The Marine Organisms and the Cosmetics

Abstract

The market of the cosmetics and products for the personal care has experienced a growing interest in the last years with the use fundamentally, of products of natural origin.    

In particular, the marine seaweeds have had an important contribution in the industry from the current cosmetics to international level and references of the employment of different species of algae exist with these ends. The chemical composition of obtained extracts of this source as well as the diversity of pharmacological actions that you/they show, inside those that stand out its anti-rust capacity, endorses its use. The target of action of the cosmetic formulations is the skin and its structures, since when acting like a barrier protector between the organism and the environment, stays constantly exposed to biological agents, chemical compounds and physical phenomena as the ultraviolet solar radiation (UV). In Cuba, investigations have been developed in this address in those that the potentialities of different seaweeds and marine grasses were studied for its use in cosmetics what allowed identifying the species of more interest perspective. In particular, the derived results of the chemical, pharmacological and toxicological study with the denominated extract BM-21, obtained of the marine plants Thalassia testudinum, y the metabolite fundamental present in the extract, (thalassiolin B) they sustain the interest in completing the studies that facilitate their industrial use for the care of the skin before the derived consequences of the solar radiations and they justify the interest of the Cuban marine ecosystem for these ends.