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Beautaniq beauty Caffeine Eye Cream

Beautaniq beauty Caffeine Eye Cream Beautaniq beauty Caffeine Eye Cream ingredients explained: Aqua (Water), Glycerin, Niacinamide, Propylene Glycol, Glyceryl Stearate SE, Cetearyl Alcohol, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Squalane, Stearic Acid, Phenoxyethanol,

Beautaniq beauty Caffeine Eye Cream Beautaniq beauty Caffeine Eye Cream ingredients explained: Aqua (Water), Glycerin, Niacinamide, Propylene Glycol, Glyceryl Stearate SE, Cetearyl Alcohol, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Squalane, Stearic Acid, Phenoxyethanol, Carbomer, Coconut Alkanes, Gluconolactone, Sodium Hyaluronate, Sodium Hydroxide, Sodium Benzoate, Ethylhexylglycerin, Tocopheryl Acetate, Coco-Caprylate/Caprate, Camellia Sinensis (Green Tea) Leaf Extract, Calcium Gluconate Show all ingredients by function Aqua (Water) solvent Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Niacinamide cell-communicating ingredient, skin brightening, anti-acne, moisturizer/​humectant Propylene Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, solvent Glyceryl Stearate SE emulsifying 2, 3 Cetearyl Alcohol emollient, viscosity controlling, emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing 1, 2 Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride emollient Squalane skin-identical ingredient, emollient 0, 1 goodie Stearic Acid emollient, viscosity controlling 0, 2-3 Phenoxyethanol preservative Carbomer viscosity controlling Coconut Alkanes emollient, solvent Gluconolactone exfoliant, chelating Sodium Hyaluronate Sodium Hydroxide buffering Sodium Benzoate Ethylhexylglycerin Tocopheryl Acetate antioxidant Coco-Caprylate/Caprate Camellia Sinensis (Green Tea) Leaf Extract antioxidant, soothing Calcium Gluconate 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 multi-functional skincare superstar with several proven benefits for the skin Great anti-aging, wrinkle smoothing ingredient used at 4-5% concentration Fades brown spots alone or in combination with amino sugar, acetyl glucosamine Increases ceramide synthesis that results in a stronger, healthier skin barrier and better skin hydration Can help to improve several skin conditions including acne, rosacea, and atopic dermatitis It's a helper ingredient that improves the freeze-thaw stability of products It's also a solvent, humectant and to some extent a penetration enhancer It has a bad reputation among natural cosmetics advocates but cosmetic scientists and toxicology experts do not agree (read more in the geeky details section) An oily kind of ingredient that can magically blend with water all by itself. This is called self-emulsifying and SE in its name stands for that. The difference between "normal" Glyceryl Stearate and this guy is that the SE grade contains a small amount of water-loving soap molecules, such as sodium stearate. This increases Glyceryl Stearate's affinity for water and gives it stronger emulsifying abilities. Other than that, it’s a nice emollient that gives a smooth and soft appearance to the skin. You can read some more at Glyceryl Stearate >> An extremely common multitasker ingredient that gives your skin a nice soft feel (emollient) and gives body to creams and lotions. It also helps to stabilize oil-water mixes (emulsions), though it does not function as an emulsifier in itself. Its typical use level in most cream type formulas is 2-3%. It’s a so-called fatty alcohol, a mix of cetyl and stearyl alcohol, other two emollient fatty alcohols. Though chemically speaking, it is alcohol (as in, it has an -OH group in its molecule), its properties are totally different from the properties of low molecular what‑it‑does skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. cell-communicating ingredient | skin brightening | anti-acne | moisturizer/humectant moisturizer/humectant | solvent emollient | viscosity controlling | emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing skin-identical ingredient | emollient emollient | viscosity controlling emollient | solvent exfoliant | chelating antioxidant | soothing moisturizer/humectant

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