Findley Retinol & Peptides Deep Sleep Eye Serum

Findley Retinol & Peptides Deep Sleep Eye Serum Findley Retinol & Peptides Deep Sleep Eye Serum ingredients explained: Purified Water (Aqua), Glyceryl Stearate, Retinol, Palmitoyl Oligopeptide, Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-7, Squalane, Tocopheryl Acetate (Vitamin E), Panthenol, PEG-12 Dimethicone, Cetyl Alcohol, Carbomer, Aminomethyl Propanol, Phenoxyethanol, Dehydroacetic Acid, Benzyl Alcohol Show all ingredients by function Purified Water (Aqua) solvent Glyceryl Stearate emollient, emulsifying 0, 1 Retinol cell-communicating ingredient superstar Palmitoyl Oligopeptide goodie Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-7 Squalane skin-identical ingredient, emollient Tocopheryl Acetate (Vitamin E) antioxidant 0, 0 Panthenol soothing, moisturizer/​humectant PEG-12 Dimethicone Cetyl Alcohol emollient, viscosity controlling 2, 2 Carbomer viscosity controlling Aminomethyl Propanol buffering Phenoxyethanol preservative Dehydroacetic Acid Benzyl Alcohol preservative, perfuming, solvent, viscosity controlling 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 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". Retinol (pure Vitamin A) is probably the most proven anti-aging ingredient available OTC It has to be converted in the skin to retinoic acid to work its magic Once converted, it has the same effect as all-trans-retinoic acid, aka tretinoin A generally accepted ballpark number is that retinol is 10-to-20 times less potent than retinoic acid It makes skin less wrinkled, smoother, firmer and tighter It might also be helpful for acne prone skin as it normalizes keratinization and makes the pores produce less sebum Possible side effects and irritation are also much less than with retinoic acid Do not use whilst pregnant A six amino acid peptide that is claimed to improve firmness and skin tone. Its amino acid sequence is Val-Gly-Val-Ala-Pro-Gly that is also called the "spring fragment" and is repeated six times in the important skin protein, elastin molecule. The manufacturer made a double-blind, one-month long clinical study on 10 women and found that twice a day application of 4% Biopeptide El improved skin firmness by 33% and skin tone by 20%. A four amino acid peptide with the amino sequence of glycine-glutamine-proline-arginine. It is attached to palmitic acid (a fatty acid) to increase oil solubility and skin penetration. It works by reducing the production of the signal molecule, interleukin-6 (IL-6) which promotes inflammation in the skin and less inflammation means slower degradation of important things (like collagen) that results in younger looking skin for a longer time. It works in synergy with its pal, Palmitoyl Tripeptide-1 in the famous Matrixyl 3000 complex. You can read some more about the famous duo here. It seems to us that squalane is in fashion and there is a re what‑it‑does emollient | emulsifying irritancy, com. skin-identical ingredient | emollient soothing | moisturizer/humectant emollient | viscosity controlling preservative | perfuming | solvent | viscosity controlling