Balea Hydrogel Mask Watermelon

Balea Hydrogel Mask Watermelon Balea Hydrogel Mask Watermelon ingredients explained: Aqua, Butylene Glycol, Glycerin, Chondrus Crispus Powder, Glucomannan, Xanthan Gum, Potassium Chloride, Trehalose, Sodium Hyaluronate, Citrullus Lanatus Fruit Extract, Centella Asiatica Extract, 1,2-Hexanediol, Fucose, Propylene Glycol, Ceramide 3, Hydroxyacetophenone, Parfum, Ci. 77019, Ci 77891 Show all ingredients by function Aqua solvent Butylene Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, solvent 0, 1 Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Chondrus Crispus Powder abrasive/​scrub Glucomannan moisturizer/​humectant goodie Xanthan Gum viscosity controlling Potassium Chloride Trehalose Sodium Hyaluronate Citrullus Lanatus Fruit Extract antioxidant Centella Asiatica Extract soothing, antioxidant, moisturizer/​humectant 1,2-Hexanediol Fucose Propylene Glycol Ceramide 3 skin-identical ingredient Hydroxyacetophenone antioxidant, preservative Parfum perfuming icky Ci. 77019 colorant Ci 77891 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. Butylene glycol, or let’s just call it BG, is a multi-tasking colorless, syrupy liquid. It’s a great pick for creating a nice feeling product. BG’s main job is usually to be a solvent for the other ingredients. Other tasks include helping the product to absorb faster and deeper into the skin (penetration enhancer), making the product spread nicely over the skin (slip agent), and attracting water (humectant) into the skin. It’s an ingredient whose safety hasn’t been questioned so far by anyone (at least not that we know about). BG is approved by Ecocert and is also used enthusiastically in natural products. BTW, it’s also a food additive. 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 We don't have description for this ingredient yet. 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 (> 200 kDa) that has outstanding water-absorbing capacities. These two combined form small spheres which after drying, are transformed into the active spheres. Thanks to their high hygroscopic properties, the spheres can expand rapidly in the presence of the skin’s water reserve and they can plump up the skin and reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles. 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 l what‑it‑does moisturizer/humectant | solvent irritancy, com. skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant abrasive/scrub moisturizer/humectant soothing | antioxidant | moisturizer/humectant antioxidant | preservative

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