Riversol Exfoliating Glycolic Peel

Riversol Exfoliating Glycolic Peel Riversol Exfoliating Glycolic Peel ingredients explained: Water/Aqua, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Propylene Glycol, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea Butter), Glycolic Acid, Cetearyl Alcohol, Polysorbate 60, Ceteth-20 Phosphate, Dicetyl Phosphate, Hinokitiol (Beta-Thujaplicin), Disodium Lauriminodipropionate Tocopheryl Phosphates, Tocopheryl Acetate, Sodium Hydroxide, Propylene Glycol Alginate, PVM/MA Decadiene Crosspolymer, Xanthan Gum, Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer, Phenoxyethanol, Caprylyl Glycol, Sodium Citrate, Sorbic Acid, Citric Acid Show all ingredients by function Water/Aqua solvent Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride emollient Propylene Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, solvent 0, 0 Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea Butter) goodie Glycolic Acid exfoliant, buffering superstar Cetearyl Alcohol emollient, viscosity controlling, emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing 1, 2 Polysorbate 60 emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing Ceteth-20 Phosphate surfactant/​cleansing Dicetyl Phosphate Hinokitiol (Beta-Thujaplicin) Disodium Lauriminodipropionate Tocopheryl Phosphates soothing, surfactant/​cleansing Tocopheryl Acetate antioxidant Sodium Hydroxide buffering Propylene Glycol Alginate viscosity controlling PVM/MA Decadiene Crosspolymer Xanthan Gum Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer Phenoxyethanol preservative Caprylyl Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, emollient Sodium Citrate chelating, buffering Sorbic Acid Citric Acid 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) Unless you live under a rock you must have heard about shea butter. It's probably the most hyped up natural butter in skincare today. It comes from the seeds of African Shea or Karite Trees and used as a magic moisturizer and emollient. But it's not only a simple emollient, it regenerates and soothes the skin, protects it from external factors (such as UV rays or wind) and is also rich in antioxidants (among others vitamin A, E, F, quercetin and epigallocatechin gallate). If you are looking for rich emollient benefits + more, shea is hard to beat. It’s the most researched AHA with the most proven skin benefits It gently lifts off dead skin cells to reveal newer, fresher, smoother skin It can help skin’s own collagen production that results in firmer, younger skin It can fade brown spots caused by sun damage or PIH Choose a product where you know the concentration and pH value because these two greatly influence effectiveness Don’t forget to use your sunscreen (in any case but especially so next to an AHA product) Slight stinging or burning with a stronger AHA product is normal If your skin is very sensitive, rosacea prone choose rather a BHA or PHA product An extremely common multitasker ingredient that gives your skin a nice soft feel (emollient) and gives body to creams and lotions. It also helps to stabilize oil-water mixes (emulsions), though it does not function as an emulsifier in itself. Its typical use level in most cream type formulas is 2-3%. It’s a so-called fatty alcohol, a mix of cetyl and stearyl alcohol, other two emollient fatty alcohols. Though chemically speaking, it is alcohol (as in, it has an -OH group in its molecule), its properties are totally different from the pro what‑it‑does moisturizer/humectant | solvent irritancy, com. exfoliant | buffering emollient | viscosity controlling | emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing surfactant/cleansing soothing | surfactant/cleansing moisturizer/humectant | emollient chelating | buffering