Active Formulas Super Peptide Serum

Active Formulas Super Peptide Serum Active Formulas Super Peptide Serum ingredients explained: Aqua, Glycerin, Pentylene Glycol, Sodium PCA, Phenoxyethanol, Butylene Glycol, Hydroxyethylcellulose, 1, 2-Hexanediol, Ethylhexylglycerin, Sodium Gluconate, Polysorbate 20, Carbomer, Sodium Lactate, Copper Tripeptide-1, Acetyl Hexapeptide-8, Palmitoyl Tripeptide-5, Citric Acid, Palmitoyl Tripeptide-1, Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-7 Show all ingredients by function Aqua solvent Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Pentylene Glycol solvent, moisturizer/​humectant Sodium PCA goodie Phenoxyethanol preservative Butylene Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, solvent 0, 1 Hydroxyethylcellulose viscosity controlling 1, 2-Hexanediol Ethylhexylglycerin Sodium Gluconate chelating, moisturizer/​humectant Polysorbate 20 emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing Carbomer Sodium Lactate buffering, moisturizer/​humectant Copper Tripeptide-1 cell-communicating ingredient, soothing, antioxidant Acetyl Hexapeptide-8 cell-communicating ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant Palmitoyl Tripeptide-5 cell-communicating ingredient Citric Acid buffering Palmitoyl Tripeptide-1 Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-7 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 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 A multi-functional, silky feeling helper ingredient that can do quite many things. It's used as an emulsion stabilizer, solvent and a broad spectrum antimicrobial. According to manufacturer info, it's also a moisturizer and helps to make the product feel great on the skin. It works synergistically with preservatives and helps to improve water-resistance of sunscreens. PCA stands for Pyrrolidone Carboxylic Acid and though it might not sound like it, it is a thing that can be found naturally in our skin. The sodium salt form of PCA is an important skin-identical ingredient and great natural moisturizer that helps the skin to hold onto water and stay nicely hydrated. It’s pretty much the current IT-preservative. It’s safe and gentle, but even more importantly, it’s not a feared-by-everyone-mostly-without-scientific-reason paraben. It’s not something new: it was introduced around 1950 and today it can be used up to 1% worldwide. It can be found in nature - in green tea - but the version used in cosmetics is synthetic. Other than having a good safety profile and being quite gentle to the skin it has some other advantages too. It can be used in many types of formulations as it has great thermal stability (can be heated up to 85°C) and works on a wide range of pH levels (ph 3-10). It’s often used together with ethylhexylglycerin as it nicely improves the preservative activity of phenoxyethanol. 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 what‑it‑does skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. solvent | moisturizer/humectant moisturizer/humectant | solvent chelating | moisturizer/humectant emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing buffering | moisturizer/humectant cell-communicating ingredient | soothing | antioxidant cell-communicating ingredient | moisturizer/humectant

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