AUS MEDIC CO. Illuminating Peptide Moisturiser

AUS MEDIC CO. Illuminating Peptide Moisturiser AUS MEDIC CO. Illuminating Peptide Moisturiser ingredients explained: Aqua (Water), Glycerin, Carnosine, Aloe Barbadensis (Aloe Vera) Leaf Juice, C13-15 Alkane (Naturally Derived), Heptapeptide-7, Propanediol, Lecithin, Citric Acid, Sodium Hyaluronate, Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C), Tocopherol (Natural Vitamin E), Saccharide Isomerate, Sodium Citrate, Davidsonia Jerseyana (Davidson Plum) Fruit Extract, Terminalia Ferdinandiana (Kakadu Plum) Extract, Santalum Acuminatum (Quandong) Extract, Podocarpus Elatus (Illawarra Plum) Extract, Pleiogynium Timorense (Burdekin Plum) Extract, Allantoin, Sodium PCA, Cetearyl Olivate, Sorbitan Olivate, Cetyl Palmitate, Sorbitan Palmitate, Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Oil, Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Oil, Olea Europaea (Olive) Oil, Beta-Carotene, Potassium Sorbate, Sodium Benzoate, Synthetic Fluorphlogopite, Titanium Dioxide, Xanthan Gum, Carbomer, Fragrance (Natural), Sodium Gluconate, Sodium Hydroxide, Benzyl Alcohol, Dehydroacetic Acid Show all ingredients by function Aqua (Water) solvent Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Carnosine antioxidant, cell-communicating ingredient goodie Aloe Barbadensis (Aloe Vera) Leaf Juice soothing, moisturizer/​humectant C13-15 Alkane (Naturally Derived) solvent, emollient Heptapeptide-7 Propanediol solvent, moisturizer/​humectant Lecithin emollient, emulsifying Citric Acid buffering Sodium Hyaluronate Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C) antioxidant, skin brightening, buffering Tocopherol (Natural Vitamin E) antioxidant 0-3, 0-3 Saccharide Isomerate moisturizer/​humectant Sodium Citrate chelating, buffering Davidsonia Jerseyana (Davidson Plum) Fruit Extract antioxidant, moisturizer/​humectant Terminalia Ferdinandiana (Kakadu Plum) Extract antioxidant, skin brightening Santalum Acuminatum (Quandong) Extract Podocarpus Elatus (Illawarra Plum) Extract Pleiogynium Timorense (Burdekin Plum) Extract Allantoin soothing Sodium PCA Cetearyl Olivate emulsifying Sorbitan Olivate Cetyl Palmitate emollient Sorbitan Palmitate Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Oil Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Oil emollient, perfuming 0, 4 Olea Europaea (Olive) Oil antioxidant, emollient 0, 0-2 Beta-Carotene Potassium Sorbate preservative Sodium Benzoate Synthetic Fluorphlogopite viscosity controlling Titanium Dioxide sunscreen, colorant Xanthan Gum Carbomer 0, 1 Fragrance (Natural) perfuming icky Sodium Gluconate chelating, moisturizer/​humectant Sodium Hydroxide Benzyl Alcohol preservative, perfuming, solvent, viscosity controlling Dehydroacetic Acid 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 Though its name does not reveal it, Carnosine is a peptide, a small, two amino acid (β-Ala-His) one. It is naturally present in high concentrations in muscle and brain tissues, but the one used in cosmetic products is biomimetic, meaning that it is synthetically produced in a lab to copy the natural thing. A 2017 review paper on topical peptides writes about Carnosine that it is a "well-documented aqueous antioxidant with wound healing activity". Other than that we can write about manufacturer-done in-vitro (in the lab, not on real people) studies that show Carnosine to have anti-glycation properties. Glycation is the not-so-nice process that happens when we bombard our body with too much sugar that results in damaged body proteins and eventually in more wrinkles. Also, a manufacturer done in vitro study shows that carnosine might have collagen-boosing magic power. However, the 2017 research paper also mentions that even though Carnosine is a small molecule, it is water soluble and does not penetrate the skin past the top layers so we have some doubt if the collagen-boosting works in real life. We could find one anti-aging study made on real people that mentions Carnosine, but it was combined with a bunch of other anti-aging actives so it is pretty much impossible to know what Carnosine did or did not. One last thing to mention is that there is also a manufacturer done clinical study (done on real people) that shows carnosine being effective against the damages caused by infrared (IR) radiation. (source) 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-i what‑it‑does skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. antioxidant | cell-communicating ingredient soothing | moisturizer/humectant solvent | emollient solvent | moisturizer/humectant emollient | emulsifying antioxidant | skin brightening | buffering moisturizer/humectant chelating | buffering antioxidant | moisturizer/humectant antioxidant | skin brightening emollient | perfuming antioxidant | emollient sunscreen | colorant chelating | moisturizer/humectant preservative | perfuming | solvent | viscosity controlling

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