Skin Functional Co-enzyme Q10 + Peptides

Skin Functional Co-enzyme Q10 + Peptides Skin Functional Co-enzyme Q10 + Peptides ingredients explained: Aqua, Capric/Caprylic Triglycerides, Butylene Glycol, Coco-Caprylate/Caprate, Squalane, Dimethyl Isosorbide, Ethoxydiglycol, Polysorbate 20, Glycerin, Glyceryl Polyacrylate, Ubiquinone, Tetrahexyldecyl Ascorbate, Sodium Acrylates Crosspolymer, Tocopherol, Palmitoyl Tripeptide-1, Butylene Glycol, Caprylyl Glycol, C12-20 Alkyl Glucoside, Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-7, C14-22 Alcohols, Lecithin, Sodium Acrylates Copolymer, Carbomer, Phenoxyethanol, Ethylhexylglycerin Show all ingredients by function Aqua solvent Capric/Caprylic Triglycerides emollient Butylene Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, solvent 0, 1 Coco-Caprylate/Caprate Squalane skin-identical ingredient, emollient goodie Dimethyl Isosorbide solvent, viscosity controlling Ethoxydiglycol solvent, moisturizer/​humectant, perfuming 0, 0 Polysorbate 20 emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant superstar Glyceryl Polyacrylate Ubiquinone antioxidant Tetrahexyldecyl Ascorbate antioxidant, skin brightening Sodium Acrylates Crosspolymer viscosity controlling Tocopherol 0-3, 0-3 Palmitoyl Tripeptide-1 cell-communicating ingredient Caprylyl Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, emollient C12-20 Alkyl Glucoside Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-7 C14-22 Alcohols Lecithin emollient, emulsifying Sodium Acrylates Copolymer Carbomer Phenoxyethanol preservative Ethylhexylglycerin 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. Butylene glycol, or let’s just call it BG, is a multi-tasking colorless, syrupy liquid. It’s a great pick for creating a nice feeling product. BG’s main job is usually to be a solvent for the other ingredients. Other tasks include helping the product to absorb faster and deeper into the skin (penetration enhancer), making the product spread nicely over the skin (slip agent), and attracting water (humectant) into the skin. It’s an ingredient whose safety hasn’t been questioned so far by anyone (at least not that we know about). BG is approved by Ecocert and is also used enthusiastically in natural products. BTW, it’s also a food additive. A light emollient ester (C8-10 fatty acids connected to C12-18 fatty alcohols) that absorbs quickly and leaves a dry but silky finish on the skin. In terms of skin feel, it is similar to Dicaprylyl Carbonate, another commonly used light emollient. It seems to us that squalane is in fashion and there is a reason for it. Chemically speaking, it is a saturated (no double bonds) hydrocarbon (a molecule consisting only of carbon and hydrogen), meaning that it's a nice and stable oily liquid with a long shelf life. It occurs naturally in certain fish and plant oils (e.g. olive), and in the sebum (the oily stuff our skin produces) of the human skin. As f.c. puts it in his awesome blog post, squalane's main things are "emolliency, surface occlusion, and TEWL prevention all with extreme cosmetic elegance". In other words, it's a superb moisturizer that makes your skin nice and smooth, without being heavy or greasy. Another advantage of squalane is that it is pretty much compatible with all skin types and skin conditions. It is excellent for acne-prone skin and safe to use even if you have fungi-related skin issues, like seborrhea or fungal acne. The unsaturated (with double bonds) and hence less stable version of Squalane is Squalene, you can read about it here >> A little helper ingredient that can boost the performance and enhance the delivery of active ingredients what‑it‑does moisturizer/humectant | solvent irritancy, com. skin-identical ingredient | emollient solvent | viscosity controlling solvent | moisturizer/humectant | perfuming emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant antioxidant | skin brightening moisturizer/humectant | emollient emollient | emulsifying