Belei Vitamin C + Hyaluronic Acid Serum

Belei Vitamin C + Hyaluronic Acid Serum Belei Vitamin C + Hyaluronic Acid Serum ingredients explained: Water (Aqua), Dipropylene Glycol, Sd Alcohol 40-B (Alcohol Denat.), Laureth-23, Sodium Ascorbyl Phosphate, Phenoxyethanol, Xanthan Gum, Caprylyl Glycol, Olea Europaea (Olive) Leaf Extract, Citric Acid, Ethylhexylglycerin, Hexylene Glycol, Tocopherol, Fomes Officinalis (Mushroom) Extract, Butylene Glycol, Propanediol, Hydroxypropyl Methylcellulose Stearoxy Ether, Sodium Acetylated Hyaluronate Show all ingredients by function Water (Aqua) solvent Dipropylene Glycol Sd Alcohol 40-B (Alcohol Denat.) solvent, viscosity controlling icky Laureth-23 emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing 0, 3 Sodium Ascorbyl Phosphate antioxidant, anti-acne goodie Phenoxyethanol preservative Xanthan Gum viscosity controlling Caprylyl Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, emollient Olea Europaea (Olive) Leaf Extract perfuming Citric Acid buffering Ethylhexylglycerin Hexylene Glycol solvent, emulsifying, perfuming, surfactant/​cleansing 0-1, 0-2 Tocopherol antioxidant 0-3, 0-3 Fomes Officinalis (Mushroom) Extract Butylene Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, solvent 0, 1 Propanediol solvent, moisturizer/​humectant Hydroxypropyl Methylcellulose Stearoxy Ether Sodium Acetylated Hyaluronate 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 clear, colorless liquid that works as a solvent and viscosity decreasing ingredient. It also has great skin-moisturizing abilities. SD-Alcohol and some numer+letter refers to alcohol (or ethanol) being denaturated with different kind of additives. These additives make sure that the alcohol is poisonous and bad tasting so that nobody drinks their alcohol-loaded toner. 40-B specifically means the additives are denatonium benzoate and t-butyl alcohol. As for Alcohol Denat in skincare, it's a controversial ingredient. It's a great solvent and makes cosmetically elegant, light formulas but at best it's skin-drying, at worst it's skin-barrier damaging. We have written about alcohol way more here. A white waxy solid that helps water and oil to mix nicely together (emulsifier). It is derived from the fatty alcohol lauryl alcohol by ethoxylating it and thus making the molecule a lot more water-soluble. In fact, Laureth-23 is mostly water-soluble acting as a solubilizer for dissolving small amounts of oily things into water-based formulas. The sodium salt form of skincare superstar, vitamin C. If you do not know what the big fuss about vitamin C is, you are missing out and you have to click here and read all the geeky details about it. Pure vitamin C (aka ascorbic acid, AA) is great and all, but its lack of stability is a big challenge for the cosmetics industry. One solution is to create stable derivatives that can be absorbed into the skin, convert there to AA and do all the magic AA is proven to do (which is being an antioxidant, a collagen booster, and a skin brightener). SAP (the vit C derivative, not the enterprise software, obvs) is a promising derivative that has great stability up to pH 7. The challenge with it though is skin penetration. Unfortunately, it seems to be limited, or to quote a great article from the Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology "topically applied ascorbyl phosphate salts are, at very best, poorly absorbed in comparison with AA". Regarding conversion to AA, there seems to be no data about it, so we can neither deny nor confirm it. We have better news regarding the three magic abilities of vitamin C: there is in-vivo (tested on real people) data showing that SAP does have photo-protective (aka antioxidant) properties, though less than pure AA. SAP might also aid collagen boosting; in what‑it‑does solvent | viscosity controlling emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing irritancy, com. antioxidant | anti-acne moisturizer/humectant | emollient solvent | emulsifying | perfuming | surfactant/cleansing moisturizer/humectant | solvent solvent | moisturizer/humectant moisturizer/humectant

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