Caviar and roe are essentially fish eggs. They have been a delicacy for hundreds of years, with people throughout history claiming that it has all kinds of health benefits and curative powers. It’s only recently though that we’ve had the technology to thoroughly analyze the stuff, compare different varieties and find out whether it really lives up to the hype. In short, it most certainly does. It’s packed with nutrients like nothing else, making it both a genuine superfood and an exceptional ingredient for use in cosmetics. OROGOLD reviews how caviar works in this article.

Fish is generally very rich in protein, vitamins, essential fatty acids and minerals which is why it’s such a good health food. It has almost everything the body needs in extraordinary quantities. Caviar, however, is like ultra-concentrated super fish. Pound for pound, caviar is more than three times as nutritious as the fish it came from, while also being particularly rich in protein and vitamins A, B1, B2, B6, D, E, and H. This stands to reason. Each little globe of roe has to sustain a rapidly growing fish for up to a week. The only way it can do this is by being packed full of concentrated nutrients. But that’s not the only reason it’s so good. Over the course of its life, a fish will accumulate some of whatever they eat. As a result most fish, both wild and farmed, are contaminated by heavy metals and other environmental pollutants by the time they reach adulthood. Caviar doesn’t have this problem.

It’s best to think of both roe and the caviar extracts found in cosmetics as a highly efficient materials. Put simply, nature has outdone us. We just don’t have the technology to synthesise or otherwise fabricate anything like it. But that doesn’t mean we can’t improve on nature. It’s been well established that the chemical composition of caviar changes depending on what the fish are fed and where they live. As such, each caviar farm has a unique product with distinctive characteristics that make them best suited for different uses, ranging from food and supplements to cosmetics and medicines.

Cosmetic companies are naturally focused on the cosmetic functions of caviar, and has already utilized it to great effect. There are basically two parts to all skin creams – the delivery mechanism and the main ingredients. The delivery mechanism is what lets the main ingredients penetrate the outer layers of skin in order to work their magic. The big challenge of cosmetics is creating something that can efficiently do both. To date, no product is perfect. There’s always a trade-off where more main ingredients means a poorer delivery mechanism and vice-versa. That’s where the caviar extract comes in. Because it’s such a highly concentrated material, a tiny amount of it has as many active ingredients as a proverbial bucket full of anything else. This means caviar creams can employ more effective delivery agents while simultaneously having more of the active ingredients. As a result, caviar extract cosmetics are some of the most versatile, lightweight and effective products ever made.