If you are young the word "broccoli"It sounded more like a threat, when we grow up we can reconcile ourselves with this vegetable with almost infinite beneficial properties. In addition to learning to taste them in different recipes, and not just as a side dish with meat or fish, today we can appreciate broccoli seed oil like the beauty revelation of 2019.

Broccoli: beauty and wellness

From the kitchen to the perfumery the jump is short, or almost. Now it is not so strange to find among the ingredients of a product of natural cosmetics a sort of unexpected and rather bizarre "salad" between hemp seeds, cucumber water or spinach extract. A trend all-natural growing that seems to be the result of a growing awareness of the planet through more responsible choices that go from conscious nutrition to self-care with alternative methods. By distancing ourselves from pure chemistry and recovering the forced distance from the earth, we rediscover what we have always known, but perhaps we have forgotten.

Belonging to the Cruciferous botanical family, broccoli cabbage is a super food like the black cabbage. It is in fact a food with high vitamin value (contains twice as much vitamin C as compared to orange) and is abundant with mineral salts such as potassium, iron, phosphorus, calcium and sulfur (to which the characteristic smell is due during cooking) ; all essential elements for the constitution of cells and tissues and for skin hydration. A veritable mine of health from the seed from which oil is obtained, a precious element with special characteristics: rich in vitamin A, is a powerful antioxidant suitable to protect the skin from the effects of environmental pollution by neutralizing free radicals that cause pimples, skin spots and wrinkles, while soothing fatty acids such as Omega-6 and Omega-9 they give an intense hydration, without stifling the pores, going to calm the inflammation of acne, eczema or facial rosacea.

Not only that: studies show that broccoli seed oil has the potential to prevent skin cancer. «It contains sulforafano, a compound that mobilizes the cellular defenses that protect the skin from damage U.V.A, confirms Marie Veronique Nadeau, founder of the homonymous skin care line. Although it certainly can not be considered a substitute for sunscreen, science confirms that broccoli seed oil significantly prevents cell damage caused by the sun.

Broccoli seed oil is also used in the hair care: nourishes and moisturizes the hair fiber in depth, even managing to tame frizz giving shine and natural smoothness. Experts in the field indicate it as a possible substitute for the balm for an application of about half an hour after shampooing; naturally only after testing any allergy. In fact, delicate and moisturizing, both oil and broccoli seed extract can be used by all types of skin, according to the dermatologist Joshua Zeichnera, naturally if you are not allergic to broccoli, cabbage & co.

Obtained with a different technique, also thebroccoli seed extract he has his own because in skin care. Concentrate of vitamins, substances and essential acids, contains a higher concentration of C vitamin which stimulates the production of collagen in the skin, all characteristics that Monica Kylèn of L: A Bruket has been able to capture to turn them into an effective serum.

With this overview of benefits, broccoli and its derivatives can only become the trend of 2019.

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