The anti-ageing benefits of safflowers are even more concentrated in the buds of the plant, as Christelle Graizeau explains
Why are buds or newborn plants so attractive? Simply because they constitute the embryonic part of the plant where cellular turnover is intense. Buds contain much more nucleic acid than any other part of the plant, bringing together the potential biological energies and power of the future plant. When spring arrives buds become the plant’s memory and help it to revive. They contain vitamins, trace elements, phytohormones and salts. Furthermore, scientific studies in gemmotherapy (bud therapy) have demonstrated that buds have more concentrated active ingredients than adult plants and can even combine the activities of two different parts of the adult plant. Pharmacological or cosmetic activities can therefore be expected to be much higher in bud extracts than in common plant extracts.
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