Conscious Chemist Brightening & Firming Serum | 10% Vitamin C, Peptides & Anti-oxidants

Conscious Chemist Brightening & Firming Serum | 10% Vitamin C, Peptides & Anti-oxidants Conscious Chemist Brightening & Firming Serum | 10% Vitamin C, Peptides & Anti-oxidants ingredients explained: Aqua, 3-O-Ethyl Ascorbic Acid, Aloe Vera Leaf Ext.^, Glycerine, Carrot Seed Oil, Natural Betaine*, Pomegranate Oil, Cetearyl Olivate, Sorbitan Olivate, Vitamin E, Isopropyl Myristate, Benzyl Alcohol, Ethylhexylglycerin, Tocopherol, Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-7, Palmitoyl Tripeptide-1, Sodium Hyaluronate, Xanthan Gum, Sodium Hydroxide, Ferulic Acid, Glutathione, Sodium Gluconate Show all ingredients by function Aqua solvent 3-O-Ethyl Ascorbic Acid antioxidant, skin brightening goodie Aloe Vera Leaf Ext.^ soothing, emollient, moisturizer/​humectant Glycerine skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Carrot Seed Oil emollient Natural Betaine* Pomegranate Oil antioxidant, emollient Cetearyl Olivate emulsifying Sorbitan Olivate Vitamin E antioxidant 0-3, 0-3 Isopropyl Myristate emollient, perfuming 3, 3-5 Benzyl Alcohol preservative, perfuming, solvent, viscosity controlling Ethylhexylglycerin preservative Tocopherol Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-7 cell-communicating ingredient Palmitoyl Tripeptide-1 Sodium Hyaluronate Xanthan Gum viscosity controlling Sodium Hydroxide buffering Ferulic Acid antioxidant, antimicrobial/​antibacterial Glutathione Sodium Gluconate chelating, moisturizer/​humectant 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 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 after Vitamin C's skin-brightening effects. The extract coming from the juice containing leaves of the Aloe vera plant. It's usually a hydroglycolic extract (though oil extract for the lipid parts also exists) that has similar moisturizing, emollient and anti-inflammatory properties as the juice itself. We have what‑it‑does antioxidant | skin brightening soothing | emollient | moisturizer/humectant skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. antioxidant | emollient emollient | perfuming preservative | perfuming | solvent | viscosity controlling antioxidant | antimicrobial/antibacterial chelating | moisturizer/humectant