Able Skincare Pro-peptide Lash Enhancing Serum

Able Skincare Pro-peptide Lash Enhancing Serum Able Skincare Pro-peptide Lash Enhancing Serum ingredients explained: Aqua (Water), 1,2-Hexanediol, Caprylyl Glycol, Hydroxyacetophenone, Trifolium Pratense (Clover) Flower Extract, Sodium Hyaluronate, Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract, Biotin, Plankton Extract, Pentylene Glycol, Propylene Glycol, Calcium Pantothenate, Butylene Glycol, Sodium Hydroxide, Ethylhexylglycerin, Tetrasodium Glutamate Diacetate, Dextran, Acetyl Tetrapeptide-3, Phenoxyethanol Show all ingredients by function Aqua (Water) solvent 1,2-Hexanediol Caprylyl Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, emollient Hydroxyacetophenone antioxidant, preservative Trifolium Pratense (Clover) Flower Extract Sodium Hyaluronate skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 goodie Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract antioxidant, soothing Biotin Plankton Extract Pentylene Glycol solvent, moisturizer/​humectant Propylene Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, solvent Calcium Pantothenate Butylene Glycol 0, 1 Sodium Hydroxide buffering Ethylhexylglycerin preservative Tetrasodium Glutamate Diacetate chelating Dextran viscosity controlling Acetyl Tetrapeptide-3 cell-communicating ingredient Phenoxyethanol Good old water, aka H2O. The most common skincare ingredient of all. You can usually find it right in the very first spot of the ingredient list, meaning it’s the biggest thing out of all the stuff that makes up the product. It’s mainly a solvent for ingredients that do not like to dissolve in oils but rather in water. Expand to read more Once inside the skin, it hydrates, but not from the outside - putting pure water on the skin (hello long baths!) is drying. One more thing: the water used in cosmetics is purified and deionized (it means that almost all of the mineral ions inside it is removed). Like this, the products can stay more stable over time. A really multi-functional helper ingredient that can do several things in a skincare product: it can bring a soft and pleasant feel to the formula, it can act as a humectant and emollient, it can be a solvent for some other ingredients (for example it can help to stabilize perfumes in watery products) and it can also help to disperse pigments more evenly in makeup products. And that is still not all: it can also boost the antimicrobial activity of preservatives. It’s a handy multi-tasking ingredient that gives the skin a nice, soft feel. At the same time, it also boosts the effectiveness of other preservatives, such as the nowadays super commonly used phenoxyethanol. The blend of these two (caprylyl glycol + phenoxyethanol) is called Optiphen, which not only helps to keep your cosmetics free from nasty things for a long time but also gives a good feel to the finished product. It's a popular duo. A handy multifunctional ingredient that works as a preservative booster, as well as an antioxidant and soothing agent. We don't have description for this ingredient yet. It’s the - sodium form - cousin of the famous NMF, hyaluronic acid (HA). If HA does not tell you anything we have a super detailed, geeky explanation about it here. The TL; DR version of HA is that it's a huge polymer (big molecule from repeated subunits) found in the skin that acts as a sponge helping the skin to hold onto water, being plump and elastic. HA is famous for its crazy water holding capacity as it can bind up to 1000 times its own weight in water. As far as skincare goes, sodium hyaluronate and hyaluronic acid are pretty much the same and the two names are used interchangeably. As cosmetic chemist kindofstephen writes on reddit "sodium hyaluronate disassociates into hyaluronic acid molecule and a sodium atom in solution". In spite of this, if you search for "hyaluronic acid vs sodium hyaluronate" you will find on multiple places that sodium hyaluronate is smaller and can penetrate the skin better. Chemically, this is definitely not true, as the two forms are almost the same, both are polymers and the subunits can be repeated in both forms as much as you like. (We also checked Prospector for sodium hyaluronate versions actually used in cosmetic products and found that the most common molecular weight was 1.5-1.8 million Da that a what‑it‑does moisturizer/humectant | emollient antioxidant | preservative skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. antioxidant | soothing solvent | moisturizer/humectant moisturizer/humectant | solvent