These foaming toning lotions contain saponins that improve skin

Simplicité Hydrating Floral Toning Lotions gently foam when the bottle is shaken.

There's no added foaming agent, it’s simply our active plant extracts behaving as some plants do in Nature.

The foam - caused by natural plant saponins in our whole plant extracts - is a big thumbs up for your skin. That's because plant saponins in our Toning Lotions help skin to easily absorb Simplicité Face Oils and Serums.

Foaming plants in Nature

This natural phenomenon occurs when, usually after a long dry spell, you'll see trees in pouring rain foaming through their bark. The downpour solubilises (shakes) the tree’s natural surfactants (natural plant saponins) causing these to become visible.

These substances mix with the rainwater and concentrate at the tree’s base, creating a crude soap. After bouncing through troughs in the bark the mixture bubbles up into what we see as foam.

Saponins are found in the bark, leaves, stems, seeds roots, and flowers of many plants. The name ‘saponin’ comes from the word for soap, ‘sapo’, in Latin because these water-soluble plant extracts foam up when agitated in water.

Shaking our Toning Lotion bottle is a similar action to rainwater flowing down a tree's trunk and dissolving saponin compounds in the tree bark.

Both actions change the water surface tension - air is introduced due to the turbulence of the water, and foam is formed because of the altered surface tension.

How natural plant saponins benefit skin

The scientific explanation is they're hydrophilic (can mix/dissolve in water) and reduce surface tension.

Which simply means they boost how well your skin absorbs our Face Oils and Serums.

Always mix our toning spritz in your hand with a pump of two of our Serums and Face Oils before applying these. Doing this helps skin to easily and deeply absorb the plant extracts and fine-textured pure plant oils. Having well exfoliated skin also helps the deep absorption.

Because our plant extracts are freshly made from high activity herbs they contain so many compounds that improve skin. Saponins fit into the broad group called phytochemicals that a plant uses to protect against or prevent disease. Also in this group are isoflavones that mimic estrogen and the antioxidants, carotenoids and flavonoids.

Other compounds our plant extracts contain besides saponins are alkaloids, phenols, glycosides, carbohydrates, tannins, steroids and terpenoids.

For instance, our fresh whole herb extract of Lavender contains anthocyanins, minerals, flavonoids, and polyphenols along with saponins.

Nature-identical plant extracts in Simplicité Toning Lotions

Toning Lotion for Combination/Dry and Oily Skin
contains Herbalist-made fresh whole plant extracts of Lavender (France), Rose Petal (India), Witch Hazel (USA), Chamomile flowers (France), Cornsilk (Lockyer Valley, Qld), Angelica root (Germany), Olive leaf (Australia). Peppermint (Australia), Thyme (Australia), freshly extracted organic Aloe Vera leaf juice (Qld Australia), Niaouli (Madagascar), Rose Geranium (Kenya).

Hydrating Floral Toning Lotion for Normal/Dry Skin contains Herbalist-made fresh whole plant extracts of Chamomile flowers (Egypt), Lemon Balm leaf (Australia), Alfalfa leaf and flowers (Australia), Heartsease leaf and flowers (Australia), Olive leaf (Australia), Elderflower (Germany), Rose Petal (Bulgaria), freshly extracted organic Aloe Vera leaf juice (Qld Australia), Rose Geranium (Kenya), Sweet Orange (USA), Neroli flower (Orange Blossom) (Italy).

Countries in brackets are where David sources the hghest-activity herbs, from which he makes his concentrated fresh extracts.

Saponins are also known for their anti-inflammatory, anti-bacterial, anti-viral, and hemolytic properties.

The cosmetic industry knows the value of saponins. They’re widely used, though not as Simplicité uses whole plant extracts in large volumes, with all the plant’s compounds intact. Factory processed saponin is a brown powder that's also used in pre-made water and glycerin extract mixtures.