Acure Resurfacing Amino Acid Serum

Acure Resurfacing Amino Acid Serum Acure Resurfacing Amino Acid Serum ingredients explained: Water, Betaine, Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice, Arginine, Serine, Alanine, Glycine, Threonine, Proline, Glutamic Acid, Lysine Hcl, Pca, Sodium PCA, Melia Azadirachta Flower Extract, Melia Azadirachta Leaf Extract, Sclerotium Gum, Xanthan Gum, Sodium Lactate, Hydroxyethylcellulose, Sodium Phytate, Ethylhexylglycerin, Potassium Sorbate, Sodium Benzoate Show all ingredients by function Water solvent Betaine moisturizer/​humectant goodie Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice soothing, moisturizer/​humectant Arginine skin-identical ingredient Serine Alanine Glycine Threonine Proline Glutamic Acid Lysine Hcl Pca skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant Sodium PCA 0, 0 Melia Azadirachta Flower Extract Melia Azadirachta Leaf Extract Sclerotium Gum viscosity controlling Xanthan Gum Sodium Lactate buffering, moisturizer/​humectant Hydroxyethylcellulose Sodium Phytate chelating Ethylhexylglycerin preservative Potassium Sorbate Sodium Benzoate 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 sugar beet-derived amino acid derivative with nice skin protection and moisturization properties. Betaine's special thing is being an osmolyte, a molecule that helps to control cell-water balance. It is also a natural osmoprotectant, meaning that it attracts water away from the protein surface and thus protects them from denaturation and increases their thermodynamic stability. It also gives sensorial benefits to the formula and when used in cleansers, it helps to make them milder and gentler. Aloe Vera is one of today’s magic plants. It does have some very nice properties indeed, though famous dermatologist Leslie Baumann warns us in her book that most of the evidence is anecdotal and the plant might be a bit overhyped. What research does confirm about Aloe is that it’s a great moisturizer and has several anti-inflammatory (among others contains salicylates, polysaccharides, magnesium lactate and C-glucosyl chromone) as well as some antibacterial components. It also helps wound healing and skin regeneration in general. All in all definitely a goodie. A semi-essential (infants cannot synthesize it, but adults can) amino acid that is one of the primary building blocks of hair keratin and skin collagen. It's a natural moisturizing factor, a skin hydrator and might also help to speed up wound healing. Arginine usually has a positive charge (cationic) that makes it substantive to skin and hair (those are more negatively charged surfaces) and an excellent film former. Thanks to the positive charge, it also creates a complex with AHAs (AHAs like to lose a hydrogen ion and be negatively charged, so the positive and the negative ions attract each other) that causes a "time-release AHA effect" and reduces the irritation associated with AHAs. Serine is an amino acid that most often comes to the formula as part of a moisturizing complex. It's a non-essential amino acid (meaning that our body can synthesize it) and serves as a water-binding ingredient. In general, amino acids are great skincare ingredients that play an important role in proper skin hydration but there is not much info out there about what specifically serine can do for the skin. A non-essential amino acid (a building block of skin proteins like collagen or elastin) that hydrates the skin. A non-essential amino acid (the building blocks of ski what‑it‑does moisturizer/humectant soothing | moisturizer/humectant skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. buffering | moisturizer/humectant

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