BIOSSANCE Squalane + Firm And Lift Dual Serum

BIOSSANCE Squalane + Firm And Lift Dual Serum BIOSSANCE Squalane + Firm And Lift Dual Serum ingredients explained: Water/Aqua/Eau, Squalane*, Glycerin, Sodium Benzoate, Sodium Hyaluronate, Ectoin, Potassium Sorbate, Phenoxyethanol, Bisabolol, Propanediol, Citric Acid, Sodium Gluconate, Leucojum Aestivum Bulb Extract, Acmella Oleracea Extract, Hippophae Rhamnoides Fruit Oil, Melia Azadirachta Extract, Moringa Oleifera Seed Oil Show all ingredients by function Water/Aqua/Eau solvent Squalane* skin-identical ingredient, emollient 0, 1 goodie Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Sodium Benzoate preservative Sodium Hyaluronate Ectoin antioxidant, soothing, moisturizer/​humectant Potassium Sorbate Phenoxyethanol Bisabolol soothing Propanediol solvent, moisturizer/​humectant Citric Acid buffering Sodium Gluconate chelating, moisturizer/​humectant Leucojum Aestivum Bulb Extract Acmella Oleracea Extract Hippophae Rhamnoides Fruit Oil antioxidant, emollient Melia Azadirachta Extract Moringa Oleifera Seed Oil emollient 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. 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 extreme cosmetic elegance". In other words, it's a superb moisturizer that makes your skin nice and smooth, without being heavy or greasy. Another advantage of squalane is that it is pretty much compatible with all skin types and skin conditions. It is excellent for acne-prone skin and safe to use even if you have fungi-related skin issues, like seborrhea or fungal acne. The unsaturated (with double bonds) and hence less stable version of Squalane is Squalene, you can read about it here >> 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 A helper ingredient that helps to make the products stay nice longer, aka preservative. It works mainly against fungi. It’s pH dependent and works best at acidic pH levels (3-5). It’s not strong enough to be used in itself so it’s always combined with something else, often with potassium sorbate. It’s the - sodium form - cousin of the famous NMF, hyaluronic acid (HA). If HA does not tell you anything we have a super detailed, geeky explanation about it here. The TL; DR version of HA is that it's a huge polymer (big molecule from repeated subunits) found in the skin that acts as a sponge helping the skin to hold onto water, being plump and elastic. HA is famous for its crazy water holding capacity as it can bind up to 1000 times its own weight in water. As far as skincare goes, sodium hyaluronate and hyaluronic acid what‑it‑does skin-identical ingredient | emollient irritancy, com. skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant antioxidant | soothing | moisturizer/humectant solvent | moisturizer/humectant chelating | moisturizer/humectant antioxidant | emollient