Osmosis Boost Peptide Activating Mist

Osmosis Boost Peptide Activating Mist Osmosis Boost Peptide Activating Mist ingredients explained: Water, Propanediol, Polyglutamic Acid, Acetyl Tetrapeptide-5, Sodium Hyaluronate, Saccharide Isomerate, Hibiscus Sabdariffa Fruit Extract, Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract, Sodium Carboxymethyl Beta-Glucan, Panthenol, Glycerin, Citrus Medica Limonum (Lemon) Oil, Citrus Aurantium Bergamia (Bergamot) Fruit Oil, Erythritol, Sorbitan Oleate Decylglucoside Crosspolymer, Citric Acid, Sodium Citrate, 1,2-Hexanediol, Caprylhydroxamic Acid Show all ingredients by function Water solvent Propanediol solvent, moisturizer/​humectant Polyglutamic Acid moisturizer/​humectant goodie Acetyl Tetrapeptide-5 cell-communicating ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant Sodium Hyaluronate skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 Saccharide Isomerate Hibiscus Sabdariffa Fruit Extract Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract antioxidant, soothing Sodium Carboxymethyl Beta-Glucan surfactant/​cleansing, viscosity controlling Panthenol soothing, moisturizer/​humectant Glycerin superstar Citrus Medica Limonum (Lemon) Oil Citrus Aurantium Bergamia (Bergamot) Fruit Oil perfuming icky Erythritol Sorbitan Oleate Decylglucoside Crosspolymer emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing Citric Acid buffering Sodium Citrate chelating, buffering 1,2-Hexanediol Caprylhydroxamic Acid 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. Propanediol is a natural alternative for the often used and often bad-mouthed propylene glycol. It's produced sustainably from corn sugar and it's Ecocert approved. It's quite a multi-tasker: can be used to improve skin moisturization, as a solvent, to boost preservative efficacy or to influence the sensory properties of the end formula. A natural high-molecular weight amino acid polymer (big molecule from repeated subunits) that is claimed to have awesome, better than IT-moisturizer HA, skin hydrating properties. It is a film-forming polymer that improves both the moisture binding and retention properties of the skin. A four amino acid peptide that is claimed to improve puffy eye bags via its anti-oedema and anti-glycation effects. To back this claim up, the manufacturer created an in-vivo study with 20 volunteers using 10% of EYESERYL (that comes down to 0.01% (!) of the pure peptide) and found that by day 15, 70% of the volunteers improved, while 95% of the volunteers improved by the end of the study (60 days). About third of them improved only slightly, third of them showed an ok improvement and third showed a good improvement. They also have pretty convincing before and after photos, so we can tell you that for the lucky ones, the improvement can be real and visible. But, the thing is that puffiness around the eyes can have multiple reasons and one of the major ones is fat accumulation that might happen as we age. No miracle cream or ingredient can do much about that, however, another common reason is water accumulation. If the reason behind your eye bags is this latter one, trying an eye cream with Acetyl Tetrapeptide-5 can be a good idea and might bring nice improvements. 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 what‑it‑does solvent | moisturizer/humectant moisturizer/humectant cell-communicating ingredient | moisturizer/humectant skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. antioxidant | soothing surfactant/cleansing | viscosity controlling soothing | moisturizer/humectant emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing chelating | buffering