Nø Cosmetics Hand Cream Cloud 9

Nø Cosmetics Hand Cream Cloud 9 Nø Cosmetics Hand Cream Cloud 9 ingredients explained: Aqua (Water), Cetearyl Alcohol, Glycerin, Theobroma Cacao, (Cocoa) Seed Butter, Prunus Amygdalus Dulcis (Sweet Almond) Oil, Sodium Cetearyl Sulfate, Panthenol, Glyceryl Glucoside, Undecane, Distarch Phosphate, Microcrystalline Cellulose, Tridecane, Allantoin, Tocopheryl Acetate, Phenoxyethanol, Propylene Glycol, Decylene Glycol Show all ingredients by function Aqua (Water) solvent Cetearyl Alcohol emollient, viscosity controlling, emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing 1, 2 Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Theobroma Cacao emollient 0, 4 goodie (Cocoa) Seed Butter Prunus Amygdalus Dulcis (Sweet Almond) Oil 0, 1-3 Sodium Cetearyl Sulfate surfactant/​cleansing Panthenol soothing, moisturizer/​humectant Glyceryl Glucoside moisturizer/​humectant Undecane Distarch Phosphate Microcrystalline Cellulose viscosity controlling Tridecane perfuming Allantoin soothing Tocopheryl Acetate antioxidant Phenoxyethanol preservative Propylene Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, solvent Decylene Glycol 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. An extremely common multitasker ingredient that gives your skin a nice soft feel (emollient) and gives body to creams and lotions. It also helps to stabilize oil-water mixes (emulsions), though it does not function as an emulsifier in itself. Its typical use level in most cream type formulas is 2-3%. It’s a so-called fatty alcohol, a mix of cetyl and stearyl alcohol, other two emollient fatty alcohols. Though chemically speaking, it is alcohol (as in, it has an -OH group in its molecule), its properties are totally different from the properties of low molecular weight or drying alcohols such as denat. alcohol. Fatty alcohols have a long oil-soluble (and thus emollient) tail part that makes them absolutely non-drying and non-irritating and are totally ok for the skin. 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 Theobroma means "food of the gods" in Greek though probably "treat of the people" would be more spot on. The cacao fruits and especially the seeds in it need no introduction as everyone knows them as the magical raw material of the magical sweet treat, chocolate (the flavour is composed of more than 1200(!) substances, and the exact chemical nature of it is not really understood, so it's indeed magic. :)). As for skincare, cocoa butter counts as a rich emollient that can moisturize and nourish even the driest skin (think chapped hands or lips). It's solid at room temperature and melts nicely when you smear it on. It's loaded with good-for-the-skin things: it contains fatty acids, mainly oleic (35%), stearic (34%), and palmitic (25%) and it also has antioxidant vitamin E and polyphenols. An ex-vivo (made on human skin but not on real people) study examined the cocoa polyphenols and found that 0.5-0.75% of them improved skin tone and elasticity and had a similarly positive impact on GAGs (important natural moisturizing factors in the skin) and collagen synthesis what‑it‑does emollient | viscosity controlling | emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing irritancy, com. skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant surfactant/cleansing soothing | moisturizer/humectant moisturizer/humectant moisturizer/humectant | solvent