AOC Skincare (Amelia Knight) Caffeine Eye Cream

AOC Skincare (Amelia Knight) Caffeine Eye Cream AOC Skincare (Amelia Knight) Caffeine Eye Cream ingredients explained: Aqua, Cetearyl Alcohol, Glycerin, Helianthus Annuus Seed Oil, Propylene Glycol, Vaccinium Myrtillus Seed Oil, Persea Gratissima Oil, Butyrospermum Parkii Butter, Squalane, Caffeine, Niacinamide, Shea Butter Ethyl Esters, Cetearyl Olivate, Phenoxyethanol, Sorbitan Olivate, Ammonium Acryloyldimethyltaurate/VP Copolymer, Behentrimonium Methosulfate, Potassium Cetyl Phosphate, Sodium Hyaluronate, Ethylhexylglycerin, Citric Acid, Tocopheryl Acetate, Sodium Gluconate Show all ingredients by function Aqua solvent Cetearyl Alcohol emollient, viscosity controlling, emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing 1, 2 Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Helianthus Annuus Seed Oil emollient goodie Propylene Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, solvent Vaccinium Myrtillus Seed Oil Persea Gratissima Oil antioxidant, emollient 0, 0-3 Butyrospermum Parkii Butter Squalane skin-identical ingredient, emollient 0, 1 Caffeine antioxidant, perfuming Niacinamide cell-communicating ingredient, skin brightening, anti-acne, moisturizer/​humectant Shea Butter Ethyl Esters Cetearyl Olivate emulsifying Phenoxyethanol preservative Sorbitan Olivate Ammonium Acryloyldimethyltaurate/VP Copolymer viscosity controlling Behentrimonium Methosulfate surfactant/​cleansing Potassium Cetyl Phosphate emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing Sodium Hyaluronate Ethylhexylglycerin Citric Acid buffering Tocopheryl Acetate antioxidant Sodium Gluconate chelating, moisturizer/​humectant 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. An extremely common multitasker ingredient that gives your skin a nice soft feel (emollient) and gives body to creams and lotions. It also helps to stabilize oil-water mixes (emulsions), though it does not function as an emulsifier in itself. Its typical use level in most cream type formulas is 2-3%. It’s a so-called fatty alcohol, a mix of cetyl and stearyl alcohol, other two emollient fatty alcohols. Though chemically speaking, it is alcohol (as in, it has an -OH group in its molecule), its properties are totally different from the properties of low molecular weight or drying alcohols such as denat. alcohol. Fatty alcohols have a long oil-soluble (and thus emollient) tail part that makes them absolutely non-drying and non-irritating and are totally ok for the skin. 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 Sunflower does not need a big intro as you probably use it in the kitchen as cooking oil, or you munch on the seeds as a healthy snack or you adore its big, beautiful yellow flower during the summer - or you do all of these and probably even more. And by even more we mean putting it all over your face as sunflower oil is one of the most commonly used plant oils in skincare. It’s a real oldie: expressed directly from the seeds, the oil is used not for hundreds but thousands of years. According to The National Sunflower Association, there is evidence that both the plant and its oil were used by American Indians in the area of Arizona and New Mexico about 3000 BC. Do the math: it's more than 5000 years – definitely an oldie. Our intro did get pretty big after all (sorry for that), so let's get to the point finally: sunflower oil - similar to other plant oils - is a great emollient that makes the skin smooth and nice and helps to keep it hydrated. It also protects the surface of the skin and enhances the damaged or irritated skin barrier. Leslie Bauman notes in Cos what‑it‑does emollient | viscosity controlling | emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing irritancy, com. skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant moisturizer/humectant | solvent antioxidant | emollient skin-identical ingredient | emollient antioxidant | perfuming cell-communicating ingredient | skin brightening | anti-acne | moisturizer/humectant surfactant/cleansing emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing chelating | moisturizer/humectant

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