Patent ID: 8709502

Claim:
A cosmetic composition, comprising an extract of vanilla planifolia obtained by a method comprising: extracting ground material of vanilla planifolia with at least one solvent selected from water and C1-C4 alcohol, to obtain an extracted solution, filtering the extracted solution, eliminating the solvent from the extracted solution to obtain an oleoresin of vanilla, fractionating the oleoresin of vanilla with at least one solvent selected from water and C1-C4 alcohol, in order to purify the oleoresin, settling out and eliminating the solvent and recovering a liposoluble fraction of the oleoresin, subjecting the liposoluble fraction to molecular distillation at a temperature of between approximately 100° C. and 250° C. and a pressure of between approximately 0.1 and 0.001 mbar, and recovering the distillate, wherein the obtained extract of vanilla planifolia is devoid of vanillin.