Environ Youth + Tri-Peptide Complex + Avance Elixir

Environ Youth + Tri-Peptide Complex + Avance Elixir Environ Youth + Tri-Peptide Complex + Avance Elixir ingredients explained: Aqua, Glycerin, Butylene Glycol, Xanthan Gum, Astragalus Membranaceus Root Extract, Atractylodes Macrocephala Root Extract, Bupleurum Falcatum Root Extract, Polysorbate 20, Palmitoyl Tripeptide-37, Pseudoalteromonas Ferment Extract, Hydrolyzed Wheat Protein, Hydroxypropyl Cyclodextrin, Palmitoyl Tripeptide-38, Sodium Lactate, Carbomer, Tripeptide-1, Caprylyl Glycol, Phenoxyethanol, EDTA, Triethanolamine Show all ingredients by function Aqua solvent Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Butylene Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, solvent 0, 1 Xanthan Gum viscosity controlling Astragalus Membranaceus Root Extract antioxidant, emollient goodie Atractylodes Macrocephala Root Extract Bupleurum Falcatum Root Extract Polysorbate 20 emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing Palmitoyl Tripeptide-37 Pseudoalteromonas Ferment Extract soothing, moisturizer/​humectant Hydrolyzed Wheat Protein moisturizer/​humectant Hydroxypropyl Cyclodextrin Palmitoyl Tripeptide-38 cell-communicating ingredient Sodium Lactate buffering, moisturizer/​humectant Carbomer Tripeptide-1 Caprylyl Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, emollient Phenoxyethanol preservative EDTA chelating Triethanolamine buffering 0, 2 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 Butylene glycol, or let’s just call it BG, is a multi-tasking colorless, syrupy liquid. It’s a great pick for creating a nice feeling product. BG’s main job is usually to be a solvent for the other ingredients. Other tasks include helping the product to absorb faster and deeper into the skin (penetration enhancer), making the product spread nicely over the skin (slip agent), and attracting water (humectant) into the skin. It’s an ingredient whose safety hasn’t been questioned so far by anyone (at least not that we know about). BG is approved by Ecocert and is also used enthusiastically in natural products. BTW, it’s also a food additive. It's one of the most commonly used thickeners and emulsion stabilizers. If the product is too runny, a little xanthan gum will make it more gel-like. Used alone, it can make the formula sticky and it is a good team player so it is usually combined with other thickeners and so-called rheology modifiers (helper ingredients that adjust the flow and thus the feel of the formula). The typical use level of Xantha Gum is below 1%, it is usually in the 0.1-0.5% range. Btw, Xanthan gum is all natural, a chain of sugar molecules (polysaccharide) produced from individual sugar molecules (glucose and sucrose) via fermentation. It’s approved by Ecocert and also used in the food industry (E415). Astragalus Membranaceus, or Huangqi as the Chinese call it, is one of their most important medicinal herbs that is traditionally used to strengthen "qi", the body’s life force. It has a bunch of magic abilities including tonic, liver-protecting, immunomodulating, antihyperglycemic, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, and antiviral properties. Modern research does prove that Huangqi is a valuable medicinal herb and contains plenty of bioactive compounds such as saponins, flavonoids, and polysaccharides. As for skincar what‑it‑does skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. moisturizer/humectant | solvent antioxidant | emollient emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing soothing | moisturizer/humectant moisturizer/humectant buffering | moisturizer/humectant moisturizer/humectant | emollient