Conscious Chemist 10% Vitamin C Serum | Radiance Booster | Peptide Complex & Ferulic Acid

Conscious Chemist 10% Vitamin C Serum | Radiance Booster | Peptide Complex & Ferulic Acid Conscious Chemist 10% Vitamin C Serum | Radiance Booster | Peptide Complex & Ferulic Acid ingredients explained: Aqua, Propylene Glycol, 3-O-Ethyl Ascorbic Acid, Sodium Levulinate, Potassium Sorbate, Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer, PEG-40 Hydrogenated Castor Oil, Allantoin, Glycerin, Butylene Glycol, Arctostaphylos Uva-Ursi (Bearberry) Leaf Extract, Rubus Indicus (Rasp Berry) Extract, Daucus Carota (Carrot) Seed Extract, Betaine, Ferulic Acid, Carbomer, Polysorbate 20, Palmitoyl Tripeptide-1, Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-7, Scutellaria Baicalensis (Chinese Skullcap) Root Extract, Paeonia Suffruticosa (Tree Peony) Root Extract, Saxifraga Sarmentosa Extract, Alpha Tocopherol, Sodium Hyaluronate, Sodium Hydroxide Show all ingredients by function Aqua solvent Propylene Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, solvent 0, 0 3-O-Ethyl Ascorbic Acid antioxidant, skin brightening goodie Sodium Levulinate Potassium Sorbate preservative Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer viscosity controlling PEG-40 Hydrogenated Castor Oil emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing Allantoin soothing Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant superstar Butylene Glycol 0, 1 Arctostaphylos Uva-Ursi (Bearberry) Leaf Extract Rubus Indicus (Rasp Berry) Extract Daucus Carota (Carrot) Seed Extract emollient Betaine moisturizer/​humectant Ferulic Acid antioxidant, antimicrobial/​antibacterial Carbomer Polysorbate 20 Palmitoyl Tripeptide-1 cell-communicating ingredient Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-7 Scutellaria Baicalensis (Chinese Skullcap) Root Extract soothing, antioxidant, antimicrobial/​antibacterial, moisturizer/​humectant Paeonia Suffruticosa (Tree Peony) Root Extract Saxifraga Sarmentosa Extract Alpha Tocopherol antioxidant 0-3, 0-3 Sodium Hyaluronate Sodium Hydroxide buffering 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'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 very stable and promising form of the skincare superstar, Vitamin C. If you do not know why Vitamin C is such a big deal in skin care, you can catch up here. In short, Vitamin C has three proven magic abilities: antioxidant, collagen booster, and skin brightener. The problem, though, is that it's very unstable, turns brown and becomes ineffective in no time (after a few month) and the cosmetics industry is trying to come up with smart derivatives that are stable and have the magic properties of pure Vitamin C. Ethyl Ascorbic Acid or EAC for short is an "etherified derivative of ascorbic acid" that consists of vitamin C and an ethyl group bound to the third carbon position. This makes Vitamin C very stable and soluble in both water and oil. However, for a Vitamin C derivative to work it's not enough just to be stable, they also have to be absorbed into the skin and be converted there to pure Vitamin C. We have good news regarding the absorption: on top of manufacturer claims, there is some data (animal study) demonstrating in can get into the skin, and it seems to be better at it than Ascorbyl Glucoside, another vitamin C derivative. Regarding conversion, we can cite only a manufacturers claim saying that EAC is metabolized in the skin into pure ascorbic acid (and the ascorbic acid content of EAC is very high - 86,4% - compared to the usual 50-60% Vitamin C content of other derivatives). As for the three magic abilities of Vitamin C, we again mostly have only the manufacturer's claims, but at least those are very promising. EAC seems to have both an antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effect, and it's claimed to be able to boost the skin's collagen production. The strong point of EAC though is skin brightening. On top of manufacturer claims, there is also clinical in-vivo (tested on real people) data showing that 2% EAC can improve skin tone and whiten the skin. Overall, Ethyl Ascorbic Acid is a very promising but not a fully proven Vitamin C derivative. It's worth a try, especially if you are aft what‑it‑does moisturizer/humectant | solvent irritancy, com. antioxidant | skin brightening emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant moisturizer/humectant antioxidant | antimicrobial/antibacterial soothing | antioxidant | antimicrobial/antibacterial | moisturizer/humectant