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Basiclab Esteticus Firming Peptide Serum

Basiclab Esteticus Firming Peptide Serum Basiclab Esteticus Firming Peptide Serum ingredients explained: Aqua, Propanediol, Butylene Glycol, Glycerin, Pentylene Glycol, Copper Tripeptide-1, Acetyl Hexapeptide-8, Acetyl Octapeptide-3, Dipeptide Diaminobutyroyl

Basiclab Esteticus Firming Peptide Serum Basiclab Esteticus Firming Peptide Serum ingredients explained: Aqua, Propanediol, Butylene Glycol, Glycerin, Pentylene Glycol, Copper Tripeptide-1, Acetyl Hexapeptide-8, Acetyl Octapeptide-3, Dipeptide Diaminobutyroyl Benzylamide Diacetate, Oligopeptide-1, Nicotiana Benthamiana Hexapeptide- 40 SH-Polypeptide- 76, Hydrolyzed Hyaluronic Acid, Sodium Hyaluronate, Caprylyl Glycol, Carrageenan, Hydroxyacetophenone Show all ingredients by function Aqua solvent Propanediol solvent, moisturizer/​humectant Butylene Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, solvent 0, 1 Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Pentylene Glycol Copper Tripeptide-1 cell-communicating ingredient, soothing, antioxidant goodie Acetyl Hexapeptide-8 cell-communicating ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant Acetyl Octapeptide-3 Dipeptide Diaminobutyroyl Benzylamide Diacetate cell-communicating ingredient Oligopeptide-1 Nicotiana Benthamiana Hexapeptide- 40 SH-Polypeptide- 76 Hydrolyzed Hyaluronic Acid moisturizer/​humectant Sodium Hyaluronate Caprylyl Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, emollient Carrageenan viscosity controlling Hydroxyacetophenone antioxidant, preservative 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. Propanediol is a natural alternative for the often used and often bad-mouthed propylene glycol. It's produced sustainably from corn sugar and it's Ecocert approved. It's quite a multi-tasker: can be used to improve skin moisturization, as a solvent, to boost preservative efficacy or to influence the sensory properties of the end formula. 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 A multi-functional, silky feeling helper ingredient that can do quite many things. It's used as an emulsion stabilizer, solvent and a broad spectrum antimicrobial. According to manufacturer info, it's also a moisturizer and helps to make the product feel great on the skin. It works synergistically with preservatives and helps to improve water-resistance of sunscreens. GHK-Cu is a copper-peptide complex found naturally in yucky bodily fluids (plasma, saliva, and urine) It has unique wound healing properties by stimulating the breakdown of unhealthy, too large collagen in scar tissue and stimulating nice and healthy collagen production afterwards It stimulates the production of several important skin-identical ingredients (e.g. collagen, elastin, and glycosaminoglycans) It has significant anti-inflammatory and antioxidant effect There are a few promising stud what‑it‑does solvent | moisturizer/humectant moisturizer/humectant | solvent irritancy, com. skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant cell-communicating ingredient | soothing | antioxidant cell-communicating ingredient | moisturizer/humectant moisturizer/humectant moisturizer/humectant | emollient antioxidant | preservative

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