Revolution Skincare Gold Eye Hydrogel Hydrating Eye Patches With Colloidal Gold

Revolution Skincare Gold Eye Hydrogel Hydrating Eye Patches With Colloidal Gold Revolution Skincare Gold Eye Hydrogel Hydrating Eye Patches With Colloidal Gold ingredients explained: Aqua (Water, Eau), Glycerin, Methylpropanediol, Chondrus Crispus Extract, Sodium Hyaluronate, Soluble Collagen, Colloidal Gold, Allantoin, Potassium Chloride, Ceratonia Siliqua (Carob) Gum, Sucrose, Xanthan Gum, Cellulose Gum, Synthetic Fluorphlogopite, Tin Oxide, PEG-60 Hydrogenated Castor Oil, Disodium EDTA, Hydroxyacetophenone, 1,2-Hexanediol, Glyceryl Caprylate, Ci 77891 (Titanium Dioxide), Ci 77491 (Iron Oxides) Show all ingredients by function Aqua (Water, Eau) solvent Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Methylpropanediol Chondrus Crispus Extract moisturizer/​humectant, viscosity controlling goodie Sodium Hyaluronate Soluble Collagen moisturizer/​humectant Colloidal Gold antimicrobial/​antibacterial Allantoin soothing Potassium Chloride viscosity controlling Ceratonia Siliqua (Carob) Gum emollient, viscosity controlling Sucrose moisturizer/​humectant, soothing Xanthan Gum Cellulose Gum Synthetic Fluorphlogopite Tin Oxide colorant, abrasive/​scrub, viscosity controlling PEG-60 Hydrogenated Castor Oil emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing Disodium EDTA chelating Hydroxyacetophenone antioxidant, preservative 1,2-Hexanediol Glyceryl Caprylate preservative Ci 77891 (Titanium Dioxide) colorant Ci 77491 (Iron Oxides) 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 type of glycol that - according to the manufacturer - is an extremely good replacement for other glycols like propylene or butylene glycol. Its main job is to be a solvent, but it has also very good antimicrobial properties and acts as a true preservative booster. Also helps with skin hydration without stickiness or tacky feel. The extract of red seaweed that has nice film-forming, skin smoothing and moisturizing properties.​ The manufacturer claims that thanks to biomimetic properties between skin proteins and carrageenans it has a very long-lasting action and can form a "second skin". It also gives a "slow-release" effect to oil-loving active ingredients and measurably reduces trans-epidermal water loss (that's pretty much a synonym of saying that it moisturizes the skin). 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 writes on reddit "sodium hyaluronate disassociates into hyaluronic acid molecule and a sodium atom in solution". In spite of this, if you search for "hyaluronic acid vs sodium hyaluronate" you will find on multiple places that sodium hyaluronate is smaller and can penetrate the skin better. Chemically, this is definitely not true, as the two forms are almost the same, both are polymers and the subunits can be repeated in both what‑it‑does skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. moisturizer/humectant | viscosity controlling moisturizer/humectant antimicrobial/antibacterial emollient | viscosity controlling moisturizer/humectant | soothing colorant | abrasive/scrub | viscosity controlling emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing antioxidant | preservative