Scandinavian Biolabs Hair Styling Gel

Scandinavian Biolabs Hair Styling Gel Scandinavian Biolabs Hair Styling Gel ingredients explained: Aqua, Polyacrylate-14, Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice, Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer, Rosmarinus Officinalis Leaf Extract, Hippophae Rhamnoides Oil, Helianthus Annuus Seed Oil, Phenoxyethanol, Caprylyl Glycol, Citric Acid, Potassium Sorbate, Sodium Benzoate, Glycerin, Triethanolamine, Heterotheca Inuloides Flower Extract Show all ingredients by function Aqua solvent Polyacrylate-14 Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice soothing, moisturizer/​humectant goodie Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer viscosity controlling Rosmarinus Officinalis Leaf Extract antioxidant, soothing, antimicrobial/​antibacterial Hippophae Rhamnoides Oil antioxidant, emollient Helianthus Annuus Seed Oil emollient 0, 0 Phenoxyethanol preservative Caprylyl Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, emollient Citric Acid buffering Potassium Sorbate Sodium Benzoate Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant superstar Triethanolamine 0, 2 Heterotheca Inuloides Flower Extract 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. We don't have description for this ingredient yet. Aloe Vera is one of today’s magic plants. It does have some very nice properties indeed, though famous dermatologist Leslie Baumann warns us in her book that most of the evidence is anecdotal and the plant might be a bit overhyped. What research does confirm about Aloe is that it’s a great moisturizer and has several anti-inflammatory (among others contains salicylates, polysaccharides, magnesium lactate and C-glucosyl chromone) as well as some antibacterial components. It also helps wound healing and skin regeneration in general. All in all definitely a goodie. Though its long name does not reveal it, this polymer molecule (big molecule from repeated subunits or monomers) is a relative to the super common, water-loving thickener, Carbomer. Both of them are big molecules that contain acrylic acid units, but Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer also contains some other monomers that are hydrophobic, i.e. water-hating. This means that our molecule is part water- and part oil-loving, so it not only works as a thickener but also as an emulsion stabilizer. It is very common in gel-type formulas that also contain an oil-phase as well as in cleansers as it also works with most cleansing agents (unlike a lot of other thickeners). The extract coming from the lovely herb, rosemary. It contains lots of chemicals, including flavonoids, phenolic acids, and diterpenes. Its main active is rosmarinic acid, a potent antioxidant, and anti-inflammatory. It has also anti-bacterial, astringent and toning properties. The leaves contain a small amount of essential oil (1-2%) with fragrant components, so if you are allergic to fragrance, it might be better to avoid it. The oil coming from the pulp of the sea buckthorn berry. It has a pretty unique fatty acid composition: 65% is a combination of the rare Omega-7, aka palmitoleic acid and the more common palmitic acid. Fatty acids give the oil nice moisturizing and skin-protecting abilities. But that's not all the goodness of sea buckthorn oil. It contains antioxidant superstar, Vitamin E (in multiple forms), antioxidant (and orange color giving) pigments beta-carotene and lycopene, as well as skin-soothing and replenishing beta-sitosterol. Btw, used undiluted, it will make your skin orange. All in all, a goodie emol what‑it‑does soothing | moisturizer/humectant antioxidant | soothing | antimicrobial/antibacterial antioxidant | emollient irritancy, com. moisturizer/humectant | emollient skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant