Nutricosmetics: role in health, nutrition, and cosmetics

Nutricosmetics by-products and constituents enhance the skin, hair, and nails' inherent attractiveness through nutrition. Nutricosmetics is emerging to be in demand in the cosmetics sector of the industry. The by-product constituents like vitamins, collagen, peptides, carotenes, minerals, proteins, and fatty acids are drawing special attention in the thorough analysis of the worldwide nutricosmetics market. The preference for formulations for cosmeceuticals made from natural products rather than synthetic substances stems from consumers' quest for new, better, and safer goods. The bioactive peptides generated from plants and microalgae are used in functional foods, medications, and cosmetics because they are known to be selective, effective, harmless, and fully absorbed by the body. Antioxidants are the most important of the substances amongst the different constituents of nutricosmetics such as beta-carotene, lycopene, and other carotenoids as well as polyphenols like anthocyanidins, catechins, etc. are the most well-known ones. Algal polysaccharides like fucoidans, alginates, and others result in distinct structural and functional characteristics. Customers today are very selective about what they consume and there is a growing need for naturally derived solutions having undesirable adverse consequences for the positive impacts on one's fitness and beauty. Numerous of these substances have been discovered to offer, among other things, antiaging, moisturizing, anti-oxidative, and other properties. This review gives an overview of the different roles of nutricosmetics derived from plant extract and algae with a focus on their role in different sectors of industries such as food, cosmeceuticals, etc.