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Biologique Recherche L'Eauxygenate

Biologique Recherche L'Eauxygenate Biologique Recherche L'Eauxygenate ingredients explained: Actinidia Chinensis (Kiwi) Fruit Water, Citrus Aurantium Dulcis (Orange) Fruit Water, Water (Aqua), Butylene Glycol, Propylene Glycol, Perfluorodecalin, Leontopodium A

Biologique Recherche L'Eauxygenate Biologique Recherche L'Eauxygenate ingredients explained: Actinidia Chinensis (Kiwi) Fruit Water, Citrus Aurantium Dulcis (Orange) Fruit Water, Water (Aqua), Butylene Glycol, Propylene Glycol, Perfluorodecalin, Leontopodium Alpinum Flower/Leaf Extract, Hydrolyzed Silk, Actinidia Deliciosa (Kiwi) Fruit Extract, Citrus Aurantium Dulcis (Orange) Fruit Extract, Polyperfluoromethylisopropyl Ether, Poloxamer 188, Phenoxyethanol, Ethylhexylglycerin, Sodium Benzoate Actinidia Chinensis (Kiwi) Fruit Water Citrus Aurantium Dulcis (Orange) Fruit Water Water (Aqua) solvent Butylene Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, solvent 0, 1 Propylene Glycol 0, 0 Perfluorodecalin Leontopodium Alpinum Flower/Leaf Extract Hydrolyzed Silk moisturizer/​humectant Actinidia Deliciosa (Kiwi) Fruit Extract Citrus Aurantium Dulcis (Orange) Fruit Extract Polyperfluoromethylisopropyl Ether Poloxamer 188 emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing Phenoxyethanol preservative Ethylhexylglycerin Sodium Benzoate We don't have description for this ingredient yet. 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. 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) Perfluorodecalin is a fluorocarbon, a molecule that contains nothing else but carbon and fluorine. It's usually mixed with other fluorocarbons and goes by the trade name Fiflow. Fiflows are interesting materials: they are very stable (inert), heavy liquids that are neither water nor oil soluble but they create a third phase in emulsions. They can carry gasses, notably Oxygen, Nitrogen and Carbon Dioxide into the formula. The manufacturer claims that Fiflow blends can have all kinds of good effects on the skin: they can have wound healing, muscle relaxation, and dermal filling effect and they might also improve skin renewal and skin elasticity. We have to start by writing that there are about 900 citrus species in the world, and plenty of them are used to make different kinds of extracts used in cosmetics. This particular one, Citrus Aurantium Dulcis Fruit Extract is a very common ingredient, however, the species "Citrus Aurantium Dulcis" seem to exist only on ingredient lists and the real world calls this guy Citrus Sinensis or, you know, orange. To complicate matters further, there are lots of varieties and lots of extraction methods, so it is a bit hard to know what you are getting with this one, but we will try our best to summarize the possibilities. A very common scenario is that Citrus Aurantium Dulcis Frui what‑it‑does moisturizer/humectant | solvent irritancy, com. moisturizer/humectant emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing