It's Skin Power 10 Formula Syn®-Ake

It's Skin Power 10 Formula Syn®-Ake It's Skin Power 10 Formula Syn®-Ake ingredients explained: Water, Alcohol Denat, Butylene Glycol, Hyaluronic Acid, Opuntia Tuna Fruit Extract, Dipeptide Diaminobutyroyl Benzylamide Diacetate, Adansonia Digitata Oil, Saccharomyces Ferment Filtrate, Malt Extract, Tocopheryl Acetate, Porphyra Yezoensis Extract, Trehalose, Adenosine, Panthenol, Peg-11 Methyl Ether Dimethicone, Neopentyl Glycol Diheptanoate, Caprylyl Glycol, Peg-40 Hydrogenated Castor Oil, Ppg-26-Buteth-26, Ethylhexylglycerin, Carbomer, Triethanol Amine, Hydroxyethyl Acrylate/Sodium Acryloyldimethyl Taurate Copolymer, Disodium Edta, Caramel, Perfume Show all ingredients by function Water solvent Alcohol Denat antimicrobial/​antibacterial, solvent, viscosity controlling icky Butylene Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, solvent 0, 1 Hyaluronic Acid skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant goodie Opuntia Tuna Fruit Extract Dipeptide Diaminobutyroyl Benzylamide Diacetate cell-communicating ingredient Adansonia Digitata Oil emollient Saccharomyces Ferment Filtrate soothing, moisturizer/​humectant Malt Extract Tocopheryl Acetate antioxidant 0, 0 Porphyra Yezoensis Extract Trehalose moisturizer/​humectant Adenosine Panthenol Peg-11 Methyl Ether Dimethicone emulsifying Neopentyl Glycol Diheptanoate Caprylyl Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, emollient Peg-40 Hydrogenated Castor Oil emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing Ppg-26-Buteth-26 Ethylhexylglycerin preservative Carbomer viscosity controlling Triethanol Amine buffering 0, 2 Hydroxyethyl Acrylate/Sodium Acryloyldimethyl Taurate Copolymer Disodium Edta chelating Caramel colorant Perfume perfuming 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. It's a super common and super debated skincare ingredient It has several benefits: great solvent, penetration enhancer, creates cosmetically elegant, light formulas, great astringent and antimicrobial It can be very drying if it's in the first few ingredients on an ingredient list Some experts even think that regular exposure to alcohol damages skin barrier and causes inflammation though it's a debated opinion (read more in geeky details tab) 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 naturally in our skin and behaves there like a sponge It can bind up to 1000 times its own weight in water It is a big molecule from repeated subunits (polymer) so different molecular weight versions exist (unfortunately there is no way to determine MW from INCI list only) High-molecular-weight-HA (>500 kDa) is an excellent surface hydrator, skin protectant and can act as an osmotic pump helping water-soluble actives to penetrate deeper into the skin Low-molecular-weight-HA (< 500 kDa) can hydrate the skin somewhat deeper though it is still a big molecule and works mainly in the epidermis (outer layer of the skin) Low-molecular-weight-HA might also help the skin to repair itself by increasing its self-defense (~ 200kDa used in the study) Ultra-low-molecular-weight-HA (<50kDa) is a controversial ingredient and might work as a pro-inflammatory signal molecule We don't have description for this ingredient yet. This awfully long named ingredient is, in fact, a pretty small molecule. It's a tripeptide (a three amino acid peptide) with molecular weight less than 500 Da, meaning that it's small enough to penetrate nicely and easily into the skin. It belongs to the "Botox in a jar" type of peptides (similar to Argireline or Leupha what‑it‑does antimicrobial/antibacterial | solvent | viscosity controlling moisturizer/humectant | solvent irritancy, com. skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant soothing | moisturizer/humectant moisturizer/humectant moisturizer/humectant | emollient emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing