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Beauty of Joseon Repair Serum
Beauty of Joseon Repair Serum Beauty of Joseon Repair Serum ingredients explained: Panax Ginseng Root Water (63%), Butylene Glycol, 1,2-Hexanediol, Snail Secretion Filtrate (3%), Dipropylene Glycol, Water, Niacinamide (2%), Glycerin, Propanediol, Trehalose, Xa
Beauty of Joseon Repair Serum Beauty of Joseon Repair Serum ingredients explained: Panax Ginseng Root Water (63%), Butylene Glycol, 1,2-Hexanediol, Snail Secretion Filtrate (3%), Dipropylene Glycol, Water, Niacinamide (2%), Glycerin, Propanediol, Trehalose, Xanthan Gum, Glycereth-25 Pca Isostearate, Glyceryl Acrylate/Acrylic Acid Copolymer, Ethylhexylglycerin, Carbomer, Adenosine (2%), Cocoa Seed Extract, Tricholoma Matsutake Extract, Tromethamine, Rhododendron Chrysanthum Leaf Extract, Disodium EDTA, Hydrolyzed Cicer Seed Extract, Hyaluronic Acid, Hydrolyzed Hyaluronic Acid, Dextrin, Sodium Hyaluronate, Phellinus Linteus Extract, Cornus Officinalis Fruit Extract, Licorice Root Extract, Akebia Quinata Extract, Panax Ginseng Root Extract Show all ingredients by function Panax Ginseng Root Water (63%) Butylene Glycol moisturizer/humectant, solvent 0, 1 1,2-Hexanediol solvent Snail Secretion Filtrate (3%) antioxidant, moisturizer/humectant goodie Dipropylene Glycol Water Niacinamide (2%) cell-communicating ingredient, skin brightening, anti-acne, moisturizer/humectant superstar Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/humectant 0, 0 Propanediol solvent, moisturizer/humectant Trehalose moisturizer/humectant Xanthan Gum viscosity controlling Glycereth-25 Pca Isostearate emulsifying Glyceryl Acrylate/Acrylic Acid Copolymer moisturizer/humectant, viscosity controlling Ethylhexylglycerin preservative Carbomer Adenosine (2%) cell-communicating ingredient Cocoa Seed Extract Tricholoma Matsutake Extract Tromethamine buffering Rhododendron Chrysanthum Leaf Extract soothing Disodium EDTA chelating Hydrolyzed Cicer Seed Extract Hyaluronic Acid Hydrolyzed Hyaluronic Acid Dextrin viscosity controlling, moisturizer/humectant Sodium Hyaluronate Phellinus Linteus Extract Cornus Officinalis Fruit Extract Licorice Root Extract soothing, skin brightening Akebia Quinata Extract Panax Ginseng Root Extract antioxidant, emollient We don't have description for this ingredient yet. 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. Expand to read more 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 really multi-functional helper ingredient that can do several things in a skincare product: it can bring a soft and pleasant feel to the formula, it can act as a humectant and emollient, it can be a solvent for some other ingredients (for example it can help to stabilize perfumes in watery products) and it can also help to disperse pigments more evenly in makeup products. And that is still not all: it can also boost the antimicrobial activity of preservatives. If you are into the K-Beauty trend, you must have bumped into snail slime like a thousand times. Korean brands love the ingredient and tout it for its miraculous repair and hydration properties. It's claimed to be able to repair everything from dry patches, acne breakouts to signs of aging and we are happy to say that it might be just true. So snail slime is the yucky stuff that snails (in cosmetics the secretion of Cornu Aspersum, the garden snail is used) produce when they are in stress (it's not the same as the one they secret to be able to move nicely and smoothly). As the cosmetic chemists at the Beauty Brains blog write, "chemically speaking, snail slime is a complex mixture of proteoglycans, glycosaminoglycans, glycoprotein enzymes, hyaluronic acid, copper peptides, antimicrobial peptides and trace elements including copper, zinc, and iron." English translation equals it's loaded with a bunch of good-for-the-skin stuff. As for scientific proof that snail slime does something for the skin, we did find a couple of studies to go by. A Spanish radiation oncologist, Rafael Abad Iglesias MD discovered for the first time that snail mucin can be used to treat radiation dermatitis (skin irritation caused by radiotherapy, a form of cancer treatment). He did a clinical study with 100 patients and reported a "statistically significant clinical improvement in erythema, itching and burning pain" in the group treated with snail slime. A 2007 study examined the molecular basis for the great regeneration properties of the ingredient. It found that snail slime (SS) indeed does a bunch of positive things that could be the reason for its great repair abilities. First, it has serious antioxidant properties thanks to two great antioxidant enzymes, superoxide dismutase and glutathione s-transferase. S what‑it‑does moisturizer/humectant | solvent irritancy, com. antioxidant | moisturizer/humectant cell-communicating ingredient | skin brightening | anti-acne | moisturizer/humectant skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant solvent | moisturizer/humectant moisturizer/humectant moisturizer/humectant | viscosity controlling viscosity controlling | moisturizer/humectant soothing | skin brightening antioxidant | emollient