not in the way Simplicité uses whole plant extracts with all the plant’s compounds intact.
Factory processed saponin is heat extracted from various plants and ends up as a brown powder that's also used in pre-made water and glycerin extract mixtures.
