BioBare 3X Action Cucumber Eye Cream - With Hyaluronic Acid, Squalane, Peptides & Vitamins E & A

BioBare 3X Action Cucumber Eye Cream - With Hyaluronic Acid, Squalane, Peptides & Vitamins E & A BioBare 3X Action Cucumber Eye Cream - With Hyaluronic Acid, Squalane, Peptides & Vitamins E & A ingredients explained: Water (Aqua), Carthamus Tinctorius Seed Oil, Polyacrylate-13, Glycerin, Propylene Glycol, Polyisobutene, Squalane, Sodium Hyaluronate, Acetyl Hexapeptide-8, Cucumis Sativus(Cucumber) Fruit Extract, Retinyl Palmitate, Tocopherol, Palmitoyl Tripeptide-1, Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-7, Butylene Glycol, Polysorbate 20, Acetyl Octapeptide-3, Caprylyl Glycol, Potassium Sorbate, Phenoxyethanol, Ethylhexylglycerin, Fragrance, Yellow 5(Cl 19140), Blue 1(Cl 42090) Show all ingredients by function Water (Aqua) solvent Carthamus Tinctorius Seed Oil antioxidant, emollient 0, 0-2 goodie Polyacrylate-13 Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Propylene Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, solvent Polyisobutene viscosity controlling Squalane skin-identical ingredient, emollient 0, 1 Sodium Hyaluronate Acetyl Hexapeptide-8 cell-communicating ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant Cucumis Sativus(Cucumber) Fruit Extract soothing, emollient Retinyl Palmitate cell-communicating ingredient 1-3, 1-3 Tocopherol antioxidant 0-3, 0-3 Palmitoyl Tripeptide-1 Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-7 Butylene Glycol Polysorbate 20 emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing Acetyl Octapeptide-3 Caprylyl Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, emollient Potassium Sorbate preservative Phenoxyethanol Ethylhexylglycerin Fragrance perfuming icky Yellow 5(Cl 19140) colorant Blue 1(Cl 42090) 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 oil coming from the seeds of the yellow flowered safflower plant. Similar to other plant oils, it's loaded with nourishing and moisturizing fatty acids: it's a high linoleic acid oil (70%) and has only smaller amounts of oleic acid (11%) (this might be great for acne-prone skin). It also contains antioxidant vitamin E (44mg/100g alpha-tocopherol). A helper ingredient that functions as a film-forming polymer (big molecule from repeated subunits). It usually comes to the formula as part of a thickener-emulsifier trio paired with Polyisobutene and Polysorbate 20. The three togeather have excellent thickening properties with remarkable emulsifying-stabilising abilities. They also have a nice silicone feel with glide-on spreading. 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 polymer (big molecule from repeated subunits) that's used as a gloss improver for lipsticks and lipglosses. Its stickiness also helps lip products to stay on longer. Combined with polyacrylate-13 and polysorbate 20, it forms a very effective tickener-emulsifier trio. It seems to us that squalane is in fashion and there is a reason for it. Chemically speaking, it is a saturated (no double bonds) hydrocarbon (a molecule consisting only of carbon and hydrogen), meaning that it's a nice and stable oily liquid with a long shelf life. It occurs naturally in certain fish and plant oils (e.g. olive), and in the sebum (the oily stuff our skin produces) of the human skin. As f.c. puts it in his awesome blog post, squalane's main things are "emolliency, surface occlusion, and TEWL prevention all with ext what‑it‑does antioxidant | emollient irritancy, com. skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant moisturizer/humectant | solvent skin-identical ingredient | emollient cell-communicating ingredient | moisturizer/humectant soothing | emollient emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing moisturizer/humectant | emollient