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Bioniva Hyaluronic Acid Serum
Bioniva Hyaluronic Acid Serum Bioniva Hyaluronic Acid Serum ingredients explained: Aqua, Cassia Angustifolia Seed Extract (Botanical Hyaluronic Acid), Glycerin, Hamamelis Virginiana Water, Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Extract, Dimethyl Sulfone, Tocopheryl Acetate, So
Bioniva Hyaluronic Acid Serum Bioniva Hyaluronic Acid Serum ingredients explained: Aqua, Cassia Angustifolia Seed Extract (Botanical Hyaluronic Acid), Glycerin, Hamamelis Virginiana Water, Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Extract, Dimethyl Sulfone, Tocopheryl Acetate, Sodium Ascorbyl Phosphate (Vitamin C), Simmondsia Chinensis Seed Oil (Organic Jojoba Oil), Pelargonium Graveolens Oil (Geranium Essential Oil), Camellia Sinensis Extract (Organic Green Tea), Centella Asiatica Extract (Organic Gotu Kola), Equisetum Arvense Extract (Horsetail), Taraxacum Officinale Extract (Dandelion), Geranium Maculatum Extract (Wild Geranium), Hydroxyethylcellulose, Xanthan Gum, Phenoxyethanol, Sodium Hydroxide, Ethylhexylglycerin Show all ingredients by function Aqua solvent Cassia Angustifolia Seed Extract (Botanical Hyaluronic Acid) Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/humectant 0, 0 superstar Hamamelis Virginiana Water soothing goodie Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Extract soothing, emollient, moisturizer/humectant Dimethyl Sulfone Tocopheryl Acetate antioxidant Sodium Ascorbyl Phosphate (Vitamin C) antioxidant, anti-acne Simmondsia Chinensis Seed Oil (Organic Jojoba Oil) emollient 0, 0-2 Pelargonium Graveolens Oil (Geranium Essential Oil) perfuming icky Camellia Sinensis Extract (Organic Green Tea) antioxidant, soothing Centella Asiatica Extract (Organic Gotu Kola) soothing, antioxidant, moisturizer/humectant Equisetum Arvense Extract (Horsetail) soothing, emollient Taraxacum Officinale Extract (Dandelion) Geranium Maculatum Extract (Wild Geranium) Hydroxyethylcellulose viscosity controlling Xanthan Gum Phenoxyethanol preservative Sodium Hydroxide buffering Ethylhexylglycerin 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. 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 The distillate created from different parts of the hazelnut-bush-like magic tree, commonly called Witch Hazel. Hamamelis Virginiana Water is a bit of a sloppy ingredient name as the leaves, the twigs and the bark can be used to create extracts or distillates and the different parts contain different amounts of biologically active components. But what you are getting is probably a nice water with astringent, soothing, antioxidant and antibacterial magic properties. We went into great detail about Witch Hazel in cosmetics here, detailing the main biologically active components and how they are different in different parts of the plant. Click here and read more >> 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 the most commonly used version of pure vitamin E in cosmetics. You can read all about the pure form here. This one is the so-called esterified version. According to famous dermatologist, Leslie Baumann while tocopheryl acetate is more stable and has a longer shelf life, it’s also more poorly absorbed by the skin and may not have the same awesome photoprotective effects as pure Vit E. 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 what‑it‑does skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. soothing | emollient | moisturizer/humectant antioxidant | anti-acne antioxidant | soothing soothing | antioxidant | moisturizer/humectant soothing | emollient