Azure Vitamin C & Hyaluronic Acid Serum

Azure Vitamin C & Hyaluronic Acid Serum Azure Vitamin C & Hyaluronic Acid Serum ingredients explained: Water, Glycerin, Dipropylene Glycol, Betaine, Phenoxyethanol, PEG-60 Hydrogenated Castor Oil, Hydroxyethylcellulose, Arginine, Carbomer, Niacinamide, Glyceryl Acrylate/Acrylic Acid Copolymer, Sodium Hyaluronate, Ethylhexylglycerin, Panthenol, 1,2-Hexanediol, Fragrance, Ascorbic Acid, Beta-Glucan, Hyaluronic Acid, Hydrolyzed Hyaluronic Acid, Hydrolyzed Sodium Hyaluronate, Sodium Hyaluronate Crosspolymer, Pentylene Glycol Show all ingredients by function Water solvent Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Dipropylene Glycol Betaine moisturizer/​humectant goodie Phenoxyethanol preservative PEG-60 Hydrogenated Castor Oil emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing Hydroxyethylcellulose viscosity controlling Arginine skin-identical ingredient Carbomer 0, 1 Niacinamide cell-communicating ingredient, skin brightening, anti-acne, moisturizer/​humectant Glyceryl Acrylate/Acrylic Acid Copolymer moisturizer/​humectant, viscosity controlling Sodium Hyaluronate Ethylhexylglycerin Panthenol soothing, moisturizer/​humectant 1,2-Hexanediol Fragrance perfuming icky Ascorbic Acid antioxidant, skin brightening, buffering Beta-Glucan Hyaluronic Acid Hydrolyzed Hyaluronic Acid Hydrolyzed Sodium Hyaluronate Sodium Hyaluronate Crosspolymer skin-identical ingredient, antioxidant, moisturizer/​humectant Pentylene Glycol solvent, 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. 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 clear, colorless liquid that works as a solvent and viscosity decreasing ingredient. It also has great skin-moisturizing abilities. 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. It’s pretty much the current IT-preservative. It’s safe and gentle, but even more importantly, it’s not a feared-by-everyone-mostly-without-scientific-reason paraben. It’s not something new: it was introduced around 1950 and today it can be used up to 1% worldwide. It can be found in nature - in green tea - but the version used in cosmetics is synthetic. Other than having a good safety profile and being quite gentle to the skin it has some other advantages too. It can be used in many types of formulations as it has great thermal stability (can be heated up to 85°C) and works on a wide range of pH levels (ph 3-10). It’s often used together with ethylhexylglycerin as it nicely improves the preservative activity of phenoxyethanol. A castor oil derived, white, lard-like helper ingredient that is used as a solubilizer to put fragrances (those are oil loving things) into water-based products such as toners. A nice little helper ingredient that can thicken up cosmetic products and create beautiful gel formulas. It's derived from cellulose, the major component of the cell wall of green plants. It is compatible with most co-ingredients and gives a very good slip to the formulas. A semi-essential (infants canno what‑it‑does skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. moisturizer/humectant emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing cell-communicating ingredient | skin brightening | anti-acne | moisturizer/humectant moisturizer/humectant | viscosity controlling soothing | moisturizer/humectant antioxidant | skin brightening | buffering skin-identical ingredient | antioxidant | moisturizer/humectant solvent | moisturizer/humectant

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