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Dime Beauty Super Firm Serum Versus Timeless Skin Care Matrixyl 3000 Serum

Dime Beauty Super Firm Serum Versus Timeless Skin Care Matrixyl 3000 Serum This anti-aging serum is formulated around Palmitoyl Tripeptide-38 to soften the look of wrinkles and refine skin texture. This anti-aging serum is formulated around Palmitoyl Tripeptid

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Dime Beauty Super Firm Serum Versus Timeless Skin Care Matrixyl 3000 Serum

This anti-aging serum is formulated around Palmitoyl Tripeptide-38 to soften the look of wrinkles and refine skin texture.

This anti-aging serum is formulated around Palmitoyl Tripeptide-1 and Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-7 to soften the look of wrinkles and refine skin texture.

What's inside

Key Ingredients

Benefits

Concerns

Ingredients Side-by-side

Water

Acacia Senegal Gum

Pentylene Glycol

Propanediol

Butylene Glycol

Glycerin

Dipentaerythrityl Hexa C5-9 Acid Esters

Sea Water

Pullulan

1,2-Hexanediol

Hydroxyacetophenone

Hydrolyzed Rhizobian Gum

Xanthan Gum

Sclerotium Gum

Lecithin

Sodium Stearoyl Glutamate

Sorbitan Laurate

Dipotassium Glycyrrhizate

Niacinamide

Sodium Phytate

Olea Europaea Fruit Unsaponifiables

Palmitoyl Hexapeptide-19

Silica

Hydroxyethylcellulose

Acetyl Dipeptide-1 Cetyl Ester

Hydrolyzed Rhodophyceae Extract

Cyclodextrin

Leucojum Aestivum Bulb Extract

Palmitoyl Tripeptide-38

Water, Acacia Senegal Gum, Pentylene Glycol, Propanediol, Butylene Glycol, Glycerin, Dipentaerythrityl Hexa C5-9 Acid Esters, Sea Water, Pullulan, 1,2-Hexanediol, Hydroxyacetophenone, Hydrolyzed Rhizobian Gum, Xanthan Gum, Sclerotium Gum, Lecithin, Sodium Stearoyl Glutamate, Sorbitan Laurate, Dipotassium Glycyrrhizate, Niacinamide, Sodium Phytate, Olea Europaea Fruit Unsaponifiables, Palmitoyl Hexapeptide-19, Silica, Hydroxyethylcellulose, Acetyl Dipeptide-1 Cetyl Ester, Hydrolyzed Rhodophyceae Extract, Cyclodextrin, Leucojum Aestivum Bulb Extract, Palmitoyl Tripeptide-38

Carbomer

Polysorbate 20

Palmitoyl Tripeptide-1

Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-7

Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Extract

Hyaluronic Acid

Benzyl Alcohol

Dehydroacetic Acid

Water, Glycerin, Butylene Glycol, Carbomer, Polysorbate 20, Palmitoyl Tripeptide-1, Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-7, Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Extract, Hyaluronic Acid, Benzyl Alcohol, Dehydroacetic Acid

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Ingredients Explained

These ingredients are found in both products.

Ingredients higher up in an ingredient list are typically present in a larger amount.

Butylene Glycol (or BG) is used within cosmetic products for a few different reasons:

Overall, Butylene Glycol is a safe and well-rounded ingredient that works well with other ingredients.

Though this ingredient works well with most skin types, some people with sensitive skin may experience a reaction such as allergic rashes, closed comedones, or itchiness.

Glycerin (or glycerol) is a compound naturally found in your skin. It's a powerhouse humectant that pulls water into the stratum corneum.

Topically, glycerin does several things at once:

Your skin makes glycerin on its own (mostly from sebaceous oil breakdown) and shuttles it to your outermost layer of skin, or your epidermis, via aquaporin-3.

Aquaporin-3 is a transporter that is essential for normal skin hydration, elasticity, and repair. Interestingly, mice lacking in AQP3 have dry and less elastic skin that can be fully corrected with glycerin.

This ingredient is non-irritating, plays well with almost every ingredient, and works across all skin types. Typical use is anywhere between 3-10% but can go up to 79% in some leave-on products.

Just know very high concentrations (>40%) can feel tacky in low humidity.

Glycerin is the name for this ingredient in American English. British English uses Glycerol/Glycerine.

Water. It's the most common cosmetic ingredient of all. You'll usually see it at the top of ingredient lists, meaning that it makes up the largest part of the product.

So why is it so popular? Water most often acts as a solvent - this means that it helps dissolve other ingredients into the formulation.

You'll also recognize water as that liquid we all need to stay alive. If you see this, drink a glass of water. Remember to stay hydrated!

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Ingredients & structured notes

Ingredient index

Ingredients Explained

  1. 01These ingredients are found in both products.
  2. 02Ingredients higher up in an ingredient list are typically present in a larger amount.
  3. 03Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Extract is a botanical extract pulled from the leaves of aloe vera and one of the most studied plant ingredients in cosmetics.
  4. 04The inner leaf gel it comes from is mostly water (~99-99.5%) and the remaining fraction is made up of pretty good stuff: polysaccharides, vitamins, phenolics, and enzymes.
  5. 05Its headline job is hydration.
  6. 06The star polysaccharide in aloe, acemannan, is a humectant that retains moisture and helps reduce trans-epidermal water loss.
  7. 07Aloe also has real soothing credentials; it contains anti-inflammatory compounds like bradykinase and C-glucosyl chromone that help calm irritation and redness.
  8. 08On the repair side, lab work shows that acemannan wakes up your skin's repair cells (fibroblasts), prompting them to multiply and speed up healing.
  9. 09There's some human data for cosmetic benefit too: a cream containing 10% Aloe Barbadensis leaf extract improved skin hydration and elasticity in a real-use study.
  10. 10Safety-wise, this ingredient is well-regarded with just one rare downside; there have been some case reports of acute eczema, contact urticaria, and dermatitis in people who applied aloe-derived ingredients topically. Those with a known aloe or Lili…
  11. 11Typical use levels range widely, from under 1% up to 90%+ depending on the format and the effect you are after.
  12. 12Benzyl Alcohol is an aromatic alcohol with several roles: it's a preservative, solvent, and mild fragrance component with a floral scent.
  13. 13This ingredient has been deemed safe for use in cosmetic formulations at concentrations up to 5%, and up to 10% in hair dyes. You'll typically see 0.5-2% in most rinse-off or leave-on products.
  14. 14As a preservative, it works by disrupting the membrane of microbial proteins. This helps keep bacteria and fungi from growing in your products.
  15. 15The sensitization picture is actually quite assuring as well:of nearly 71,000 patients patch tested with benzyl alcohol, only 0.21% showed a positive reaction with most of them being weakly positive.
  16. 16This led researchers to conclude that benzyl alcohol cannot be regarded as a significant contact allergen.
  17. 17It is worth noting this ingredient is classified as one of the EU's regulated fragrance allergens and restricted to 1% in finished products.
  18. 18Labels must also declare it in concentrations above 0.001% in leave-on products and 0.01% in rinse-off products.
  19. 19At concentrations around 5%, localized redness and itching can appear as a direct irritant response and not as a true allergic reaction.
  20. 20Dehydroacetic Acid is a synthetic preservative that keeps your products safe from microbes.
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