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BOSCIA Peptide Youth Restore Firming Body Serum
BOSCIA Peptide Youth Restore Firming Body Serum BOSCIA Peptide Youth Restore Firming Body Serum ingredients explained: Water/Aqua/Eau, Propanediol, Glycerin, Squalane, Caprooyl Tetrapeptide-3, Niacinamide, Calendula Officinalis Flower Extract, Bisabolol, Zingi
BOSCIA Peptide Youth Restore Firming Body Serum BOSCIA Peptide Youth Restore Firming Body Serum ingredients explained: Water/Aqua/Eau, Propanediol, Glycerin, Squalane, Caprooyl Tetrapeptide-3, Niacinamide, Calendula Officinalis Flower Extract, Bisabolol, Zingiber Officinale (Ginger) Root Extract, Chamomilla Recutita (Matricaria) Flower Extract, Sodium Hyaluronate, Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Extract, Epilobium Angustifolium Flower/Leaf/Stem Extract, Citrus Grandis (Grapefruit) Peel Oil, Citrus Aurantium Dulcis (Orange) Peel Oil, Caprylyl Glycol, 1,2-Hexanediol, Butylene Glycol, Pullulan, Isohexadecane, Dextran, Polysorbate 80, Sodium Acrylate/Sodium Acryloyldimethyl Taurate Copolymer Show all ingredients by function Water/Aqua/Eau solvent Propanediol solvent, moisturizer/humectant Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/humectant 0, 0 superstar Squalane skin-identical ingredient, emollient 0, 1 goodie Caprooyl Tetrapeptide-3 cell-communicating ingredient Niacinamide cell-communicating ingredient, skin brightening, anti-acne, moisturizer/humectant Calendula Officinalis Flower Extract soothing, antioxidant, perfuming Bisabolol soothing Zingiber Officinale (Ginger) Root Extract antioxidant, soothing Chamomilla Recutita (Matricaria) Flower Extract soothing, antioxidant Sodium Hyaluronate Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Extract abrasive/scrub, emollient Epilobium Angustifolium Flower/Leaf/Stem Extract Citrus Grandis (Grapefruit) Peel Oil perfuming icky Citrus Aurantium Dulcis (Orange) Peel Oil Caprylyl Glycol moisturizer/humectant, emollient 1,2-Hexanediol Butylene Glycol moisturizer/humectant, solvent Pullulan Isohexadecane emollient, solvent Dextran viscosity controlling Polysorbate 80 emulsifying, surfactant/cleansing Sodium Acrylate/Sodium Acryloyldimethyl Taurate Copolymer 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. Propanediol is a natural alternative for the often used and often bad-mouthed propylene glycol. It's produced sustainably from corn sugar and it's Ecocert approved. It's quite a multi-tasker: can be used to improve skin moisturization, as a solvent, to boost preservative efficacy or to influence the sensory properties of the end formula. 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 It seems to us that squalane is in fashion and there is a reason for it. Chemically speaking, it is a saturated (no double bonds) hydrocarbon (a molecule consisting only of carbon and hydrogen), meaning that it's a nice and stable oily liquid with a long shelf life. It occurs naturally in certain fish and plant oils (e.g. olive), and in the sebum (the oily stuff our skin produces) of the human skin. As f.c. puts it in his awesome blog post, squalane's main things are "emolliency, surface occlusion, and TEWL prevention all with extreme cosmetic elegance". In other words, it's a superb moisturizer that makes your skin nice and smooth, without being heavy or greasy. Another advantage of squalane is that it is pretty much compatible with all skin types and skin conditions. It is excellent for acne-prone skin and safe to use even if you have fungi-related skin issues, like seborrhea or fungal acne. The unsaturated (with double bonds) and hence less stable version of Squalane is Squalene, you can read about it here >> A four amino acid, biomimetic (i.e. a molecule in nature is copied synthetically in a lab) peptide that copies a growth factor that boosts the production of key components of the dermal-epidermal junction (the place where the top two layers of the skin meet). These key components are important skin-structure giving proteins such as collagen VII, laminin-5, and fibronectin. What this means in practice, and according to the in-vivo (made on people) tests of the manufacturer, is that C what‑it‑does solvent | moisturizer/humectant skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. skin-identical ingredient | emollient cell-communicating ingredient | skin brightening | anti-acne | moisturizer/humectant soothing | antioxidant | perfuming antioxidant | soothing soothing | antioxidant abrasive/scrub | emollient moisturizer/humectant | emollient moisturizer/humectant | solvent emollient | solvent emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing