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BALANCE active formula Gold Collagen Hydrogel Mask

BALANCE active formula Gold Collagen Hydrogel Mask BALANCE active formula Gold Collagen Hydrogel Mask ingredients explained: Aqua/Water, Glycerin, Xanthan Gum, Synthetic Fluorphlogopite, Ci 77891/Titanium Dioxide, Glucomannan, Citric Acid, Phenoxyethanol, Diaz

BALANCE active formula Gold Collagen Hydrogel Mask BALANCE active formula Gold Collagen Hydrogel Mask ingredients explained: Aqua/Water, Glycerin, Xanthan Gum, Synthetic Fluorphlogopite, Ci 77891/Titanium Dioxide, Glucomannan, Citric Acid, Phenoxyethanol, Diazolidinyl Urea, Chondrus Crispus Powder, Algin, Potassium Citrate, Potassium Chloride, Ci 77491/Iron Oxides, Tin Oxide, Hydrolyzed Collagen, Parfum/Fragrance, Iodopropynyl Butylcarbamate, Propanediol, Aroma/Flavor, Benzyl Alcohol, Glyceryl Caprylate, Benzoic Acid, Colloidal Gold, Acetyl Heptapeptide-9 Show all ingredients by function Aqua/Water solvent Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Xanthan Gum viscosity controlling Synthetic Fluorphlogopite Ci 77891/Titanium Dioxide colorant Glucomannan moisturizer/​humectant goodie Citric Acid buffering Phenoxyethanol preservative Diazolidinyl Urea icky Chondrus Crispus Powder abrasive/​scrub Algin 4, 4 Potassium Citrate buffering, chelating Potassium Chloride Ci 77491/Iron Oxides Tin Oxide colorant, abrasive/​scrub, viscosity controlling Hydrolyzed Collagen emollient, moisturizer/​humectant Parfum/Fragrance perfuming Iodopropynyl Butylcarbamate Propanediol solvent, moisturizer/​humectant Aroma/Flavor Benzyl Alcohol preservative, perfuming, solvent, viscosity controlling Glyceryl Caprylate Benzoic Acid Colloidal Gold antimicrobial/​antibacterial Acetyl Heptapeptide-9 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 It's one of the most commonly used thickeners and emulsion stabilizers. If the product is too runny, a little xanthan gum will make it more gel-like. Used alone, it can make the formula sticky and it is a good team player so it is usually combined with other thickeners and so-called rheology modifiers (helper ingredients that adjust the flow and thus the feel of the formula). The typical use level of Xantha Gum is below 1%, it is usually in the 0.1-0.5% range. Btw, Xanthan gum is all natural, a chain of sugar molecules (polysaccharide) produced from individual sugar molecules (glucose and sucrose) via fermentation. It’s approved by Ecocert and also used in the food industry (E415). Synthetic Fluorphlogopite is the synthetic version of the super commonly used mineral, Mica. The advantage of being synthetic is that it has a more consistent quality, fewer impurities and an even lower heavy metal content than Mica (not that Mica's heavy metal content is high). It is also more transparent and has improved light reflection. The two main use cases for Synthetic Fluorphlogopite is being used neat as a superior "filler" or skin tone enhancer or it can also serve as a base for multi-layered, composite pigments such as pearl effect pigments where it is coated with one or more layers of metal oxide, most commonly titanium dioxide. Ci 77891 is the color code of titanium dioxide. It's a white pigment with great color consistency and dispersibility. Glucomannan is a polysaccharide (a big sugar molecule) coming from the Konjac plant. It has great water-absorbing capacity and is one of the key ingredients in the plumping and smoothing active called Ultra Filling Spheres by BASF. The magic filling spheres have two active parts: a kind of LMW hyaluronic acid (<40 kDa) and the konjac root powder or glucomannan. The latter one is a big molecule what‑it‑does skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. moisturizer/humectant abrasive/scrub buffering | chelating colorant | abrasive/scrub | viscosity controlling emollient | moisturizer/humectant solvent | moisturizer/humectant preservative | perfuming | solvent | viscosity controlling antimicrobial/antibacterial

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