Witchcraft Botanicals Peptide Brightening Eye Cream

Witchcraft Botanicals Peptide Brightening Eye Cream Witchcraft Botanicals Peptide Brightening Eye Cream ingredients explained: Organic Rosa Damascena Water, Organic Simmondsia Chinensis Seed Oil, Organic Rosa Canina Seed Extract, Glycerin, Pisum Sativum Peptide, Borago Officinalis Seed Oil, Camellia Oleifera Seed Oil, Nigella Sativa Seed Oil, Cetearyl Olivate, Sorbitan Olivate, Hexapeptide-11, Panthenol, Dehydroacetic Acid, Xanthan Gum, Benzyl Alcohol, Aqua, Acacia Dealbata Flower Extract, Leuconostoc/Radish Root Ferment Filtrate, Benzyl Benzoate Show all ingredients by function Organic Rosa Damascena Water Organic Simmondsia Chinensis Seed Oil emollient 0, 0-2 goodie Organic Rosa Canina Seed Extract emollient, moisturizer/​humectant Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Pisum Sativum Peptide Borago Officinalis Seed Oil soothing, emollient Camellia Oleifera Seed Oil Nigella Sativa Seed Oil soothing, antioxidant, emollient, perfuming Cetearyl Olivate emulsifying Sorbitan Olivate Hexapeptide-11 Panthenol soothing, moisturizer/​humectant Dehydroacetic Acid preservative Xanthan Gum viscosity controlling Benzyl Alcohol preservative, perfuming, solvent, viscosity controlling Aqua solvent Acacia Dealbata Flower Extract Leuconostoc/Radish Root Ferment Filtrate antimicrobial/​antibacterial, preservative Benzyl Benzoate solvent, perfuming, antimicrobial/​antibacterial icky The flower water coming from the flowers of the Damask Rose. In general, flower waters (also called hydrosols) are diluted versions of essential oils coming from the same plant. They contain the same components but in much-reduced concentrations. Similar to its big sister, rose oil, rose water also has a lovely, relaxing scent. It contains some antioxidant and antimicrobial compounds, as well as some fragrant components. Expand to read more If your skin is super sensitive, it is a good idea to choose products without fragrant floral waters. Jojoba is a drought resistant evergreen shrub native to South-western North America. It's known and grown for jojoba oil, the golden yellow liquid coming from the seeds (about 50% of the weight of the seeds will be oil). At first glance, it seems like your average emollient plant oil: it looks like an oil and it's nourishing and moisturizing to the skin but if we dig a bit deeper, it turns out that jojoba oil is really special and unique: technically - or rather chemically - it's not an oil but a wax ester (and calling it an oil is kind of sloppy). So what the heck is a wax ester and why is that important anyway? Well, to understand what a wax ester is, you first have to know that oils are chemically triglycerides: one glycerin + three fatty acids attached to it. The fatty acids attached to the glycerin vary and thus we have many kinds of oils, but they are all triglycerides. Mother Nature created triglycerides to be easily hydrolyzed (be broken down to a glycerin + 3 fatty acid molecules) and oxidized (the fatty acid is broken down into small parts) - this happens basically when we eat fats or oils and our body generates energy from it. Mother Nature also created wax esters but for a totally different purpose. Chemically, a wax ester is a fatty acid + a fatty alcohol, one long molecule. Wax esters are on the outer surface of several plant leaves to give them environmental protection. 25-30% of human sebum is also wax esters to give us people environmental protection. So being a wax ester results in a couple of unique properties: First, jojoba oil is extremely stable. Like crazy stable. Even if you heat it to 370 C (698 F) for 96 hours, it does not budge. (Many plant oils tend to go off pretty quickly). If you have some pure jojoba oil at home, you should be fine using it for years. Second, jojoba oil is the most similar to human sebum (both being wax esters), and the two are completely miscible. Acne.org has this not fully proven theory that thanks to this, jojoba might be able to "trick" the skin into thinking it has already produced enough sebum, so it might have "skin balancing" properties for oily skin. Third, jojoba oil moisturizes the skin through a unique dual action: on the one hand, it mixes with sebum and forms a thin, non-greasy, semi-occlusive layer; on the other hand, it absorbs into the skin through pores and hair follicles then diffuses into the intercellular spaces of the outer layer of the sk what‑it‑does irritancy, com. emollient | moisturizer/humectant skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant soothing | emollient soothing | antioxidant | emollient | perfuming soothing | moisturizer/humectant preservative | perfuming | solvent | viscosity controlling antimicrobial/antibacterial | preservative solvent | perfuming | antimicrobial/antibacterial