If you stay well versed in the ever-evolving buzz ingredients in skincare, you may have noticed an unusual but familiar fungus popping up everywhere you look.
Mushrooms have been tipped as one of this year’s biggest trends for their superfood and adaptogenic powers. At Cult Beauty alone, searches for mushroom skincare are up 320 per cent year on year, while snow mushroom is up 243 per cent and reishi - nicknamed the ‘mushroom of immortality’ in Ancient Chinese literature - increased by a whopping 3000 per cent. This may be in part due to the Netflix documentary Fantastic Fungi that put the spore on the centre stage and revealed its magical properties - but they have actually been used in Eastern cultures for centuries due to the immunity-boosting action.
