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ADCOS Máscara facial syn-ake

ADCOS Máscara facial syn-ake ADCOS Máscara facial syn-ake ingredients explained: Aqua, Glycerin, Butylene Glycol, Propylene Glycol, Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Extract, Portulaca Oleracea Extract, Carbomer, Arginine, Polysorbate 80, Allantoin, Betaine, Sodium PCA, H

ADCOS Máscara facial syn-ake ADCOS Máscara facial syn-ake ingredients explained: Aqua, Glycerin, Butylene Glycol, Propylene Glycol, Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Extract, Portulaca Oleracea Extract, Carbomer, Arginine, Polysorbate 80, Allantoin, Betaine, Sodium PCA, Hamamelis Virginiana Water, Sodium Hyaluronate, Methylparaben, Disodium EDTA, Dipotassium Glycyrrhizate, Dipeptide Diaminobutyroyl Benzylamide Diacetate, Tocopheryl Acetate, Hydroxyethylcellulose, Propylparaben, Parfum, Citronellol Show all ingredients by function Composição / Ingredients Aqua solvent Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Butylene Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, solvent 0, 1 Propylene Glycol Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Extract soothing, emollient, moisturizer/​humectant goodie Portulaca Oleracea Extract soothing, antioxidant Carbomer viscosity controlling Arginine skin-identical ingredient Polysorbate 80 emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing Allantoin soothing Betaine moisturizer/​humectant Sodium PCA Hamamelis Virginiana Water Sodium Hyaluronate Methylparaben preservative Disodium EDTA chelating Dipotassium Glycyrrhizate soothing, moisturizer/​humectant Dipeptide Diaminobutyroyl Benzylamide Diacetate cell-communicating ingredient Tocopheryl Acetate antioxidant Hydroxyethylcellulose Propylparaben preservative, perfuming Parfum perfuming icky Citronellol 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 natural moisturizer that’s also in our skin A super common, safe, effective and cheap molecule used for more than 50 years Not only a simple moisturizer but knows much more: keeps the skin lipids between our skin cells in a healthy (liquid crystal) state, protects against irritation, helps to restore barrier Effective from as low as 3% with even more benefits for dry skin at higher concentrations up to 20-40% High-glycerin moisturizers are awesome for treating severely dry skin Butylene glycol, or let’s just call it BG, is a multi-tasking colorless, syrupy liquid. It’s a great pick for creating a nice feeling product. BG’s main job is usually to be a solvent for the other ingredients. Other tasks include helping the product to absorb faster and deeper into the skin (penetration enhancer), making the product spread nicely over the skin (slip agent), and attracting water (humectant) into the skin. It’s an ingredient whose safety hasn’t been questioned so far by anyone (at least not that we know about). BG is approved by Ecocert and is also used enthusiastically in natural products. BTW, it’s also a food additive. It's a helper ingredient that improves the freeze-thaw stability of products It's also a solvent, humectant and to some extent a penetration enhancer It has a bad reputation among natural cosmetics advocates but cosmetic scientists and toxicology experts do not agree (read more in the geeky details section) The extract coming from the juice containing leaves of the Aloe vera plant. It's usually a hydroglycolic extract (though oil extract for the lipid parts also exists) that has similar moisturizing, emollient and anti-inflammatory properties as the juice itself. We have written some more about aloe here. Portulaca Oleracea is a nice succulent with bright yellow flowers and edible nutritious vegetables. It's a famous plant in Korean traditional medicine to treat infection and irritated skin. Modern research confirms that it's loaded with skin-goodies: it's the richest green plant source of omega-3 fatty acids (α-linolenic acid), contains NMFs (polysaccharides and amino acids), vitamins (β-carotene), minerals, and antioxidants (yellow betaxanthins and reddish betacyanins). Thanks to all its beneficial components, Purslane Extract has several magic properties: it's a great anti-inflammatory a what‑it‑does skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. moisturizer/humectant | solvent soothing | emollient | moisturizer/humectant soothing | antioxidant emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing moisturizer/humectant soothing | moisturizer/humectant preservative | perfuming