Tea in our lives, in addition to tasting, food and medicinal functions and applications, in the daily chemical applications, can also play a role. In addition to the nutritional and medicinal functions of the various components of tea, there are also skin health and beauty, antibacterial, anti-inflammatory and deodorizing effects, the discovery of these effects, so that tea applications in the field of daily cosmetics, there are many daily products containing tea extracts on the market.

Skin protective agent

Tea polyphenols and other substances have strong antioxidant, clear active oxygen free radicals, reduce skin aging. The application of tea polyphenols in skin protective agents can not only slow down skin aging, but also be a natural antioxidant itself. Japan, the United Kingdom and other cosmetics, there are containing tea skin protectants.

Anti-odor, bath type daily chemical products

Tea extract in the tea polyphenol, tannin can make protein precipitation denaturation, with antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effect. At the same time, tea polyphenols and other flavonoids have a strong adsorption capacity, with deodorant effect. Japan has developed tea polyphenols containing mouthwash, mild skin irritation deodorant deodorant, containing oolong tea plate cleaner, containing tea extract air deodorant and containing tea toothpaste, soap, talcum powder and other patented products for daily use.

China also has similar products, such as the production of Zhejiang “Minghuanglu” added tea extract, Shashilian launched a green tea ingredients containing “green tea to oil refreshing shampoo”, Colgate also launched a “tea refreshing toothpaste “.

Sunscreen products

Tea polyphenols are sensitive to ultraviolet light, especially to cause sun dermatitis wavelengths of 2000-3300Å ultraviolet light has a strong absorption peak. At present, many sunscreens have added alpha-hydroxy acid, whose role is to protect the skin, the addition of tea polyphenols can reduce the amount of alpha-hydroxy acid, to further play its anti-radiation sunscreen effect.

Coloring agent

Tea leaves by different extraction methods can be obtained green, red, brown, yellow, brown and other pigments, these pigments can be used as coloring agents for food confectionery, but also for the production of cosmetic lipstick, hair dye.

Tea saponin-containing cosmetic products

Tea saponin is mainly distributed in tea leaves, tea seeds and roots of tea trees. Tea saponin has surface activity, emulsification and other properties, and non-toxic and non-side effects, safe to use. The use of its natural surface activity, can produce tea saponin shampoo, tea saponin bath net, etc.; its good emulsification can be used as an emulsifier for nutritional creams, so that the efficiency of emulsification of nutritional creams, and enhance the spread of nutritional creams on the skin.

Tea saponin also has an antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effect, it is added to the flower water made of tea saponin flower water, compared with the traditional flower water its antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effect is more significant, and tea saponin has a solubilizing effect on the flavor, to improve the quality of flower water has a positive effect.

Tea wine

Tea wine is a new generation of flavorful wine made from tea products as the main raw material, through biological fermentation, filtration, aging and blending. It has low alcoholic content, bright color and luster, soft mouthfeel, no throat sting and no headache. It is also rich in tea polyphenols, amino acids, tea polysaccharides, proteins and other substances, and has the inherent style of wine as well as the flavor and health care function of tea.

Now, at home and abroad have developed tea wine, tea beer, green tea wine and oolong tea wine and other products. The development and production of tea wine can make full use of tea resources, improve the income of tea farmers, broaden the liquor industry, and increase the variety of tea beverages and health care wine in China.

Tea fermented beverages

Tea fermented beverage mainly refers to the new health care tea beverage produced by microbial fermentation with tea aqueous extract as substrate. After microbial fermentation, the inner composition of tea leaves changes, increasing many microbial metabolic active substances, as well as the microbial bacterium itself and other active ingredients, making the quality and health care function greatly improved.

At present, there are domestic research reports on the application of microbial fermentation of tea beverages, such as Shao Wei and other fermentation of green tea with Bacillus cereus, Lactobacillus bulgaricus and Brewer’s yeast to produce green tea beverages rich in bacterial cellulose; Jiang Jie and other leaching of black tea with corn starch syrup, and symbiotic fermentation of lactic acid bacteria and yeast on the leaching solution to produce fermented beverages with high nutritional value and unique flavor, etc.

The role of tea for human beings is far from being finished, which requires generations of tea people, researchers, etc. to work for it. And looking back at Pu-erh tea, among the many experimental studies, the content of Yunnan big leaf tea inclusions have obvious advantages, how to better bring out these advantages? To broaden the development field of pu-erh tea, perhaps more pu-erh tea researchers and developers are needed to “add bricks” to the development of Chinese tea.

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