Dermo-Cosmetic Benefits of Marine Macroalgae-Derived Phenolic Compounds

Marine macroalgae have an interesting profile of bioactive compounds and gained tremendous attention in cosmeceuticals with negligible toxicity effects (cytotoxicity, reproductive toxicity, genotoxicity, mutagenicity, carcinogenicity, etc.) on humans exhibit strong benefits for the skin. Among diversified compounds, phenolic are group phytochemicals found high amounts great structural diversity. Phlorotannin is most studied polyphenol compound brown algae, but besides there some other observed such as terpenoids, bromophenols, mycosporine amino acids (MAAs), flavonoids. These already characterized their full range cosmeceutical skin whitening, moisturizing, photoprotection, antiaging, antiwrinkle, anti-melanogenic, antioxidant activities well treatment pruritus (caused by acne, eczema, dermatitis, hives, psoriasis), photoaging, pigmentation disorders (hypopigmentation due to absence melanocytes hyperpigmentation caused irritation or metabolic disorders). This review study mainly focuses marine algae-derived extraction, characterization, cosmetic described literature. The present aims provide a detailed insight into algae.