Plant Squalene vs Animal Squalene

"Which Squalene is better, plant squalene or animal (life) squalene?"

Plant Squalene = extract from olive oil, palm oil or wheat germ oil etc.
Animal Squalene = extract from deep shark liver oil

I have asked above question to many people who use squalene oil for their businesses (hair dressers, beauticians, and dermatologist etc) but most of them cannot tell me exactly which is better. Here are the some of the common opinions I have gathered so far;

1) Animal Squalene has high purity, 99.0%. Plant Squalene purity is often between 92 ~ 96%, and it has to go through longer process to produce.

2) Many people prefer the texture of Plant Suqalene. It doesn't feel as oily as Animal Squalene.

3) Some people are very objectionable towards how Animal Squalene are produced. I have read that some companies only use sharks which got caught in the shark net, (Shark nets are placed in many beaches in the world to protect humans and other marine species from shark attacks.) but there are some other manufacturers which kill sharks for commercial purposes.

I have only used HABA products which are made of animal squalene and I would like to gather some information and opinions from people who uses plant squalene products.


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Squalene Skin Care Products

Because Squalene oil is known as superior natural moisturizer, there are many Squalene skincare products on the market which are produced by so-called natural cosmetic companies. The most of these cosmetics are called Squalane products. Here is a reason why.

In the last post I mentioned that Squalene is unsaturated hydrocarbon, which can easily produce oxygen by combining with water. But there is a problem in its instability of the molecule. Because of its high degree of unsaturation, Squalene is prone to oxidation and subsequent reduced shelf-life as a cosmetic product. To overcome with this problem, Squalene was completely hydrogenerated to form called Squalane. Squalane is derived from Squalene, but it is much more stable against oxidation. Therefore, the most of skincare and cosmetic products using Squalene are called Squalane products.

Applying high quality Squalane oil (99.9% pure Squalene oil) protects your skin from ultraviolet rays and moisturizes to prevent dryness and chapping which results in a finer, more textured skin. Squalane oil is also an excellent carrier of additional nutrients as it penetrates the dermis layer much more deeply than most topical creams and lotions. Because of those effect, Squalane Oil is recommended for treatment of acne scar, sun damange, light burn, pigmentation (age spots, freckles etc.), hair care, and keratinized elbow, knee and heels.

The followings are the well known Squalane oil skincare products;

HABA
HABA (Heald Aid Beauty Aid) is a natural skin care and cosmetic brand from Japan. All HABA products are paraben, fragrance, mineral oil, chemically synthesized tar color and petrochemical surfactant free. (All of these common additives can cause skin irritations and allergic reactions.)
Their most popular product is 'HABA SQUALANE'. It is 99.9% pure Squalene oil extracted from deep sea shark's liver.
They also have makeup, hair care and body care lines and most of their products contain Squalane.
You will see more about their products here,
http://www.habaus.com/

Mayumi Squalene

Another products from Japan (Japan Health Products). Mayumi Squalene contains 99.9% pure Squalene oil extracted from liver of Aizame (dogfish) sharks, which inhabit non polluted waters at depths of 3000 feet. They have smaller range than HABA brand but prices are much more reasonable. Their most popular product is Mayumi Squalene oil, followed by squalene lotion and squalene oil capsules as dietary supplement.

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