(Yicai Global) June 13 -- The Yunnan province-based Winona drew spotlights among world's pharmaceutical  and cosmetic companies,who bring their latest research results to address sensitive, eczema and other skin diseases at the 24th World Congress of Dermatology held in Milan yesterday.

Winona is a brand of the Yunnan Botanee Group Biotechnology Co,. LTD. The brand showcased at this "Olympics of Dermatology" for the second time.

Yunnan province sits in the subtropical zone and is the kingdom of medicinal plants. The plateau plant extracts here are more active and has higher medicinal value than those of other plants grown elsewhere. Winona firstly conducted fundamental research to explore the root cause and treatment target of sensitive skin. Then uses this natural biodiversity resource advantage to screen active ingredients that are effective to related treatment target. Finally put these verified ingredients into formulation and proceed clinical trial to study product's efficacy and safety, said Dr. Guo Zhenyu, President of the company.

Winona Anti-Sensitive Moisturizing Tolerance-Extreme Cream will greatly improve sensitive skin conditions. Its main active ingredients purslane, Yunnan's specialty PRINSEPIA UTILIS ROYLE OIL and mushroom glucan have the functions of relief, repair and moisturizing according to test results, Philippe Humbert, a professor at University of Franche-Comté, Besançon, said at the Winona Sensitive Skin International Summit held today. The tests proved Winona products' effectiveness and safety match global peers, Humbert added.

Winona also gets users' recognition in the market. It ranked 9th in terms of sales among facial skin care category in Tmall's Double Eleven shopping gala last year, ahead of its peers Vichy, La Roche-Posay and other foreign skin care brands.

China has a traditional Chinese medicine theory system and cultural basis in sensitive skin care, so people prefer to use plants'natural extracts to improve and care for the skin. Winona Cream chose functional natural active ingredients from special plants based on the understanding of sensitive skin mechanisms and treatment targets, said Liu Haiyang, a researcher at the Kunming Institute of Botany of CAS, at the summit today.

Li Chengxin, director of the dermatology department at Chinese PLA General Hospital, mentioned Winona's achievements in active ingredients screening, formulation and clinical effect observation based on sensitive skin care needs in his speech at the summit.

"Chinese brands represented by Winona have achieved fantastic results, met global advanced standard and got recognition from world's experts in the field," said Li.

Editor: Xu Wei