Antioxidant Activity of Red Ginseng Ingested Urine as a Cosmetic Material

Moon, Yeon-sook; Lee, Min-hyeok; Kang, Sang-mo

Journal of the Korean Society of Cosmetology 2019;25(2):436-445.
Published online April 30, 2019.

화장품 소재로서 홍삼식이뇨(尿)의 항산화 활성

문연숙, 이민혁, 강상모

Antioxidant Activity of Red Ginseng Ingested Urine as a Cosmetic Material

Yeon-sook Moon, Min-hyeok Lee, Sang-mo Kang

Abstract

In this study, we looked into the antioxidant effect of heated urine containing red ginseng, especially which red ginseng is used as raw material for cosmetics. Experimental materials were classified into three types: normal urine, heated urine, and heated urine containing red ginseng. Heated urine containing red ginseng refers to a urine that contains 9.54 ng/mL of compound K after red ginseng ingestion. Each urine sample was acquired from the following method: repeated 30-munite pasteurization of classified urines in a tank (80oC) 3 times every 15 minutes, concentrated and freeze-dried them. For measurement of antioxidation, DPPH, ABTS, and FRAP as well as total content of Polyphenol and Flavonoids were measured. As to the total content of Polyphenol for each urine sample, 84.33

Key Words: Anti-ageing, Antioxidant, Compound K, Cosmetic, Red ginseng, Urine