KAD-15TM has an excellent property of inhibiting the activity of tyrosinase present in the human skin to inhibit melanin formation. It is more efficacious than straight kojic acid. KAD-15 can produce excellent effects in even toning the skin, fighting age spots, pregnancy marks, freckles as well as general skin pigmentation disorders of face and body. Unlike kojic acid, which often causes product stability problems such as color changes, KAD-15 offers excellent product stability without any color instability problems.
Features:
--Skin Lightening: KAD-15 offers more efficacious skin lightening effects. Compared with kojic acid, KAD-15 markedly enhances the inhibitory effects on tyrosinase activity, which prohibits the formation of melanin.
--Light and Heat Stability: KAD-15 is light and heat stable, while kojic acid tends to oxidize over time.
--pH Stability: KAD-15 is stable within a wide pH range of 4-9, which provides flexibility to formulators.
--Color Stability: Unlike kojic acid, KAD-15 does not turn brown or yellow over time for two reasons. First, kojic acid is not stable to light and heat, and tends to oxidize, which results in color change (often yellow or brown). Second, kojic acid tends to chelate with metal ions (e.g. iron), which often results in color change. On the contrary, KAD-15 is stable to pH, light, heat and oxidation, and does not complex with metal ions, which leads to color instability.
Applications:
Skin care, sun care, skin whitening/lightening, treatment for pigmentary disorders such as age spots etc.
Use Levels:
1.0-5.0 %.