Mizon Peptide 500 (Discontinued)

Mizon Peptide 500 (Discontinued) Mizon Peptide 500 ingredients explained: Water, Copper Tripeptide-1, Sodium Hyaluronate, Butylene Glycol, Beta Glucan, Caprylyl Glycol, Ethylhexyl Glycerin, Tropolone, Peg-60 Hydrogenated Castor Oil, Human Oligopeptide-1, Palmitoyl Pentapeptide-4, Acetyl Hexapeptide-8, Pentapeptide-13, Disodium Edta Show all ingredients by function Water solvent Copper Tripeptide-1 cell-communicating ingredient, soothing, antioxidant goodie Sodium Hyaluronate skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 Butylene Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, solvent 0, 1 Beta Glucan soothing, moisturizer/​humectant Caprylyl Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, emollient Ethylhexyl Glycerin preservative Tropolone Peg-60 Hydrogenated Castor Oil emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing Human Oligopeptide-1 cell-communicating ingredient Palmitoyl Pentapeptide-4 Acetyl Hexapeptide-8 cell-communicating ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant Pentapeptide-13 Disodium Edta chelating 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. GHK-Cu is a copper-peptide complex found naturally in yucky bodily fluids (plasma, saliva, and urine) It has unique wound healing properties by stimulating the breakdown of unhealthy, too large collagen in scar tissue and stimulating nice and healthy collagen production afterwards It stimulates the production of several important skin-identical ingredients (e.g. collagen, elastin, and glycosaminoglycans) It has significant anti-inflammatory and antioxidant effect There are a few promising studies showing GHK-Cu can improve skin elasticity, clarity, firmness and reduce lines and wrinkles It can improve hair growth by enlarging hair follicles (and bigger follicles produce longer, thicker hair) There are some urban legends about possible overdosing or facial hair problems (read more in geeky details) 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 molecular weight was 1.5-1.8 million Da that absolutely counts as high molecular weight). What seems to be a true difference, though, is that the salt form is more stable, easier to formulate and cheaper so it pops up more often on the ingredient lists. If you wanna become a real HA-and-the-skin expert you can read what‑it‑does cell-communicating ingredient | soothing | antioxidant skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. moisturizer/humectant | solvent soothing | moisturizer/humectant moisturizer/humectant | emollient emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing cell-communicating ingredient | moisturizer/humectant