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freck Lashrocket Mascara freck Lashrocket Mascara ingredients explained: Aqua (Water, Eau), Butylene Glycol, Glycerin, Vp/Eicosene Copolymer, Stearic Acid, Behenyl Behenate, Copernicia Cerifera Cera (Copernicia Cerifera (Carnauba) Wax, Cire De Carnauba), Glyce

freck Lashrocket Mascara freck Lashrocket Mascara ingredients explained: Aqua (Water, Eau), Butylene Glycol, Glycerin, Vp/Eicosene Copolymer, Stearic Acid, Behenyl Behenate, Copernicia Cerifera Cera (Copernicia Cerifera (Carnauba) Wax, Cire De Carnauba), Glyceryl Stearate, Polyhydroxystearic Acid, Polyisobutene, Candelilla Cera (Euphorbia Cerifera (Candelilla) Wax, Cire De Candelilla), Panthenol, Biotinoyl Tripeptide-1, Acetyl Tetrapeptide-3, Trifolium Pratense (Clover) Flower Extract, Sodium Hyaluronate, Tocopheryl Acetate, Acacia Senegal Gum, 1,2-Hexanediol, Caprylyl Glycol, Hydroxyacetophenone, Xanthan Gum, Trisodium Ethylenediamine Disuccinate, Dextran, Potassium Hydroxide, Ci 77499 (Iron Oxides) Show all ingredients by function Aqua (Water, Eau) solvent Butylene Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, solvent 0, 1 Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Vp/Eicosene Copolymer viscosity controlling Stearic Acid emollient, viscosity controlling 0, 2-3 Behenyl Behenate emollient Copernicia Cerifera Cera (Copernicia Cerifera (Carnauba) Wax, Cire De Carnauba) Glyceryl Stearate emollient, emulsifying Polyhydroxystearic Acid emulsifying Polyisobutene Candelilla Cera (Euphorbia Cerifera (Candelilla) Wax, Cire De Candelilla) Panthenol soothing, moisturizer/​humectant goodie Biotinoyl Tripeptide-1 cell-communicating ingredient Acetyl Tetrapeptide-3 Trifolium Pratense (Clover) Flower Extract Sodium Hyaluronate Tocopheryl Acetate antioxidant Acacia Senegal Gum 1,2-Hexanediol Caprylyl Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, emollient Hydroxyacetophenone antioxidant, preservative Xanthan Gum Trisodium Ethylenediamine Disuccinate chelating Dextran Potassium Hydroxide buffering Ci 77499 (Iron Oxides) colorant 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. 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. 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 We don't have description for this ingredient yet. 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 vegetable wax coming from the leaves of the Brazilian tropical palm tree, Copernicia cerifera. Similar to other waxes, it is used to stabilize and give body to products, or to keep stick type formulas solid. It is the hardest natural wax with a high melting point (around 85C) and high gloss making it a great wax choice for lip products. 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". A s what‑it‑does moisturizer/humectant | solvent irritancy, com. skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant emollient | viscosity controlling emollient | emulsifying soothing | moisturizer/humectant moisturizer/humectant | emollient antioxidant | preservative