crème ancienne white truffle face cream

Our extract is sourced from white truffles that grow wild in a designated area of the forests of Alba, Italy. Between October and December, optimal environmental conditions allow the white truffles to form. At maturation, the white truffles produce a strong smell. In a long-standing local tradition, master truffle hunters use expertly trained dogs that detect the smell and handpick the precious white truffles. The process of finding the white truffles requires patience and attention to detail. With sustainability of the rare plant a necessity, the hunters collect the truffles very carefully to ensure there will be enough truffle to grow and hunt in the future. This pristine environment helps to yield a pure white truffle. In an in-depth scientific analysis conducted by a third-party lab, over 500 elements were tested and not detected, demonstrating that there are no known traces of pesticides or impurities in our white truffles.

After our white truffle is carefully collected, it is frozen at peak freshness using a cryo-preservation process. Cryo-preservation is an advanced system for natural preservation that maintains the nutritional characteristics of the Alba white truffle—freezing time for the truffle and your skin. It is then purified using a patented¹ enzymatic extraction process to release 100% of the truffle’s bioactive compounds. We capture all the active molecules from the white truffle in one potent extract to help fade the look of expression lines and wrinkles and redefine facial contours.

• ¹patent granted ITBO20070542