Elyn’s Lab Peptide Cocktail

Elyn’s Lab Peptide Cocktail Elyn’s Lab Peptide Cocktail ingredients explained: Aqua, Glycerin, Stearic Acid, Dicaprylyl Carbonate, Glyceryl Stearate, C12-15 Alkyl Benzoate, Squalane, Cetearyl Olivate, Sorbitan Olivate, Dipeptide Diaminobutyroyl Benzylamide Diacetate, Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract, Tocopherol, Ubiquinone, Panthenol, Allantoin, Lecithin, Sphingolipids, Bisabolol, Sodium Hyaluronate, Tocopheryl Acetate, Disodium EDTA, Ethylhexylglycerin, Punica Granatum Fruit Extract, Potassium Sorbate, Sodium Benzoate, Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice, Citric Acid, Phenoxyethanol Show all ingredients by function Aqua solvent Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Stearic Acid emollient, viscosity controlling 0, 2-3 Dicaprylyl Carbonate emollient Glyceryl Stearate emollient, emulsifying 0, 1 C12-15 Alkyl Benzoate emollient, antimicrobial/​antibacterial Squalane skin-identical ingredient, emollient goodie Cetearyl Olivate emulsifying Sorbitan Olivate Dipeptide Diaminobutyroyl Benzylamide Diacetate cell-communicating ingredient Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract antioxidant, soothing Tocopherol antioxidant 0-3, 0-3 Ubiquinone Panthenol soothing, moisturizer/​humectant Allantoin soothing Lecithin Sphingolipids Bisabolol Sodium Hyaluronate Tocopheryl Acetate Disodium EDTA chelating Ethylhexylglycerin preservative Punica Granatum Fruit Extract Potassium Sorbate Sodium Benzoate Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice Citric Acid buffering Phenoxyethanol 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 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 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). A clear, colorless, almost odorless oil that spreads nicely and easily and gives a velvet dry skin feel. It is good friends with sunscreen agents and helps to solubilize them. Also, it makes sunscreens feel lighter and spread easier. A super common, waxy, white, solid stuff that helps water and oil to mix together, gives body to creams and leaves the skin feeling soft and smooth. Chemically speaking, it is the attachment of a glycerin molecule to the fatty acid called stearic acid. It can be produced from most vegetable oils (in oils three fatty acid molecules are attached to glycerin instead of just one like here) in a pretty simple, "green" process that is similar to soap making. It's readily biodegradable. It also occurs naturally in our body and is used as a food additive. As cosmetic chemist Colins writes it, "its safety really is beyond any doubt". An often used emollient with a light and silky feel. It's very mild to both skin and eyes and spreads nicely and easily. It's often used in sunscreens as it's also an excellent solvent for sunscreen agents. 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 moisturiz what‑it‑does skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. emollient | viscosity controlling emollient | emulsifying emollient | antimicrobial/antibacterial skin-identical ingredient | emollient antioxidant | soothing soothing | moisturizer/humectant