KERSTIN FLORIAN Corrective Multi-peptide Sheet Masque

KERSTIN FLORIAN Corrective Multi-peptide Sheet Masque KERSTIN FLORIAN Corrective Multi-peptide Sheet Masque ingredients explained: Water/Aqua/Eau, Glycerin, Olea Europaea (Olive) Fruit Oil, Sodium Hyaluronate, Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-7, Acetyl Tetrapeptide-15, Helichrysum Italicum Flower Extract, Caprylyl Glycol, Butylene Glycol, Caprylic/Capric Glycerides, Methylpropanediol, Xanthan Gum, Mannitol, Sodium Coco Pg-Dimonium Chloride Phosphate, Glyceryl Laurate, Phenylpropanol, Sodium Citrate, Sodium Polyacrylate, Citric Acid, Parfum (Fragrance), Potassium Sorbate Show all ingredients by function Water/Aqua/Eau solvent Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Olea Europaea (Olive) Fruit Oil antioxidant, emollient 0, 0-2 goodie Sodium Hyaluronate Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-7 cell-communicating ingredient Acetyl Tetrapeptide-15 Helichrysum Italicum Flower Extract perfuming Caprylyl Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, emollient Butylene Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, solvent 0, 1 Caprylic/Capric Glycerides emollient, emulsifying Methylpropanediol Xanthan Gum viscosity controlling Mannitol moisturizer/​humectant Sodium Coco Pg-Dimonium Chloride Phosphate surfactant/​cleansing Glyceryl Laurate Phenylpropanol perfuming, solvent Sodium Citrate chelating, buffering Sodium Polyacrylate Citric Acid buffering Parfum (Fragrance) icky Potassium Sorbate preservative 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 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 You probably know olive oil from the kitchen as a great and healthy option for salad dressing but it's also a great and healthy option to moisturize and nourish the skin, especially if it's on the dry side. Similar to other emollient plant oils, it's loaded with nourishing fatty acids: oleic is the main component (55-83%), and also contains linoleic (3.5-20%) and palmitic acids (7-20%). It also contains antioxidant polyphenols, tocopherols (types of vitamin E) and carotenoids and it's one of the best plant sources of skin-identical emollient, Squalene. Overall, a great option for dry skin but less so for acne-prone or damaged skin. It’s the - sodium form - cousin of the famous NMF, hyaluronic acid (HA). If HA does not tell you anything we have a super detailed, geeky explanation about it here. The TL; DR version of HA is that it's a huge polymer (big molecule from repeated subunits) found in the skin that acts as a sponge helping the skin to hold onto water, being plump and elastic. HA is famous for its crazy water holding capacity as it can bind up to 1000 times its own weight in water. As far as skincare goes, sodium hyaluronate and hyaluronic acid are pretty much the same and the two names are used interchangeably. As cosmetic chemist kindofstephen writes on reddit "sodium hyaluronate disassociates into hyaluronic acid molecule and a sodium atom in solution". In spite of this, if you search for "hyaluronic acid vs sodium hyaluronate" you will find on multiple places that sodium hyaluronate is smaller and can penetrate the skin better. Chemically, this is definitely not true, as the two forms are almost the same, both are polymers and the subunits can be repeated in both forms as much as you like. (We also checked Prospector for sodium hyaluronate versions actually used in cosmetic products and found that the most common what‑it‑does skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. antioxidant | emollient moisturizer/humectant | emollient moisturizer/humectant | solvent emollient | emulsifying moisturizer/humectant surfactant/cleansing perfuming | solvent chelating | buffering