Serucell Kfs® Cellular Protein Complex Serum

Serucell Kfs® Cellular Protein Complex Serum Serucell Kfs® Cellular Protein Complex Serum ingredients explained: Water, Human Keratinocyte Fibroblast Saline Conditioned Media, Cetearyl Alcohol, Ceteareth-20, Tetrahexyldecyl Ascorbate, Glycerin, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Oil, Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Oil, Tocopheryl Acetate, Sodium Hyaluronate, Glyceryl Stearate, Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Oil, Prunus Amygdalus Dulcis (Sweet Almond) Oil, Cetyl Alcohol, Retinyl Palmitate, Phenoxyethanol, Sodium Citrate, Carbomer, Fragrance Show all ingredients by function Water solvent Human Keratinocyte Fibroblast Saline Conditioned Media Cetearyl Alcohol emollient, viscosity controlling, emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing 1, 2 Ceteareth-20 emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing 3, 2 Tetrahexyldecyl Ascorbate antioxidant, skin brightening goodie Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Oil emollient Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Oil Tocopheryl Acetate antioxidant Sodium Hyaluronate Glyceryl Stearate emollient, emulsifying 0, 1 Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Oil emollient, perfuming 0, 4 Prunus Amygdalus Dulcis (Sweet Almond) Oil 0, 1-3 Cetyl Alcohol emollient, viscosity controlling 2, 2 Retinyl Palmitate cell-communicating ingredient 1-3, 1-3 Phenoxyethanol preservative Sodium Citrate chelating, buffering Carbomer viscosity controlling Fragrance perfuming icky 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. 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 properties of low molecular weight or drying alcohols such as denat. alcohol. Fatty alcohols have a long oil-soluble (and thus emollient) tail part that makes them absolutely non-drying and non-irritating and are totally ok for the skin. A common functional ingredient that helps to keep the oil-loving and water-loving ingredients together (emulsifier), stabilizes and thickens the products. Chemically speaking, it is ethoxylated Cetearyl alcohol, meaning that some ethylene oxide is added to the fatty alcohol to increase the water-soluble part in the molecule. The result is that the mainly oil soluble, emollient fatty alcohol is converted to an emulsifier molecule that keeps oil and water mixed in creams. The number in the name of Ceteareth emulsifiers refers to the average number of ethylene oxide molecules added and 20 makes a good emulsifier. Tetrahexyldecyl Ascorbate is a stable, oil-soluble form of skincare big shot Vitamin C. If you do not know, why Vitamin C is such a big deal in skincare, click here and read all about it. We are massive vitamin C fans and have written about it in excruciating detail. So now, you know that Vitamin C is great and all, but it's really unstable and gives cosmetics companies many headaches. To solve this problem they came up with vitamin C derivatives, and one of them is Tetrahexyldecyl Ascorbate (let's call it THDA in short). It's a really promising candidate (see below), but while reading all the goodness about it in a minute, do not forget that derivatives not only have to be absorbed into the skin but also have to be converted to pure vitamin C (ascorbic acid or AA) and the efficacy of the conversion is often unknown. In addition, vitamin C's three magic properties (antioxidant, co what‑it‑does emollient | viscosity controlling | emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing irritancy, com. emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing antioxidant | skin brightening skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant emollient | emulsifying emollient | perfuming emollient | viscosity controlling chelating | buffering