BALANCE active formula Dragon's Blood Instant Lifting Serum

BALANCE active formula Dragon's Blood Instant Lifting Serum BALANCE active formula Dragon's Blood Instant Lifting Serum ingredients explained: Aqua/Water, Glycerin, Hydroxypropyl Methylcellulose, Pullulan, Phenoxyethanol, Chondrus Crispus (Carrageenan) Powder, Porphyridium Cruentum Extract, Disodium EDTA, Ethylhexylglycerin, Tocopheryl Acetate, Parfum/Fragrance, Croton Lechleri (Dragons Blood) Resin Extract, Potassium Sorbate, Sorbic Acid Show all ingredients by function Aqua/Water solvent Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Hydroxypropyl Methylcellulose surfactant/​cleansing, viscosity controlling 0, 1 Pullulan Phenoxyethanol preservative Chondrus Crispus (Carrageenan) Powder abrasive/​scrub Porphyridium Cruentum Extract Disodium EDTA chelating Ethylhexylglycerin Tocopheryl Acetate antioxidant Parfum/Fragrance perfuming icky Croton Lechleri (Dragons Blood) Resin Extract Potassium Sorbate Sorbic 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 A handy helper ingredient (a polymer, i.e. big molecule from repeated subunits) that is used to stabilize emulsions as well as to thicken up products. It can also stabilize foam in cleansing products. If you ever wondered what those little Listerine breath strips were made of, you found your answer! Pullulan is a polysaccharide polymer, which basically means that it’s a big molecule made up of smaller sugar molecule units. It dissolves in water and can make a thin, elastic, and moisture-absorbing film when spread on the skin that can cause an instant tightening effect. It can also be used as a thickener to get a silicone-like feel and can be used in peel-off masks. Btw, it's made from fungus via fermentation. 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. We don't have description for this ingredient yet. Super common little helper ingredient that helps products to remain nice and stable for a longer time. It does so by neutralizing the metal ions in the formula (that usually get into there from water) that would otherwise cause some not so nice changes. It is typically used in tiny amounts, around 0.1% or less. If you have spotted ethylhexylglyc what‑it‑does skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. surfactant/cleansing | viscosity controlling abrasive/scrub

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