Reviva Labs Advanced Peptide Plus

Reviva Labs Advanced Peptide Plus Reviva Labs Advanced Peptide Plus ingredients explained: Purified Water, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Squalane (Olive), Glyceryl Stearate, Glycerin, Sodium Hyaluronate, Ceteareth-20, DMAE Bitartrate, Aminopropyl Ascorbyl Phosphate (Vitamin C), PEG-100 Stearate, Glycine Soja (Soybean) Protein, Hydrolyzed Rice Protein, Acetyl Hexapeptide-3 (Argireline), Collagen, Malus Domestica (Apple) Fruit Cell Culture Extract, Superoxide Dismutase, Hydroxyethylcellulose, Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice, Allantoin, Benzyl Alcohol, Xanthan Gum, Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer, Ethylhexylglycerin, Sodium Hydroxide Show all ingredients by function Purified Water solvent Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride emollient Squalane (Olive) skin-identical ingredient, emollient 0, 1 goodie Glyceryl Stearate emollient, emulsifying Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Sodium Hyaluronate Ceteareth-20 emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing 3, 2 DMAE Bitartrate Aminopropyl Ascorbyl Phosphate (Vitamin C) antioxidant, skin brightening PEG-100 Stearate surfactant/​cleansing, emulsifying Glycine Soja (Soybean) Protein emulsifying Hydrolyzed Rice Protein Acetyl Hexapeptide-3 (Argireline) cell-communicating ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant Collagen moisturizer/​humectant Malus Domestica (Apple) Fruit Cell Culture Extract Superoxide Dismutase antioxidant Hydroxyethylcellulose viscosity controlling Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice soothing, moisturizer/​humectant Allantoin soothing Benzyl Alcohol preservative, perfuming, solvent, viscosity controlling Xanthan Gum Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer Ethylhexylglycerin 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 seems to us that squalane is in fashion and there is a reason for it. Chemically speaking, it is a saturated (no double bonds) hydrocarbon (a molecule consisting only of carbon and hydrogen), meaning that it's a nice and stable oily liquid with a long shelf life. It occurs naturally in certain fish and plant oils (e.g. olive), and in the sebum (the oily stuff our skin produces) of the human skin. As f.c. puts it in his awesome blog post, squalane's main things are "emolliency, surface occlusion, and TEWL prevention all with extreme cosmetic elegance". In other words, it's a superb moisturizer that makes your skin nice and smooth, without being heavy or greasy. Another advantage of squalane is that it is pretty much compatible with all skin types and skin conditions. It is excellent for acne-prone skin and safe to use even if you have fungi-related skin issues, like seborrhea or fungal acne. The unsaturated (with double bonds) and hence less stable version of Squalane is Squalene, you can read about it here >> A super common, waxy, white, solid stuff that helps water and oil to mix together, gives body to creams and leaves the skin feeling soft and smooth. Chemically speaking, it is the attachment of a glycerin molecule to the fatty acid called stearic acid. It can be produced from most vegetable oils (in oils three fatty acid molecules are attached to glycerin instead of just one like here) in a pretty simple, "green" process that is similar to soap making. It's readily biodegradable. It also occurs naturally in our body and is used as a food additive. As cosmetic chemist Colins writes it, "its safety really is beyond any doubt". 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 fo what‑it‑does skin-identical ingredient | emollient irritancy, com. emollient | emulsifying skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing antioxidant | skin brightening surfactant/cleansing | emulsifying cell-communicating ingredient | moisturizer/humectant moisturizer/humectant soothing | moisturizer/humectant preservative | perfuming | solvent | viscosity controlling