• Probiotics is a common name for different strains of good (friendly) bacteria.
• On our skin and in our bodies there are billions of microbes - living bacteria - on average we have 19 strains of good bacteria on our skin. Within each of these strains there are thousands of different species of bacteria, and within each species there are billions of bacteria.
• These good bacteria produce various peptides, amino acids and other nutrients that our skin can utilize and protect itself with. A good flora of probiotics will also contribute to a good, slightly acidic pH on the skin (Optimal pH in the skin is about 4.2 - 5.0)
• Prebiotics: Food and nutrition for active probiotics. Probiotics eat and utilize prebiotics.
• Probiotics: Live good bacteria that are either in an active state or dormant, but awaken when in contact with prebiotics.
• Postbiotics: Microcells and residues from dead probiotics that living probiotics use as building blocks, nutrition and fuel.
• Both prebiotics and postbiotics are essential for probiotic microbes to function well. Probiotic bacteria feed on prebiotics, and use building blocks from postbiotics.
The microbiome is an ecosystem of microorganisms that live on the skin. Each person has their own unique microbiome, and it consists of billions of bacteria and other microorganisms that live on the skin.
Each person has their own unique combination of good bacteria - our personal microbiome. These bacteria are essential for our existence.
• The balance and condition of the good bacteria affects the appearance and condition of the skin.
• When the good bacteria are unable to survive, the skin's microbiome becomes unbalanced, and researchers believe this can cause skin problems such as acne, eczema, and sensitive skin.
• Probiotics in skincare add good bacteria that help support the microbiome, the ecosystem of microbes and good bacteria on our skin. Balance can be restored and the skin's condition becomes healthy again.
1. The main reason we use probiotics is to effectively use probiotics to ferment and break down important ingredients, making them more readily available to the skin. At the same time, we can fine-tune our products to help address various skin concerns in the most effective way possible.
2. We also use prebiotics and postbiotics to help your existing microbiome, it nourishes the good bacteria that already live on the skin, allowing them to thrive and create a healthy environment on the skin.
3. Another reason we use active probiotics in our products is that the active and live probiotics help to help the microbiome create balance and achieve healthy skin.
We have been using active probiotics in our products since 2015. We have developed our own unique probiotic culture that is perfectly synchronized in our skincare products. We use healthy microbes from 12 different bacterial strains:
1. Acetobacter xylinoides
2. Acetobacter ketogenum
3. Saccharomycodes ludwigii
4. Saccharomycodes apiculatus
5. Schizosaccharomyces pombe
6. Zygosaccharomyces
7. Saccharomyces cerevisiae
8. Brettanomyces
9. Lactobacillus
10. Pediococcus
11. Gluconacetobacter kombuchae
12. Zygosaccharomyces kombuchaensis
Our probiotics are unique, and our special probiotic culture is the only one in the world and is only used in Marina Miracle products.
• Probiotic fermentation is a process that Marina Miracle uses to achieve the exact desired effect and nutritional content in its skincare product. When you ferment an ingredient in a probiotic culture, you get the best of both worlds.
• The process often starts with various organic sprouted seeds, herbs, fruits, berries and plants. We mix the ingredient we want to ferment with our probiotic culture, which consists of 12 species of bacteria. During the fermentation process, which often takes at least 30 days, the active ingredients in the raw material are converted into a juice, where the molecules are broken down into smaller 'pieces' that make it easier for the skin to absorb the nutrients. This is carefully filtered and processed, and we then get a probiotic fermented juice that contains both pre-, pro- and post-biotics along with enzymes, vitamins, minerals and other nutrients.
• In this way, the skin receives not only probiotics that can support the microbiome, but also nutrition that penetrates the skin more easily, and thus the skin is strengthened, improved and balanced.
• This probiotic fermented juice contains both nutrition from the plant/ingredient and all the good bacteria that will balance and strengthen the skin barrier.
• Our unique probiotic juices also contain lots of antioxidants, enzymes, vitamins, peptides, AHA acids and amino acids that are created naturally by live probiotics.
After conducting several tests of our own products and other skincare brands on the market at external accredited laboratories, we learn that the number of viable microbes per gram (CFU) will always be very variable. (In all the tests conducted, Marina Miracle had the highest numbers.)
Although the same laboratory may measure our product at 6 million microbes per gram, it is clear that when we test our products and other brands, the CFU will vary greatly and therefore not have the same amount of live microbes as promised. Marina Miracle has therefore concluded that we do not want to make such a promise of a specific number of CFU per product, as it would be misleading marketing.
We believe that focusing on the number of microbes per gram only distracts from a much more important issue. To balance the symbiosis, your complex microbiome, you need to replenish as many of these good bacteria as possible and support your existing microbiome with pre- and postbiotics. That's why we use probiotics from a full 12 strains along with pre- and postbiotics.
• Sweet & Creamy Oil Cleanser
• White Temptation Mask Mask
• Super Skin Food Mask
• Clear Skin Hydra Cream
• Ageless Boosting Cream
• Triple Effect Eye Cream
• Flower Berry Essence
• PRO Green Mask
