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Bielenda Professional Vit C Active Caffeine Eye Cream

Bielenda Professional Vit C Active Caffeine Eye Cream Bielenda Professional Vit C Active Caffeine Eye Cream ingredients explained: Aqua (Water), Citrus Aurantium Dulcis (Orange) Flower Water, Sorbitol, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Persea Gratissima (Avocado)

Bielenda Professional Vit C Active Caffeine Eye Cream Bielenda Professional Vit C Active Caffeine Eye Cream ingredients explained: Aqua (Water), Citrus Aurantium Dulcis (Orange) Flower Water, Sorbitol, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Persea Gratissima (Avocado) Oil, Glyceryl Stearate, Cetearyl Alcohol, Tocopheryl Acetate, Caffeine, Propanediol, Euphrasia Officinalis Leaf Extract, Panax Ginseng Root Extract, Sodium Hyaluronate, Allantoin, Glycerin, Maris Sal, Vegetable Oil, Potassium Cetyl Phosphate, Sodium Stearoyl Glutamate, Citric Acid, Ammonium Acryloyldimethyltaurate/VP Copolymer, Disodium EDTA, Ethylhexylglycerin, Phenoxyethanol, Sodium Benzoate, Potassium Sorbate, Benzyl Alcohol, Limonene, Linalool, Citral Show all ingredients by function Aqua (Water) solvent Citrus Aurantium Dulcis (Orange) Flower Water Sorbitol moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride emollient Persea Gratissima (Avocado) Oil antioxidant, emollient 0, 0-3 goodie Glyceryl Stearate emollient, emulsifying 0, 1 Cetearyl Alcohol emollient, viscosity controlling, emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing 1, 2 Tocopheryl Acetate antioxidant Caffeine antioxidant, perfuming Propanediol solvent, moisturizer/​humectant Euphrasia Officinalis Leaf Extract Panax Ginseng Root Extract Sodium Hyaluronate skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant Allantoin soothing Glycerin superstar Maris Sal Vegetable Oil Potassium Cetyl Phosphate emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing Sodium Stearoyl Glutamate Citric Acid buffering Ammonium Acryloyldimethyltaurate/VP Copolymer viscosity controlling Disodium EDTA chelating Ethylhexylglycerin preservative Phenoxyethanol Sodium Benzoate Potassium Sorbate Benzyl Alcohol preservative, perfuming, solvent, viscosity controlling Limonene perfuming, solvent icky Linalool perfuming Citral 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. We don't have description for this ingredient yet. It's a sweet tasting sugar substitute that helps your skin to hold onto water when used in cosmetic products. It also helps to thicken up products and give them a bit more slip. A super common emollient that makes your skin feel nice and smooth. It comes from coconut oil and glycerin, it’s light-textured, clear, odorless and non-greasy. It’s a nice ingredient that just feels good on the skin, is super well tolerated by every skin type and easy to formulate with. No wonder it’s popular. The oil coming from the pulp of one of the most nutritious fruits in the world, the avocado. It's loaded with the nourishing and moisturizing fatty acid, oleic (70%) and contains some others including palmitic (10%) and linoleic acid (8%). It also contains a bunch of minerals and vitamins A, E and D. Avocado oil has extraordinary skin penetration abilities and can nourish different skin layers. It's a very rich, highly moisturizing emollient oil that makes the skin smooth and nourished. Thanks to its vitamin E content it also has some antioxidant properties. As a high-oleic plant oil, it is recommended for dry skin. A super common, waxy, white, solid stuff that helps water and oil to mix together, gives body to creams and leaves the skin feeling soft and smooth. Chemically speaking, it is the attachment of a glycerin molecule to the fatty acid called stearic acid. It can be produced from most vegetable oils (in oils three fatty acid molecules are attached to glycerin instead of just one like here) in a pretty simple, "green" process that is similar to soap making. It's readily biodegradable. It also occurs naturally in our body and is used as a food additive. As cosmetic chemist Colins writes it, "its safety really is beyond any doubt". 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 p what‑it‑does moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. antioxidant | emollient emollient | emulsifying emollient | viscosity controlling | emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing antioxidant | perfuming solvent | moisturizer/humectant skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing preservative | perfuming | solvent | viscosity controlling perfuming | solvent

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