Serious Skincare Pure-Pep Peptide Concentrate

Serious Skincare Pure-Pep Peptide Concentrate Serious Skincare Pure-Pep Peptide Concentrate ingredients explained: Propylene Glycol, Water, Cyclomethicone, PEG/PPG-18/18 Dimethicone, Cyclopentasiloxane, Acetyl Octapeptide-3, Acetyl Hexapeptide-8, Palmitoyl Tripeptide-5, Glycerin, Tetrapeptide-14, Camellia Sinensis (Tea) Extract, Aspalathus Linearis (Rooibos) Extract, Boswellia Serrata Extract, Honey Extract, Pyroglutamylamidoethyl Indole, Myristoyl Pentapeptide-11, Glutamylamidoethyl Indole, Tetrapeptide-21, Butylene Glycol, Cyclotetrasiloxane, Dimethiconol, Bis-PEG-18 Methyl Ether Dimethyl Silane, Ethylhexylglycerin, Tetrahexyldecyl Ascorbate, Sodium Hyaluronate, Citrus Aurantium Bergamia (Bergamot) Fruit Oil, Sodium Chloride, Phenoxyethanol, Sodium Benzoate, Polysorbate 20, Tetrasodium EDTA Show all ingredients by function Propylene Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, solvent 0, 0 Water solvent Cyclomethicone emollient PEG/PPG-18/18 Dimethicone emulsifying Cyclopentasiloxane emollient, solvent Acetyl Octapeptide-3 cell-communicating ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant goodie Acetyl Hexapeptide-8 Palmitoyl Tripeptide-5 cell-communicating ingredient Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant superstar Tetrapeptide-14 cell-communicating ingredient, soothing Camellia Sinensis (Tea) Extract antioxidant, soothing Aspalathus Linearis (Rooibos) Extract Boswellia Serrata Extract soothing Honey Extract moisturizer/​humectant Pyroglutamylamidoethyl Indole Myristoyl Pentapeptide-11 Glutamylamidoethyl Indole Tetrapeptide-21 Butylene Glycol 0, 1 Cyclotetrasiloxane Dimethiconol emollient, moisturizer/​humectant Bis-PEG-18 Methyl Ether Dimethyl Silane emollient, moisturizer/​humectant, surfactant/​cleansing Ethylhexylglycerin preservative Tetrahexyldecyl Ascorbate antioxidant, skin brightening Sodium Hyaluronate Citrus Aurantium Bergamia (Bergamot) Fruit Oil perfuming icky Sodium Chloride viscosity controlling Phenoxyethanol Sodium Benzoate Polysorbate 20 emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing Tetrasodium EDTA chelating 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) 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. Cyclomethicone is not one type of silicone, but a whole mixture of them: it's a mix of specific chain length (4 to 7) cyclic structured silicone molecules. (There seems to be a confusion on the internet whether Cyclomethicone and Cyclopentasiloxane are the same. They are not the same, but Cyclopentasiloxane is part of the mixture that makes up Cyclomethicone). All the silicones in the Cyclomethicone mixture are volatile, meaning they evaporate from the skin or hair rather than stay on it. This means that Cyclomethicone has a light skin feel with none-to-minimal after-feel. It also makes the formulas easy to spread and has nice emollient properties. A silicone emulsifier that helps to create water in silicone emulsions. A super commonly used 5 unit long, cyclic structured silicone that is water-thin and does not stay on the skin but evaporates from it (called volatile silicone). Similar to other silicones, it gives skin and hair a silky, smooth feel. It's often combined with the non-volatile (i.e. stays on the skin) dimethicone as the two together form a water-resistant, breathable protective barrier on the skin without a negative tacky feel. A newer and, molecule-wise, somewhat bigger version of the famous "Botox-like" peptide called Acetyl Hexapeptide-8 or Argireline. Just like Argireline, Acetyl Octapeptide-3 is also claimed to influence the muscle contraction process that results in a more relaxed and line-free face, especially around the forehead and the eyes. While Argireline counts as a pretty well-proven peptide, with multiple studies confirming its anti-wrinkle efficacy, we cannot say the same for Acetyl Octapeptide-3. What we have is the manufacturer's claim that comparing 10% Argireline with 10% SNAP-8 solution (that means 0.005% pure peptide powder) the SNAP-8 peptide did a bit better as it reduced wrinkles by 34.98% vs 27.05% reduction for Argireline (twice a day use for 28 days on 17 women). Other than that, we can write here pretty much the same as at Argireline. Obviously, no pepti what‑it‑does moisturizer/humectant | solvent irritancy, com. emollient | solvent cell-communicating ingredient | moisturizer/humectant skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant cell-communicating ingredient | soothing antioxidant | soothing moisturizer/humectant emollient | moisturizer/humectant emollient | moisturizer/humectant | surfactant/cleansing antioxidant | skin brightening emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing