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Estée Lauder Advanced Night Repair Intensive Recovery Ampoules

Estée Lauder Advanced Night Repair Intensive Recovery Ampoules Estée Lauder Advanced Night Repair Intensive Recovery Ampoules ingredients explained: Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Squalane, Aleurites Moluccana (Kukui) Seed Oil, Prunus Armeniaca (Apricot) Kernel

Estée Lauder Advanced Night Repair Intensive Recovery Ampoules Estée Lauder Advanced Night Repair Intensive Recovery Ampoules ingredients explained: Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Squalane, Aleurites Moluccana (Kukui) Seed Oil, Prunus Armeniaca (Apricot) Kernel Oil, Bisabolol, Garcinia Mangostana Peel Extract, Salicornia Herbacea Extract, Magnolia Officinalis Bark Extract, Salvia Hispanica Seed Extract, Anthemis Nobilis (Chamomile) Flower Extract, Rosmarinus Officinalis (Rosemary) Leaf Extract, Coffea Arabica (Coffee) Seed Extract, Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Oil, Camelina Sativa Seed Oil, Vaccinium Myrtillus Seed Oil, Tocopheryl Acetate, Cholesterol, Linoleic Acid, Tetrahexyldecyl Ascorbate Show all ingredients by function Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride emollient Squalane skin-identical ingredient, emollient 0, 1 goodie Aleurites Moluccana (Kukui) Seed Oil soothing, emollient Prunus Armeniaca (Apricot) Kernel Oil 0, 1-2 Bisabolol soothing Garcinia Mangostana Peel Extract Salicornia Herbacea Extract antioxidant, skin brightening, moisturizer/​humectant Magnolia Officinalis Bark Extract antimicrobial/​antibacterial Salvia Hispanica Seed Extract Anthemis Nobilis (Chamomile) Flower Extract soothing, perfuming Rosmarinus Officinalis (Rosemary) Leaf Extract antioxidant, soothing, antimicrobial/​antibacterial Coffea Arabica (Coffee) Seed Extract Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Oil 0, 0 Camelina Sativa Seed Oil Vaccinium Myrtillus Seed Oil Tocopheryl Acetate antioxidant Cholesterol Linoleic Acid skin-identical ingredient, emollient, surfactant/​cleansing Tetrahexyldecyl Ascorbate antioxidant, skin brightening 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. 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 moisturizer that makes your skin nice and smooth, without being heavy or greasy. Expand to read more Another advantage of squalane is that it is pretty much compatible with all skin types and skin conditions. It is excellent for acne-prone skin and safe to use even if you have fungi-related skin issues, like seborrhea or fungal acne. The unsaturated (with double bonds) and hence less stable version of Squalane is Squalene, you can read about it here >> Having such a cool name and coming from Hawaii how could this oil be not good? Well, it is good. It's absorbed excellently by the skin and is used traditionally by the Hawaiians to soothe sunburn and other inflammations. Research confirms this: it's shown to have anti-inflammatory, pain reducing, and wound healing properties. It's also a particularly rich source of moisturizing essential fatty acids linoleic and linolenic (about 42 and 32%) and it's not so rich in oleic acid - around 15% - that can be good even for acne prone skin. The emollient plant oil coming from the kernel (the seed of the seed) of the delicious apricot fruit. Like other plant oils, it contains antioxidant vitamin E and nourishing fatty acids (mostly oleic acid 54-74%, linoleic acid 12-35%). It's a nice general purpose emollient, has nourishing and moisturizing properties (as a high oleic oil it's ideal for dry skin types) and is quite easily absorbed into the skin. It's one of the active parts of Chamomile that contains about 30% of bisabolol. It's a clear oily fluid that is used in skincare as a nice anti-inflammatory and soothing ingredient. We don't have description for this ingredient yet. A plant extract coming from glasswort, a type of succulent that grows in the salt marshes along the coastline of South Korea. According to its Korean manufacturer, it contains good-for-the-skin things like betaine, amino acids and minerals and the extract can strengthen the skin barrier, increase skin recovery and provide deep moisturization effect. There is also an in-vitro (not done on real people but in the lab) study from 2009 that shows promisin what‑it‑does skin-identical ingredient | emollient irritancy, com. soothing | emollient antioxidant | skin brightening | moisturizer/humectant antimicrobial/antibacterial soothing | perfuming antioxidant | soothing | antimicrobial/antibacterial skin-identical ingredient | emollient | surfactant/cleansing antioxidant | skin brightening