PS (Primark) Multi Peptide

PS (Primark) Multi Peptide PS (Primark) Multi Peptide ingredients explained: Aqua (Water), Glycerin, Propylene Glycol, Propanediol, Butylene Glycol, Phenoxyethanol, Polyacrylate Crosspolymer-6, Chlorphenesin, Niacinamide, Xanthan Gum, Carbomer, Sodium Lactate, Sodium Citrate, Polysorbate 20, Centella Asiatica Extract, Trisodium Ethylenediamine Disuccinate, Sodium Hyaluronate Show all ingredients by function Aqua (Water) solvent Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Propylene Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, solvent Propanediol solvent, moisturizer/​humectant Butylene Glycol 0, 1 Phenoxyethanol preservative Polyacrylate Crosspolymer-6 viscosity controlling Chlorphenesin preservative, antimicrobial/​antibacterial Niacinamide cell-communicating ingredient, skin brightening, anti-acne, moisturizer/​humectant Xanthan Gum Carbomer Sodium Lactate buffering, moisturizer/​humectant goodie Sodium Citrate chelating, buffering Polysorbate 20 emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing Centella Asiatica Extract soothing, antioxidant, moisturizer/​humectant Trisodium Ethylenediamine Disuccinate chelating Sodium Hyaluronate 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 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 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) 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. Butylene glycol, or let’s just call it BG, is a multi-tasking colorless, syrupy liquid. It’s a great pick for creating a nice feeling product. BG’s main job is usually to be a solvent for the other ingredients. Other tasks include helping the product to absorb faster and deeper into the skin (penetration enhancer), making the product spread nicely over the skin (slip agent), and attracting water (humectant) into the skin. It’s an ingredient whose safety hasn’t been questioned so far by anyone (at least not that we know about). BG is approved by Ecocert and is also used enthusiastically in natural products. BTW, it’s also a food additive. It’s pretty much the current IT-preservative. It’s safe and gentle, but even more importantly, it’s not a feared-by-everyone-mostly-without-scientific-reason paraben. It’s not something new: it was introduced around 1950 and today it can be used up to 1% worldwide. It can be found in nature - in green tea - but the version used in cosmetics is synthetic. Other than having a good safety profile and being quite gentle to the skin it has some other advantages too. It can be used in many types of formulations as it has great thermal stability (can be heated what‑it‑does skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. moisturizer/humectant | solvent solvent | moisturizer/humectant preservative | antimicrobial/antibacterial cell-communicating ingredient | skin brightening | anti-acne | moisturizer/humectant buffering | moisturizer/humectant chelating | buffering emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing soothing | antioxidant | moisturizer/humectant