Welcome to Herbal Beauty Innovation. Natural Skin CareThe Hb Extraxt for Improving Skin HealthRubber trees (Hevea brasiliensis) are wounded almost everyday by tapping. This repetitive wounding stress assists in signaling the tree to produce special phytochemicals for facilitating rapid wound-healing and new tissue generation in order to replace the old tissue damaged by tapping. It is conceivable that natural rubber latex will be very rich in various phytochemicals such as, (protease inhibitors; organic acids: AHA, BHA and AA; sugars: sucrose, fructose, quebrachitol; super antioxidant: ergothoneine; vitamin B2 and B5; mineral: Cr, Cu, Mn, Se,Zn and tannis) most of which have from time to time been include in expensive skin health care product from reputable ?beauty care? companies. An Hb extract, which characteristic 1H-NMR spectrum, was prepared from fresh latex serum. Upon applying this Hb extract onto skin, according to the OECD Test Guidelines, no adverse effects were observed in irritation and skin sensitization tests, using animal models. The microbial load of the Hb extract was within the standard limits allowed by the FDA. Moreover, an Hb cream, containing 5 gm% of Hb dried power extract, was show to improve the skin health of several volunteers. After nine weeks of topical application their faces, the self-assessment data collected from those with facial melasma (n=64) indicated positive effects on skin whitening (98.4%), melasma fading (96.8%), skin smoothening (92.2%) and reduction of sebum level (53.1%),86.1% resuction of the intensity of acne scarring.