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APLB Amino Acid Peptide Facial Cream
APLB Amino Acid Peptide Facial Cream APLB Amino Acid Peptide Facial Cream ingredients explained: Water, Centella Asiatica Leaf Water, Glycerin, Cetyl Ethylhexanoate, Butylene Glycol, Polyglyceryl-3 Methylglucose Distearate, Arginine, SH-Oligopeptide-1(1,000Ppt
APLB Amino Acid Peptide Facial Cream APLB Amino Acid Peptide Facial Cream ingredients explained: Water, Centella Asiatica Leaf Water, Glycerin, Cetyl Ethylhexanoate, Butylene Glycol, Polyglyceryl-3 Methylglucose Distearate, Arginine, SH-Oligopeptide-1(1,000Ppt), Sodium Hyaluronate, Stearic Acid, Sodium Polyacryloyldimethyl Taurate, Hydrogenated Polydecene, Trideceth-10, Silica, Glyceryl Stearate, Beeswax, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter, Macadamia Ternifolia Seed Oil, Betaine, Trehalose, Citric Acid, Nelumbo Nucifera Extract, Artemisia Annua Extract, Oryza Sativa (Rice) Extract, Saccharomyces Ferment, Solanum Melongena (Eggplant) Fruit Extract, Melaleuca Alternifolia (Tea Tree) Leaf Extract, Hydrolyzed Collagen, Squalane, Beta-Glucan, Dipropylene Glycol, Hippophae Rhamnoides Fruit Extract, Madecassic Acid, Asiaticoside, Asiatic Acid, Disodium EDTA, Propanediol, Hydroxyacetophenone, 1,2-Hexanediol, Ethylhexylglycerin, Dipotassium Glycyrrhizate Show all ingredients by function Water solvent Centella Asiatica Leaf Water Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/humectant 0, 0 superstar Cetyl Ethylhexanoate emollient Butylene Glycol moisturizer/humectant, solvent 0, 1 Polyglyceryl-3 Methylglucose Distearate emulsifying Arginine skin-identical ingredient goodie SH-Oligopeptide-1(1,000Ppt) cell-communicating ingredient Sodium Hyaluronate Stearic Acid emollient, viscosity controlling 0, 2-3 Sodium Polyacryloyldimethyl Taurate viscosity controlling Hydrogenated Polydecene emollient, perfuming, solvent Trideceth-10 surfactant/cleansing Silica Glyceryl Stearate emollient, emulsifying Beeswax emollient, viscosity controlling, emulsifying, perfuming 0, 0-2 Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter Macadamia Ternifolia Seed Oil Betaine moisturizer/humectant Trehalose Citric Acid buffering Nelumbo Nucifera Extract Artemisia Annua Extract Oryza Sativa (Rice) Extract abrasive/scrub Saccharomyces Ferment Solanum Melongena (Eggplant) Fruit Extract Melaleuca Alternifolia (Tea Tree) Leaf Extract antimicrobial/antibacterial, perfuming Hydrolyzed Collagen emollient, moisturizer/humectant Squalane skin-identical ingredient, emollient Beta-Glucan soothing, moisturizer/humectant Dipropylene Glycol Hippophae Rhamnoides Fruit Extract Madecassic Acid Asiaticoside antioxidant, perfuming Asiatic Acid Disodium EDTA chelating Propanediol solvent, moisturizer/humectant Hydroxyacetophenone antioxidant, preservative 1,2-Hexanediol Ethylhexylglycerin preservative Dipotassium Glycyrrhizate 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. We don't have description for this ingredient yet. 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 An odorless and colorless emollient ester (cetyl alcohol + ethylhexanoic acid) that gives a velvety and silky feel to the skin. It has great spreadability and a non-oily feel. It's a popular ingredient in makeup removers. 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 whose safety hasn’t been questioned so far by anyone (at least not that we know about). BG is approved by Ecocert and is also used enthusiastically in natural products. BTW, it’s also a food additive. A vegetable-based emulsifier that helps the oily and watery parts of the formula to mix nicely together. It is compatible with a bunch of cosmetic oils as well as active ingredients and its specialty is creating emulsions with super high heat and freeze stability (from -25 °C and +50 °C). 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" what‑it‑does skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. moisturizer/humectant | solvent emollient | viscosity controlling emollient | perfuming | solvent surfactant/cleansing emollient | emulsifying emollient | viscosity controlling | emulsifying | perfuming moisturizer/humectant abrasive/scrub antimicrobial/antibacterial | perfuming emollient | moisturizer/humectant skin-identical ingredient | emollient soothing | moisturizer/humectant antioxidant | perfuming solvent | moisturizer/humectant antioxidant | preservative