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CurrentBody Hydrogel Face Mask
CurrentBody Hydrogel Face Mask CurrentBody Hydrogel Face Mask ingredients explained: Water, Butylene Glycol, Glycerin, Methylpropanediol, Carrageenan, 1,2-Hexanediol, Glucomannan, Ceratonia Siliqua (Carob) Gum, Dipropylene Glycol, Agar, Niacinamide, PEG-60 Hyd
CurrentBody Hydrogel Face Mask CurrentBody Hydrogel Face Mask ingredients explained: Water, Butylene Glycol, Glycerin, Methylpropanediol, Carrageenan, 1,2-Hexanediol, Glucomannan, Ceratonia Siliqua (Carob) Gum, Dipropylene Glycol, Agar, Niacinamide, PEG-60 Hydrogenated Castor Oil, Sodium Hyaluronate, Xanthan Gum, Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract, Zingiber Officinale (Ginger) Root Extract, Glycyrrhiza Glabra (Licorice) Root Extract, Schizandra Chinensis Fruit Extract, Coptis Japonica Root Extract, Ethylhexylglycerin, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Dextrin, Sucrose, Dipotassium Glycyrrhizate, Potassium Chloride, Disodium EDTA, Citrus Aurantium Bergamia (Bergamot) Fruit Oil, Anthemis Nobilis Flower Extract, Prunus Serrulata Flower Extract, Caprylyl Glycol, Pearl Extract Show all ingredients by function Water solvent Butylene Glycol moisturizer/humectant, solvent 0, 1 Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/humectant 0, 0 superstar Methylpropanediol Carrageenan viscosity controlling 1,2-Hexanediol Glucomannan moisturizer/humectant goodie Ceratonia Siliqua (Carob) Gum emollient, viscosity controlling Dipropylene Glycol Agar Niacinamide cell-communicating ingredient, skin brightening, anti-acne, moisturizer/humectant PEG-60 Hydrogenated Castor Oil emulsifying, surfactant/cleansing Sodium Hyaluronate Xanthan Gum Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract antioxidant, soothing Zingiber Officinale (Ginger) Root Extract Glycyrrhiza Glabra (Licorice) Root Extract soothing, skin brightening Schizandra Chinensis Fruit Extract Coptis Japonica Root Extract soothing, antioxidant Ethylhexylglycerin preservative Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride emollient Dextrin viscosity controlling, moisturizer/humectant Sucrose moisturizer/humectant, soothing Dipotassium Glycyrrhizate soothing, moisturizer/humectant Potassium Chloride Disodium EDTA chelating Citrus Aurantium Bergamia (Bergamot) Fruit Oil perfuming icky Anthemis Nobilis Flower Extract soothing, perfuming Prunus Serrulata Flower Extract Caprylyl Glycol moisturizer/humectant, emollient Pearl Extract antioxidant 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. Butylene glycol, or let’s just call it BG, is a multi-tasking colorless, syrupy liquid. It’s a great pick for creating a nice feeling product. BG’s main job is usually to be a solvent for the other ingredients. Other tasks include helping the product to absorb faster and deeper into the skin (penetration enhancer), making the product spread nicely over the skin (slip agent), and attracting water (humectant) into the skin. It’s an ingredient whose safety hasn’t been questioned so far by anyone (at least not that we know about). BG is approved by Ecocert and is also used enthusiastically in natural products. BTW, it’s also a food additive. 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 a type of glycol that - according to the manufacturer - is an extremely good replacement for other glycols like propylene or butylene glycol. Its main job is to be a solvent, but it has also very good antimicrobial properties and acts as a true preservative booster. Also helps with skin hydration without stickiness or tacky feel. A natural polysaccharide (big sugar molecule) coming from red edible seaweeds. It is used as a helper ingredient for its gelling, thickening and stabilizing properties. A really multi-functional helper ingredient that can do several things in a skincare product: it can bring a soft and pleasant feel to the formula, it can act as a humectant and emollient, it can be a solvent for some other ingredients (for example it can help to stabilize perfumes in watery products) and it can also help to disperse pigments more evenly in makeup products. And that is still not all: it can also boost the antimicrobial activity of preservatives. Glucomannan is a polysaccharide (a big sugar molecule) coming from the Konjac plant. It has great water-absorbing capacity and is one of the key ingredients in the plumping and smoothing active called Ultra Filling Spheres by BASF. 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