HASK Keratin Protein Smoothing Conditioner

HASK Keratin Protein Smoothing Conditioner HASK Keratin Protein Smoothing Conditioner ingredients explained: Aqua/Water/Eau, Cetyl Alcohol, Behentrimonium Chloride, Isopropyl Palmitate, Parfum/Fragrance, Keratin Amino Acids, Keratin, Hydrolyzed Keratin, Hydrolyzed Collagen, Cocoyl Hydrolyzed Keratin, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter, Olea Europaea (Olive) Fruit Oil, Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Oil, Sesamum Indicum (Sesame) Seed Oil, Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Oil, Glycerin, Cetrimonium Chloride, Dimethicone, Panthenol, Phenoxyethanol, Citric Acid, Polyquaternium-55, Stearyl Alcohol, Caprylyl Glycol, Potassium Sorbate, Triethyl Citrate, Sodium Benzoate, Butylphenyl Methylpropional, Hexyl Cinnamal, Linalool Show all ingredients by function Aqua/Water/Eau solvent Cetyl Alcohol emollient, viscosity controlling 2, 2 Behentrimonium Chloride preservative Isopropyl Palmitate emollient 1, 3-4 Parfum/Fragrance perfuming icky Keratin Amino Acids Keratin Hydrolyzed Keratin moisturizer/​humectant Hydrolyzed Collagen emollient, moisturizer/​humectant goodie Cocoyl Hydrolyzed Keratin surfactant/​cleansing Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter Olea Europaea (Olive) Fruit Oil antioxidant, emollient 0, 0-2 Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Oil emollient, perfuming 0, 4 Sesamum Indicum (Sesame) Seed Oil 0, 1-3 Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Oil Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Cetrimonium Chloride antimicrobial/​antibacterial, emulsifying, preservative, surfactant/​cleansing Dimethicone 0, 1 Panthenol soothing, moisturizer/​humectant Phenoxyethanol Citric Acid buffering Polyquaternium-55 Stearyl Alcohol emollient, viscosity controlling, emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing Caprylyl Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, emollient Potassium Sorbate Triethyl Citrate Sodium Benzoate Butylphenyl Methylpropional Hexyl Cinnamal Linalool 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 so-called fatty (the good, non-drying kind of) alcohol that does all kinds of things in a skincare product: it makes your skin feel smooth and nice (emollient), helps to thicken up products and also helps water and oil to blend (emulsifier). Can be derived from coconut or palm kernel oil. We don't have description for this ingredient yet. A clear, colorless emollient ester (oily liquid from isopropyl alcohol + palmitic acid) that makes the skin nice and smooth. It has very good spreading properties and gives a silky touch to the products. Exactly what it sounds: nice smelling stuff put into cosmetic products so that the end product also smells nice. Fragrance in the US and parfum in the EU is a generic term on the ingredient list that is made up of 30 to 50 chemicals on average (but it can have as much as 200 components!). If you are someone who likes to know what you put on your face then fragrance is not your best friend - there's no way to know what’s really in it. Also, if your skin is sensitive, fragrance is again not your best friend. It’s the number one cause of contact allergy to cosmetics. It’s definitely a smart thing to avoid with sensitive skin (and fragrance of any type - natural is just as allergic as synthetic, if not worse!). The chemically chopped up version of the big protein molecule, collagen. It is often derived from fish or bovine sources and works as a nice moisturizer and humectant that helps the skin to hold onto water. To understand a bit more what Hydrolyzed Collagen is, you have to know that proteins are large chains of amino acids connected with so-called peptide bonds. These bonds can be broken up when a water molecule is added and the resulting thing is a mix of shorter length amino acids, also called peptides. So Hydrolyzed Collagen is not really collagen, it is rather an undefined and varying mix of largish peptides. Based on a manufacturer's data, the whole, soluble collagen has an average molecular weight of 300 000 Da, while this chopped up mixture has an average MW of 12 000 Da (still pretty big). The main thing of these largish peptides is to act as water-binding agents, and to make the skin nice and smooth (aka emollient). Hydrolyzed Collagen is also often used in cleansers as it can make harsh surfactants milder and in hair conditioners as it improves the fl what‑it‑does emollient | viscosity controlling irritancy, com. moisturizer/humectant emollient | moisturizer/humectant surfactant/cleansing antioxidant | emollient emollient | perfuming skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant antimicrobial/antibacterial | emulsifying | preservative | surfactant/cleansing soothing | moisturizer/humectant emollient | viscosity controlling | emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing moisturizer/humectant | emollient