All Ingredients/Evening Primrose
Evening Primrose
Summary
GLA-rich oil that nourishes and comforts dry, reactive skin.
Balm in the formula
Evening Primrose sits in our formulas for one job: keeping reactive skin comfortable. We file it under Calming in this glossary because that is the effect its evidence actually supports, not because it is the most flattering label available.
Balm in the barrier
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.
Balm in the evidence
Our source is a peer reviewed observational or laboratory study, recorded as Gehring 1999 PMID 10442214. You can read it yourself at PubMed 10442214. We grade that as solid support for what the ingredient does.
Balm and its limits
The research behind Evening Primrose studies the ingredient, not the finished Opuliss product it sits in. It supports what Evening Primrose 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.
