Azure Retinol & Peptides Lifting Eye Serum

Azure Retinol & Peptides Lifting Eye Serum Azure Retinol & Peptides Lifting Eye Serum ingredients explained: Water, Glycerin, Propylene Glycol, Betaine, Soluble Collagen, Retinol, Copper Tripeptide-1, Acetyl Hexapeptide-8, Palmitoyl Pentapeptide-4, Sodium Hyaluronate, Panthenol, Macadamia Ternifolia Seed Oil, Brassica Campestris (Rapeseed) Sterols, Ceteth-3, Ceteth-5, Tocopheryl Acetate, Potassium Cetyl Phosphate, Beta-Glucan, Hydroxyethyl Urea, Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Extract, Butylene Glycol, Hydrogenated Lecithin, Sodium Ascorbyl Phosphate, Polyglyceryl-10 Oleate, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Cholesterol, Polysorbate 20, PEG-60 Hydrogenated Castor Oil, Glyceryl Acrylate/Acrylic Acid Copolymer, Xanthan Gum, Alcohol, Ethylhexylglycerin, 1,2-Hexanediol, Phenoxyethanol, Fragrance Show all ingredients by function Water solvent Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Propylene Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, solvent Betaine moisturizer/​humectant goodie Soluble Collagen Retinol cell-communicating ingredient Copper Tripeptide-1 cell-communicating ingredient, soothing, antioxidant Acetyl Hexapeptide-8 cell-communicating ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant Palmitoyl Pentapeptide-4 Sodium Hyaluronate Panthenol soothing, moisturizer/​humectant Macadamia Ternifolia Seed Oil emollient Brassica Campestris (Rapeseed) Sterols Ceteth-3 emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing Ceteth-5 Tocopheryl Acetate antioxidant Potassium Cetyl Phosphate Beta-Glucan Hydroxyethyl Urea Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Extract soothing, emollient, moisturizer/​humectant Butylene Glycol 0, 1 Hydrogenated Lecithin emollient, emulsifying Sodium Ascorbyl Phosphate antioxidant, anti-acne Polyglyceryl-10 Oleate Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride Cholesterol skin-identical ingredient, emollient Polysorbate 20 PEG-60 Hydrogenated Castor Oil Glyceryl Acrylate/Acrylic Acid Copolymer moisturizer/​humectant, viscosity controlling Xanthan Gum viscosity controlling Alcohol antimicrobial/​antibacterial, solvent, viscosity controlling icky Ethylhexylglycerin preservative 1,2-Hexanediol Phenoxyethanol Fragrance perfuming 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 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) A sugar beet-derived amino acid derivative with nice skin protection and moisturization properties. Betaine's special thing is being an osmolyte, a molecule that helps to control cell-water balance. It is also a natural osmoprotectant, meaning that it attracts water away from the protein surface and thus protects them from denaturation and increases their thermodynamic stability. It also gives sensorial benefits to the formula and when used in cleansers, it helps to make them milder and gentler. Soluble Collagen refers to the big, natural collagen molecules mostly extracted from fish or bovine skin. Spotting collagen on the ingredient list, you might think that, aha, this must be there to supplement the collagen content of our own skin, but you have to know that collagen is a huge-huge molecule that cannot absorb to the middle layer of the skin where collagen is and even if it could, it cannot just magically go the right places to become part of the skin's own collagen network. Putting collagen on your skin for anti-aging purposes is like throwing tent poles onto a ramshackle tent and expecting the tent to magically become nice and firm again. The strong point of collagen is being a large molecule with tremendous water binding capacity, i.e. an amazing humectant and moisturizer. It produces a water-rich film on the skin giving the stratum corneum (the uppermost layer of the skin) great hydration, making it nice and smooth and reducing trans-epidermal-water loss (the process of water evaporating out of your skin). It is a what‑it‑does skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. moisturizer/humectant | solvent moisturizer/humectant cell-communicating ingredient | soothing | antioxidant cell-communicating ingredient | moisturizer/humectant soothing | moisturizer/humectant emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing soothing | emollient | moisturizer/humectant emollient | emulsifying antioxidant | anti-acne skin-identical ingredient | emollient moisturizer/humectant | viscosity controlling antimicrobial/antibacterial | solvent | viscosity controlling