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ART&FACT. Vitamin C + Complex Of Peptides 4%

ART&FACT. Vitamin C + Complex Of Peptides 4% ART&FACT. Vitamin C + Complex Of Peptides 4% ingredients explained: Aqua, Glycerin, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter, Vitis Vinifera (Grape) Seed Oil, Cetearyl Alcohol, Glyceryl Stearate, Cocos Nucifera (Coconut)

ART&FACT. Vitamin C + Complex Of Peptides 4% ART&FACT. Vitamin C + Complex Of Peptides 4% ingredients explained: Aqua, Glycerin, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter, Vitis Vinifera (Grape) Seed Oil, Cetearyl Alcohol, Glyceryl Stearate, Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Oil, Dicaprylyl Ether, Lactococcus Ferment Lysate, Hydroxyethyl Urea, Aminobutyric Acid, Triglyceride, Linoleic Acid, Triglyceride, Linolenic Acid, 3-O-Ethyl Ascorbic Acid, Sodium Hyaluronate, Tocopheryl Acetate, Retinyl Acetate, Palmitoyl Tripeptide-1, Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-7, Sodium Stearoyl Lactylate, Sodium Lauroyl Glutamate, Butylene Glycol, Isopropyl Myristate, Carbomer, Sodium Chloride, Polysorbate 20, Sodium Hydroxide, BHT, Sodium Benzoate, Ethylhexylglycerin, Phenoxyethanol Show all ingredients by function Aqua solvent Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter emollient goodie Vitis Vinifera (Grape) Seed Oil antioxidant, emollient Cetearyl Alcohol emollient, viscosity controlling, emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing 1, 2 Glyceryl Stearate emollient, emulsifying 0, 1 Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Oil emollient, perfuming 0, 4 Dicaprylyl Ether emollient, solvent Lactococcus Ferment Lysate Hydroxyethyl Urea moisturizer/​humectant Aminobutyric Acid Triglyceride Linoleic Acid skin-identical ingredient, emollient, surfactant/​cleansing Linolenic Acid skin-identical ingredient, emollient, surfactant/​cleansing, perfuming 3-O-Ethyl Ascorbic Acid antioxidant, skin brightening Sodium Hyaluronate Tocopheryl Acetate antioxidant Retinyl Acetate cell-communicating ingredient Palmitoyl Tripeptide-1 Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-7 Sodium Stearoyl Lactylate emulsifying Sodium Lauroyl Glutamate surfactant/​cleansing Butylene Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, solvent Isopropyl Myristate 3, 3-5 Carbomer viscosity controlling Sodium Chloride Polysorbate 20 emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing Sodium Hydroxide buffering BHT antioxidant, preservative Sodium Benzoate preservative Ethylhexylglycerin 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 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 Unless you live under a rock you must have heard about shea butter. It's probably the most hyped up natural butter in skincare today. It comes from the seeds of African Shea or Karite Trees and used as a magic moisturizer and emollient. But it's not only a simple emollient, it regenerates and soothes the skin, protects it from external factors (such as UV rays or wind) and is also rich in antioxidants (among others vitamin A, E, F, quercetin and epigallocatechin gallate). If you are looking for rich emollient benefits + more, shea is hard to beat. A goodie plant oil coming from the polyphenol-rich seeds of the grape. It's a light emollient oil that makes your skin feel smooth and nice and also contains a bunch of good-for-the-skin stuff. It's a great source of antioxidant polyphenols, barrier repair fatty acid linoleic acid (about 55-77%, while oleic acid is about 12-27%) and antioxidant, skin-protectant vitamin E. 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 super common, waxy, white, solid stuff that helps water and oil to mix together, gives body to creams and leaves the skin feeling soft and smooth. what‑it‑does skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. antioxidant | emollient emollient | viscosity controlling | emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing emollient | emulsifying emollient | perfuming emollient | solvent moisturizer/humectant skin-identical ingredient | emollient | surfactant/cleansing skin-identical ingredient | emollient | surfactant/cleansing | perfuming antioxidant | skin brightening surfactant/cleansing moisturizer/humectant | solvent emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing antioxidant | preservative