Avatara Vitamin C Brightening Hydrogel Mask

Avatara Vitamin C Brightening Hydrogel Mask Avatara Vitamin C Brightening Hydrogel Mask ingredients explained: Water/Aqua/Eau, Glycerin, 1,2-Hexanediol, Agar, Ascorbic Acid, Sodium Ascorbyl Phosphate, Citrus Limon (Lemon) Fruit Extract, Citrus Aurantifolia (Lime) Fruit Extract, Citrus Paradisi (Grapefruit) Fruit Extract, Pyrus Malus (Apple) Fruit Extract, Portulaca Oleracea Extract, Sucrose, Allantoin, Ethylhexylglycerin, Dipotassium Glycyrrhizate, 3-0-Ethyl Ascorbic Acid, Butylene Glycol, Xanthan Gum, Ceratonia Siliqua (Carob) Gum, Carrageenan, Iron Oxides (Ci 77492) Show all ingredients by function Water/Aqua/Eau solvent Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar 1,2-Hexanediol Agar viscosity controlling Ascorbic Acid antioxidant, skin brightening, buffering Sodium Ascorbyl Phosphate antioxidant, anti-acne goodie Citrus Limon (Lemon) Fruit Extract Citrus Aurantifolia (Lime) Fruit Extract Citrus Paradisi (Grapefruit) Fruit Extract Pyrus Malus (Apple) Fruit Extract moisturizer/​humectant Portulaca Oleracea Extract soothing, antioxidant Sucrose moisturizer/​humectant, soothing Allantoin soothing Ethylhexylglycerin preservative Dipotassium Glycyrrhizate soothing, moisturizer/​humectant 3-0-Ethyl Ascorbic Acid antioxidant, skin brightening Butylene Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, solvent 0, 1 Xanthan Gum Ceratonia Siliqua (Carob) Gum emollient, viscosity controlling Carrageenan Iron Oxides (Ci 77492) colorant 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 really multi-functional helper ingredient that can do several things in a skincare product: it can bring a soft and pleasant feel to the formula, it can act as a humectant and emollient, it can be a solvent for some other ingredients (for example it can help to stabilize perfumes in watery products) and it can also help to disperse pigments more evenly in makeup products. And that is still not all: it can also boost the antimicrobial activity of preservatives. We don't have description for this ingredient yet. Works best between a concentration of 5-20% Boosts the skin’s own collagen production Fades pigmentation and brown spots If used under sunscreen it boosts its UV protection Extremely unstable and oxidizes very easily in presence of light or air Stable in solutions with water only if pH is less than 3.5 or in waterless formulations Vit E + C work in synergy and provide superb photoprotection Ferulic acid doubles the photoprotection effect of Vit C+E and helps to stabilize Vit C Potent Vit. C serums might cause a slight tingling on sensitive skin The sodium salt form of skincare superstar, vitamin C. If you do not know what the big fuss about vitamin C is, you are missing out and you have to click here and read all the geeky details about it. Pure vitamin C (aka ascorbic acid, AA) is great and all, but its lack of stability is a big challenge for the cosmetics industry. One solution is to create stable derivatives that can be absorbed into the skin, convert there to AA and do all the magic AA is proven to do (which is being an antioxidant, a collagen booster, and a skin brightener). SAP (the vit C derivative, not the enterprise software, obvs) is a promising derivative that has great stability up to pH 7. The challenge with it though is skin penetration. Unfortunately, it seems to be limited, or to quote a great artic what‑it‑does skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. antioxidant | skin brightening | buffering antioxidant | anti-acne moisturizer/humectant soothing | antioxidant moisturizer/humectant | soothing soothing | moisturizer/humectant antioxidant | skin brightening moisturizer/humectant | solvent emollient | viscosity controlling

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