When you look at ingredients found in your beauty products, a lot of them are familiar (though a lot aren’t—looking at you, unnecessary chemical additives). And while we might feel like we have a handle on what each of our go-to beauty products do, there’s a whole smorgasbord of weird ingredients that just make us go huh?, but that doesn’t necessarily mean we should knock them just yet. We’ve rounded up five of the weirdest beauty ingredients we could find—with products to go with then, you know, in case you’re curious to see what all the fuss is about.
Human umbilical cord
Novo Cellactive Serum
We always save the most bizarre for last, and it doesn’t get much more bizarre than human umbilical cord in facial products. Novo Cellactive Serum is a concentrated solution of proteins and nutrients from the umbilical cord of newborn babies. Before you get too weirded out, there’s no genetic material or cells, just cell signalers that stimulate cells. More active cells means an increase in collagen, which boosts skin firmness. Maybe she’s born with it… or maybe someone else was.
