Crop Natural Bakuchiol & Collagen Serum

Crop Natural Bakuchiol & Collagen Serum Crop Natural Bakuchiol & Collagen Serum ingredients explained: Water (Aqua), Propanediol, Glycerin, Xanthan Gum, Hydrolyzed Collagen, Bakuchiol, Panthenol, Polyglyceryl-10 Laurate, Butylene Glycol, Fragrance, Lecithin, Sclerotium Gum, Pullulan, Dehydroacetic Acid, Benzyl Alcohol, Citric Acid Show all ingredients by function Water (Aqua) solvent Propanediol solvent, moisturizer/​humectant Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Xanthan Gum viscosity controlling Hydrolyzed Collagen emollient, moisturizer/​humectant goodie Bakuchiol cell-communicating ingredient, antioxidant, antimicrobial/​antibacterial Panthenol soothing, moisturizer/​humectant Polyglyceryl-10 Laurate surfactant/​cleansing, emulsifying Butylene Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, solvent 0, 1 Fragrance perfuming icky Lecithin emollient, emulsifying Sclerotium Gum Pullulan Dehydroacetic Acid preservative Benzyl Alcohol preservative, perfuming, solvent, viscosity controlling Citric Acid buffering 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's one of the most commonly used thickeners and emulsion stabilizers. If the product is too runny, a little xanthan gum will make it more gel-like. Used alone, it can make the formula sticky and it is a good team player so it is usually combined with other thickeners and so-called rheology modifiers (helper ingredients that adjust the flow and thus the feel of the formula). The typical use level of Xantha Gum is below 1%, it is usually in the 0.1-0.5% range. Btw, Xanthan gum is all natural, a chain of sugar molecules (polysaccharide) produced from individual sugar molecules (glucose and sucrose) via fermentation. It’s approved by Ecocert and also used in the food industry (E415). The chemically chopped up version of the big protein molecule, collagen. It is often derived from fish or bovine sources and works as a nice moisturizer and humectant that helps the skin to hold onto water. To understand a bit more what Hydrolyzed Collagen is, you have to know that proteins are large chains of amino acids connected with so-called peptide bonds. These bonds can be broken up when a water molecule is added and the resulting thing is a mix of shorter length amino acids, also called peptides. So Hydrolyzed Collagen is not really collagen, it is rather an undefined and varying mix of largish peptides. Based on a manufacturer's data, the whole, soluble collagen has an average molecular weight of 300 000 Da, while this chopped up mixture has an average MW of 12 000 Da (still pretty big). The main thing o what‑it‑does solvent | moisturizer/humectant skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. emollient | moisturizer/humectant cell-communicating ingredient | antioxidant | antimicrobial/antibacterial soothing | moisturizer/humectant surfactant/cleansing | emulsifying moisturizer/humectant | solvent emollient | emulsifying preservative | perfuming | solvent | viscosity controlling

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