Truly Pure Peptide Smoothing Face Serum

Truly Pure Peptide Smoothing Face Serum Truly Pure Peptide Smoothing Face Serum ingredients explained: Aqua (Water), Propylene Glycol, Glycerin, PEG-16 Macadamia Glycerides, Benzyl Alcohol, Benzoic Acid, Dehydroacetic Acid, Tocopherol, Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer, Butylene Glycol, Oryza Sativa (Rice) Extract, Glycine Max, (Soybean Seed Extract, Daucus Carota Sativa (Carot) Root Extract, Chenopodium Quinoa Seed Extract, Panax Ginseng Root Extract Show all ingredients by function Aqua (Water) solvent Propylene Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, solvent 0, 0 Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant superstar PEG-16 Macadamia Glycerides emollient, emulsifying Benzyl Alcohol preservative, perfuming, solvent, viscosity controlling Benzoic Acid preservative Dehydroacetic Acid Tocopherol antioxidant 0-3, 0-3 goodie Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer viscosity controlling Butylene Glycol 0, 1 Oryza Sativa (Rice) Extract abrasive/​scrub Glycine Max (Soybean Seed Extract antioxidant, skin brightening, soothing, emollient Daucus Carota Sativa (Carot) Root Extract antioxidant, emollient Chenopodium Quinoa Seed Extract Panax Ginseng Root 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. 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) A natural moisturizer that’s also in our skin A super common, safe, effective and cheap molecule used for more than 50 years Not only a simple moisturizer but knows much more: keeps the skin lipids between our skin cells in a healthy (liquid crystal) state, protects against irritation, helps to restore barrier Effective from as low as 3% with even more benefits for dry skin at higher concentrations up to 20-40% High-glycerin moisturizers are awesome for treating severely dry skin We don't have description for this ingredient yet. It's one of those things that help your cosmetics not to go wrong too soon, aka a preservative. It can be naturally found in fruits and teas but can also be made synthetically. No matter the origin, in small amounts (up to 1%) it’s a nice, gentle preservative. Has to be combined with some other nice preservatives, like potassium sorbate to be broad spectrum enough. In high amounts, it can be a skin irritant, but don’t worry, it’s never used in high amounts. An Ecocert-approved, natural preservative that counts as gentle and non-irritating to the skin. Usually, it comes to the formula as part of a preservative blend as it's not enough on its own. A helper ingredient that helps to make the products stay nice longer, aka preservative. It works mainly against fungi and has only milder effect against bacteria. It is Ecocert and Cosmos approved, works quite well at low concentrations (0.1-0.6%) and is popular in natural products. Primary fat-soluble antioxidant in our skin Significant photoprotection against UVB rays Vit C + Vit E work in synergy and provide great photoprotection Has emollient properties Easy to formulate, stable and relatively inexpensive 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 monome what‑it‑does moisturizer/humectant | solvent irritancy, com. skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant emollient | emulsifying preservative | perfuming | solvent | viscosity controlling abrasive/scrub antioxidant | skin brightening | soothing | emollient antioxidant | emollient