Beyond Beautiful Glass Skin Glow Hyaluronic Acid Serum

Beyond Beautiful Glass Skin Glow Hyaluronic Acid Serum Beyond Beautiful Glass Skin Glow Hyaluronic Acid Serum ingredients explained: Water, Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Extract, Hyaluronic Acid, Hamamelis Virginiana (Witch Hazel) Extract, Carica Papaya (Papaya) Fruit Extract, Kojic Acid, Azelaic Acid, Niacinamide, Glycolic Acid, Phenoxyethanol, Carbomer Show all ingredients by function Water solvent Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Extract soothing, emollient, moisturizer/​humectant goodie Hyaluronic Acid skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant Hamamelis Virginiana (Witch Hazel) Extract soothing, antioxidant, antimicrobial/​antibacterial Carica Papaya (Papaya) Fruit Extract Kojic Acid antioxidant, skin brightening Azelaic Acid anti-acne, soothing, buffering superstar Niacinamide cell-communicating ingredient, skin brightening, anti-acne, moisturizer/​humectant Glycolic Acid exfoliant, buffering Phenoxyethanol preservative Carbomer viscosity controlling 0, 1 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. The extract coming from the juice containing leaves of the Aloe vera plant. It's usually a hydroglycolic extract (though oil extract for the lipid parts also exists) that has similar moisturizing, emollient and anti-inflammatory properties as the juice itself. We have written some more about aloe here. It’s naturally in our skin and behaves there like a sponge It can bind up to 1000 times its own weight in water It is a big molecule from repeated subunits (polymer) so different molecular weight versions exist (unfortunately there is no way to determine MW from INCI list only) High-molecular-weight-HA (>500 kDa) is an excellent surface hydrator, skin protectant and can act as an osmotic pump helping water-soluble actives to penetrate deeper into the skin Low-molecular-weight-HA (< 500 kDa) can hydrate the skin somewhat deeper though it is still a big molecule and works mainly in the epidermis (outer layer of the skin) Low-molecular-weight-HA might also help the skin to repair itself by increasing its self-defense (~ 200kDa used in the study) Ultra-low-molecular-weight-HA (<50kDa) is a controversial ingredient and might work as a pro-inflammatory signal molecule Witch hazel is a smallish tree (up to 5m) that's native to North-America, has nice yellow flowers and is similar to the hazelnut bush (hence the name). As for skincare, it's loaded with active components that have a bunch of magic properties, like astringent, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant and anti-bacterial. It's also a well-known vasoconstrictor (it makes the blood vessels narrower) and promotes the healing of broken skin by tightening up the skin proteins and thus creating a protective covering. The complication, however, is that different extracts and distillates can be made from different parts of the plant (bark, twigs, and leaves are typically used) and different extraction methods from different parts produce different results. So if you see only Witch Hazel Extract or Witch Hazel Water on the ingredient list, it's a bit hard to know what you're actually getting but we will try to summarize the possibilities to give an idea. The main biologically active components in Witch Hazel are hamamelitannin (a potent astringent and antioxidant), catechins (anti-inflammatory and antioxidant) and gallic acid (antibacterial). The bark extract conta what‑it‑does soothing | emollient | moisturizer/humectant skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant soothing | antioxidant | antimicrobial/antibacterial antioxidant | skin brightening anti-acne | soothing | buffering cell-communicating ingredient | skin brightening | anti-acne | moisturizer/humectant exfoliant | buffering irritancy, com.

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