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Elderberry
Antioxidant Defence

Elderberry

Summary

Antioxidant-rich elderberry that helps protect against environmental stress.

Shelter in the formula

Elderberry sits in our formulas for one job: defending skin against everyday environmental stress. We file it under Antioxidant Defence in this glossary because that is the effect its evidence actually supports, not because it is the most flattering label available.

Shelter in the dark fruit

The mechanism is the one stated in the summary above, and we have deliberately not extended it. Where a supplier or a competitor would reach for a bigger promise, the sentence we publish stops where the research stops.

Shelter in the evidence

Our source is a peer reviewed observational or laboratory study, recorded as Liu 2022 PMID 35348337. You can read it yourself at PubMed 35348337. We grade that as solid support for what the ingredient does.

Shelter and its limits

The research behind Elderberry studies the ingredient, not the finished Opuliss product it sits in. It supports what Elderberry does. It is not a trial of our formula, and we will not present it as one.

Cosmetic claims describe how skin looks and feels. Nothing here is a medical claim, and nothing here treats a condition.