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Blueprint Peptide Hair Serum
Blueprint Peptide Hair Serum Blueprint Peptide Hair Serum ingredients explained: Aqua, Pentylene Glycol, Glycerin, Hydroxyethyl Acrylate/Sodium Acryloyldimethyl Taurate Copolymer, SH-Oligopeptide-1, Sh-Oligopeptide-4, Sh-Polypeptide-4, SH-Polypeptide-7, SH-Pol
Blueprint Peptide Hair Serum Blueprint Peptide Hair Serum ingredients explained: Aqua, Pentylene Glycol, Glycerin, Hydroxyethyl Acrylate/Sodium Acryloyldimethyl Taurate Copolymer, SH-Oligopeptide-1, Sh-Oligopeptide-4, Sh-Polypeptide-4, SH-Polypeptide-7, SH-Polypeptide-9, SH-Polypeptide-59, SH-Polypeptide-86, Dna (Pdrn), Nicotinamide Mononucleotide, Curcumin, Tetrahydrocurcumin, Copper Tripeptide-1, Panthenol, Caffeine, Adenosine, Niacinamide, Arginine, Ketoglutaric Acid, Salicylic Acid, Thioctic Acid, Lecithin, 1,2-Hexanediol, Acetyl Cysteine, Glycine, 3-O-Ethyl Ascorbic Acid, P-Anisic Acid, Polysorbate 60, Sodium Citrate, Citric Acid, Glutathione Show all ingredients by function Aqua solvent Pentylene Glycol solvent, moisturizer/humectant Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/humectant 0, 0 superstar Hydroxyethyl Acrylate/Sodium Acryloyldimethyl Taurate Copolymer viscosity controlling SH-Oligopeptide-1 cell-communicating ingredient Sh-Oligopeptide-4 Sh-Polypeptide-4 antioxidant SH-Polypeptide-7 SH-Polypeptide-9 SH-Polypeptide-59 SH-Polypeptide-86 Dna (Pdrn) Nicotinamide Mononucleotide Curcumin antioxidant, colorant Tetrahydrocurcumin Copper Tripeptide-1 cell-communicating ingredient, soothing, antioxidant goodie Panthenol soothing, moisturizer/humectant Caffeine antioxidant, perfuming Adenosine Niacinamide cell-communicating ingredient, skin brightening, anti-acne, moisturizer/humectant Arginine skin-identical ingredient Ketoglutaric Acid Salicylic Acid exfoliant, anti-acne, soothing, preservative Thioctic Acid Lecithin emollient, emulsifying 1,2-Hexanediol Acetyl Cysteine Glycine 3-O-Ethyl Ascorbic Acid antioxidant, skin brightening P-Anisic Acid preservative Polysorbate 60 emulsifying, surfactant/cleansing Sodium Citrate chelating, buffering Citric Acid buffering Glutathione 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 multi-functional, silky feeling helper ingredient that can do quite many things. It's used as an emulsion stabilizer, solvent and a broad spectrum antimicrobial. According to manufacturer info, it's also a moisturizer and helps to make the product feel great on the skin. It works synergistically with preservatives and helps to improve water-resistance of sunscreens. 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 This long-named, polymer molecule (big molecule from repeated subunits) is a helper ingredient that's good at emulsifying and stabilizing oils into water-based formulas. It also acts as a thickening and gelling agent that creates nice, non-sticky and supple textures. It works over a very wide pH range (3-12) and can be used to thicken up low-ph formulas, such as exfoliants. Its recommended used range is 0.3-3%. Sh-Oligopeptide-1 is the famous molecule, which is also called Epidermal Growth Factor or EGF. Chemically speaking, Growth Factors are largish peptides or smallish proteins, or to put it in another way, medium-length amino acid sequences (EGF consists of 53 amino acids). Biologically speaking, Growth Factors are cellular signal molecules that can stimulate cell growth, proliferation, healing and/or differentiation. There are lots of Growth Factors and EGF is just one of them. The topic of "Growth Factors and skincare" is a big, confusing and controversial one and we will try our best to summarize the story for you, including the pros and the cons. EGF is a special snowflake when it comes to skincare as it was the first Growth Factor that made its way into cosmetic products and it is also the most common one. The American biochemist, Stanley Cohen discovered EGF and was awarded a Noble prize in 1986 for it. As the Noble prize may signify, the molecule is significant and powerful and directly stimulates the proliferation of epidermal cells. When it comes what‑it‑does solvent | moisturizer/humectant skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. antioxidant | colorant cell-communicating ingredient | soothing | antioxidant soothing | moisturizer/humectant antioxidant | perfuming cell-communicating ingredient | skin brightening | anti-acne | moisturizer/humectant exfoliant | anti-acne | soothing | preservative emollient | emulsifying antioxidant | skin brightening emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing chelating | buffering