Patent ID: 6958156

Claim:
A method of providing skin care products, comprising: providing a topical formulation that includes a compound having the structure: wherein R8, R7, R6, R5 and R4′ are independently selected from the group consisting of H, OH, OMe, glucose, O-glucose, O-acetyl glucose, O-malonyl glucose, ZCOO— and ZPO4—; and with the proviso that at least one of R8, R7, R6, R5 and R4′ is ZCOO— or ZPO4—, where Z is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, a straight or branched alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, alkoxyalkyl, alkylthioalkyl, or aminoalkyl, a substituted or non-substituted cycloalkyl, an aryl, aralkyl, or alkylaryl, and a substituted cycloalkyl where at least one ring contains one or more of a nitrogen, sulfur, oxygen, phosphorous or silicon heteroatom in the at least one ring.