Element Eight O2 Peptide Firm Perfect Cream

Element Eight O2 Peptide Firm Perfect Cream Element Eight O2 Peptide Firm Perfect Cream ingredients explained: Aqua, Perfluorohexane, Glyceryl Stearate SE, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Stearic Acid, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea Butter), Cetyl Alcohol, Coco-Caprylate/Caprate, Glycerin, Pentylene Glycol, Tranexamic Acid, Camellia Oleifera (Camellia) Seed Oil, Perfluorodecalin, Acetyl Hexapeptide-8, Pentapeptide-18, Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-7, Palmitoyl Tripeptide-1, Sodium Hyaluronate, Tetrahexyldecyl Ascorbate, Perfluorodimethylcyclohexane, Tocopheryl Acetate, Pentadecalactone, Dipropylene Glycol, Pentafluoropropane, Perfluoroperhydrophenanthrene, Citric Acid, Tetrasodium Iminodisuccinate, Phenoxyethanol Show all ingredients by function Aqua solvent Perfluorohexane Glyceryl Stearate SE emulsifying 2, 3 Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride emollient Stearic Acid emollient, viscosity controlling 0, 2-3 Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea Butter) goodie Cetyl Alcohol 2, 2 Coco-Caprylate/Caprate Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Pentylene Glycol solvent, moisturizer/​humectant Tranexamic Acid skin brightening, soothing Camellia Oleifera (Camellia) Seed Oil Perfluorodecalin Acetyl Hexapeptide-8 cell-communicating ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant Pentapeptide-18 cell-communicating ingredient Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-7 Palmitoyl Tripeptide-1 Sodium Hyaluronate Tetrahexyldecyl Ascorbate antioxidant, skin brightening Perfluorodimethylcyclohexane Tocopheryl Acetate antioxidant Pentadecalactone perfuming Dipropylene Glycol Pentafluoropropane Perfluoroperhydrophenanthrene Citric Acid buffering Tetrasodium Iminodisuccinate chelating Phenoxyethanol preservative 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 fluorocarbon that's like a hydrocarbon but instead of hydrogen and carbon, it only contains fluorine and carbon. It's usually mixed with other fluorocarbons and goes by the trade name Fiflow. You can read more about what it might do on the skin at its fluorocarbon buddy, Perfluorodecalin. An oily kind of ingredient that can magically blend with water all by itself. This is called self-emulsifying and SE in its name stands for that. The difference between "normal" Glyceryl Stearate and this guy is that the SE grade contains a small amount of water-loving soap molecules, such as sodium stearate. This increases Glyceryl Stearate's affinity for water and gives it stronger emulsifying abilities. Other than that, it’s a nice emollient that gives a smooth and soft appearance to the skin. You can read some more at Glyceryl Stearate >> A super common emollient that makes your skin feel nice and smooth. It comes from coconut oil and glycerin, it’s light-textured, clear, odorless and non-greasy. It’s a nice ingredient that just feels good on the skin, is super well tolerated by every skin type and easy to formulate with. No wonder it’s popular. A common multi-tasker fatty acid. It makes your skin feel nice and smooth (emollient), gives body to cream type products and helps to stabilize water and oil mixes (aka emulsions). Unless you live under a rock you must have heard about shea butter. It's probably the most hyped up natural butter in skincare today. It comes from the seeds of African Shea or Karite Trees and used as a magic moisturizer and emollient. But it's not only a simple emollient, it regenerates and soothes the skin, protects it from external factors (such as UV rays or wind) and is also rich in antioxidants (among others vitamin A, E, F, quercetin and epigallocatechin gallate). If you are looking for rich emollient benefits + more, shea is hard to beat. A so-called fatty (the good, non-drying kind of) alcohol that does all kinds of things in a skincare product: it makes your skin feel smooth and nice (emollient), helps to thicken up products and also helps water and oil to blend (emulsifier). Can be derived from coconut or palm kernel oil. A light emollient ester (C8-10 fatty acids connected to C12-18 fatty alcohols) that absorbs quickly and leaves a dry but silky finish on the skin. In terms of what‑it‑does irritancy, com. emollient | viscosity controlling skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant solvent | moisturizer/humectant skin brightening | soothing cell-communicating ingredient | moisturizer/humectant antioxidant | skin brightening