Nø Cosmetics Retinoid Eye Roll-On

Nø Cosmetics Retinoid Eye Roll-On Nø Cosmetics Retinoid Eye Roll-On ingredients explained: Aqua (Water), Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Oil, Propanediol, Silica, Dimethyl Isosorbide, Hydroxypinacolone Retinoate, Oligopeptide-2, Bacillus Ferment, Inonotus Obliquus (Mushroom) Extract, Lauryl Glucoside, Myristyl Glucoside, Polyglyceryl-6 Laurate, Butylene Glycol, Acacia Senegal Gum, Xanthan Gum, Bisabolol, Tocopherol, Helianthus Annus (Sunflower) Seed Oil, Glyceryl Caprylate, Glycerin, Phenoxyethanol, Ethylhexylglycerin Show all ingredients by function Aqua (Water) solvent Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Oil emollient 0, 0-2 goodie Propanediol solvent, moisturizer/​humectant Silica viscosity controlling Dimethyl Isosorbide solvent, viscosity controlling Hydroxypinacolone Retinoate cell-communicating ingredient Oligopeptide-2 Bacillus Ferment Inonotus Obliquus (Mushroom) Extract Lauryl Glucoside surfactant/​cleansing Myristyl Glucoside Polyglyceryl-6 Laurate emulsifying Butylene Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, solvent 0, 1 Acacia Senegal Gum Xanthan Gum Bisabolol soothing Tocopherol antioxidant 0-3, 0-3 Helianthus Annus (Sunflower) Seed Oil 0, 0 Glyceryl Caprylate preservative Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant superstar Phenoxyethanol Ethylhexylglycerin 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. Jojoba is a drought resistant evergreen shrub native to South-western North America. It's known and grown for jojoba oil, the golden yellow liquid coming from the seeds (about 50% of the weight of the seeds will be oil). At first glance, it seems like your average emollient plant oil: it looks like an oil and it's nourishing and moisturizing to the skin but if we dig a bit deeper, it turns out that jojoba oil is really special and unique: technically - or rather chemically - it's not an oil but a wax ester (and calling it an oil is kind of sloppy). So what the heck is a wax ester and why is that important anyway? Well, to understand what a wax ester is, you first have to know that oils are chemically triglycerides: one glycerin + three fatty acids attached to it. The fatty acids attached to the glycerin vary and thus we have many kinds of oils, but they are all triglycerides. Mother Nature created triglycerides to be easily hydrolyzed (be broken down to a glycerin + 3 fatty acid molecules) and oxidized (the fatty acid is broken down into small parts) - this happens basically when we eat fats or oils and our body generates energy from it. Mother Nature also created wax esters but for a totally different purpose. Chemically, a wax ester is a fatty acid + a fatty alcohol, one long molecule. Wax esters are on the outer surface of several plant leaves to give them environmental protection. 25-30% of human sebum is also wax esters to give us people environmental protection. So being a wax ester results in a couple of unique properties: First, jojoba oil is extremely stable. Like crazy stable. Even if you heat it to 370 C (698 F) for 96 hours, it does not budge. (Many plant oils tend to go off pretty quickly). If you have some pure jojoba oil at home, you should be fine using it for years. Second, jojoba oil is the most similar to human sebum (both being wax esters), and the two are completely miscible. Acne.org has this not fully proven theory that thanks to this, jojoba might be able to "trick" the skin into thinking it has already produced enough sebum, so it might have "skin balancing" properties for oily skin. Third, jojoba oil moisturizes the skin through a unique dual action: on the one hand, it mixes with sebum and forms a thin, non-greasy, semi-occlusive layer; on the other hand, it absorbs into t what‑it‑does irritancy, com. solvent | moisturizer/humectant solvent | viscosity controlling surfactant/cleansing moisturizer/humectant | solvent skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant