Nø Cosmetics Ultimate Vitamin A Cream

Nø Cosmetics Ultimate Vitamin A Cream Nø Cosmetics Ultimate Vitamin A Cream ingredients explained: Water (Aqua), Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Propylene Glycol, Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Oil, Oryza Sativa (Rice) Starch, Undecane, Polyglyceryl-4 Oleate, Prunus Armeniaca (Apricot) Kernel Oil, Polyglyceryl-6 Oleate, Pentylene Glycol, Polyhydroxystearic Acid, Panthenol, Tridecane, Diglycerin, Magnesium Stearate, Magnesium Sulfate, Stearalkonium Hectorite, Plankton Extract, Oleic Acid, Propylene Carbonate, Ascorbyl Tetraisopalmitate, Tocopherol, Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Oil, Glycerin, Arginine, Proline, Sorbitol, Glycine, Hydrolyzed Soy Protein, Bis(Tripeptide-1) Copper Acetate, Lecithin, Acetyl Glutamine, SH-Oligopeptide-1, SH-Oligopeptide-2, SH-Polypeptide-1, SH-Polypeptide-9, SH-Polypeptide-11, Bacillus/Folic Acid Ferment Filtrate Extract, Sodium Hyaluronate, Caprylyl Glycol, Butylene Glycol, Glycine Soja (Soybean) Oil, Propanediol, Retinol, Cetyl Palmitate, Sorbitan Stearate, Hydrogenated Lecithin, Sodium Show all ingredients by function Water (Aqua) solvent Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride emollient Propylene Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, solvent 0, 0 Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Oil 0, 0-2 goodie Oryza Sativa (Rice) Starch viscosity controlling Undecane Polyglyceryl-4 Oleate emulsifying Prunus Armeniaca (Apricot) Kernel Oil 0, 1-2 Polyglyceryl-6 Oleate Pentylene Glycol solvent, moisturizer/​humectant Polyhydroxystearic Acid Panthenol soothing, moisturizer/​humectant Tridecane perfuming Diglycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant Magnesium Stearate colorant, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 1 Magnesium Sulfate Stearalkonium Hectorite Plankton Extract Oleic Acid emollient, emulsifying Propylene Carbonate solvent, viscosity controlling Ascorbyl Tetraisopalmitate antioxidant Tocopherol 0-3, 0-3 Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Oil Glycerin superstar Arginine skin-identical ingredient Proline Sorbitol moisturizer/​humectant Glycine Hydrolyzed Soy Protein Bis(Tripeptide-1) Copper Acetate Lecithin Acetyl Glutamine SH-Oligopeptide-1 cell-communicating ingredient SH-Oligopeptide-2 SH-Polypeptide-1 SH-Polypeptide-9 SH-Polypeptide-11 Bacillus/Folic Acid Ferment Filtrate Extract antioxidant, moisturizer/​humectant Sodium Hyaluronate Caprylyl Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, emollient Butylene Glycol Glycine Soja (Soybean) Oil emollient, perfuming 0, 3 Propanediol Retinol Cetyl Palmitate Sorbitan Stearate 1, 0 Hydrogenated Lecithin Sodium Retinoyl Hyaluronate Cellulose Retinal Hydroxyacetophenone antioxidant, preservative Phenoxyethanol preservative Sodium Hydroxide buffering 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 super common emollient that makes your skin feel nice and smooth. It comes from coconut oil and glycerin, it’s light-textured, clear, odorless and non-greasy. It’s a nice ingredient that just feels good on the skin, is super well tolerated by every skin type and easy to formulate with. No wonder it’s popular. It's a helper ingredient that improves the freeze-thaw stability of products It's also a solvent, humectant and to some extent a penetration enhancer It has a bad reputation among natural cosmetics advocates but cosmetic scientists and toxicology experts do not agree (read more in the geeky details section) 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 pr what‑it‑does moisturizer/humectant | solvent irritancy, com. solvent | moisturizer/humectant soothing | moisturizer/humectant skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant colorant | moisturizer/humectant emollient | emulsifying solvent | viscosity controlling moisturizer/humectant antioxidant | moisturizer/humectant moisturizer/humectant | emollient emollient | perfuming antioxidant | preservative