APIS Lifting Peptide Tightening Eye Mask

APIS Lifting Peptide Tightening Eye Mask APIS Lifting Peptide Tightening Eye Mask ingredients explained: Aqua, Macadamia Ternifolia Seed Oil, Glycerin, Cetearyl Alcohol, Ceteareth-20, Acetyl Octapeptide-3, Sodium Hyaluronate, Coco-Caprylate/Caprate, Ubiquinone, Carbomer, Sodium Hydroxide, Benzyl Alcohol, Salicylic Acid, Sorbic Acid, Cocos Nucifera Oil, Gardenia Tahitensis Flower, PEG-8, Tocopherol, Ascorbyl Palmitate, Ascorbic Acid, Citric Acid Show all ingredients by function Aqua solvent Macadamia Ternifolia Seed Oil emollient goodie Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Cetearyl Alcohol emollient, viscosity controlling, emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing 1, 2 Ceteareth-20 emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing 3, 2 Acetyl Octapeptide-3 cell-communicating ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant Sodium Hyaluronate Coco-Caprylate/Caprate Ubiquinone antioxidant Carbomer viscosity controlling 0, 1 Sodium Hydroxide buffering Benzyl Alcohol preservative, perfuming, solvent, viscosity controlling Salicylic Acid exfoliant, anti-acne, soothing, preservative Sorbic Acid preservative Cocos Nucifera Oil emollient, perfuming 0, 4 Gardenia Tahitensis Flower PEG-8 moisturizer/​humectant, solvent Tocopherol 0-3, 0-3 Ascorbyl Palmitate 0, 2 icky Ascorbic Acid antioxidant, skin brightening, buffering Citric Acid 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. The golden yellow oil coming from the Macadamia nut, a native Australian nut. Similar to other plant oils, it's loaded with emollient and nourishing fatty acids. It's a high oleic acid oil (50-67% oleic acid and only 0-5% linoleic acid) that makes it very emollient and ideal for dry skin types (and less ideal for acne-prone skin). Its unique property is that it contains high amounts of a rare fatty acid called palmitoleic acid (12-25%) that give Macadamia oil a "cushiony" feel. It's also easily absorbed and makes the skin soft and supple. 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 An extremely common multitasker ingredient that gives your skin a nice soft feel (emollient) and gives body to creams and lotions. It also helps to stabilize oil-water mixes (emulsions), though it does not function as an emulsifier in itself. Its typical use level in most cream type formulas is 2-3%. It’s a so-called fatty alcohol, a mix of cetyl and stearyl alcohol, other two emollient fatty alcohols. Though chemically speaking, it is alcohol (as in, it has an -OH group in its molecule), its properties are totally different from the properties of low molecular weight or drying alcohols such as denat. alcohol. Fatty alcohols have a long oil-soluble (and thus emollient) tail part that makes them absolutely non-drying and non-irritating and are totally ok for the skin. A common functional ingredient that helps to keep the oil-loving and water-loving ingredients together (emulsifier), stabilizes and thickens the products. Chemically speaking, it is ethoxylated Cetearyl alcohol, meaning that some ethylene oxide is added to the fatty alcohol to increase the water-soluble part in the molecule. The result is that the mainly oil soluble, emollient fatty alcohol is converted to an emulsifier molecule that keeps oil and water mixed in creams. The number in the name of Ceteareth emulsifiers refers to what‑it‑does skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. emollient | viscosity controlling | emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing cell-communicating ingredient | moisturizer/humectant preservative | perfuming | solvent | viscosity controlling exfoliant | anti-acne | soothing | preservative emollient | perfuming moisturizer/humectant | solvent antioxidant | skin brightening | buffering