CYLAB Crithmum Maritimum + Copper Peptide Repairing Jelly Mask

CYLAB Crithmum Maritimum + Copper Peptide Repairing Jelly Mask CYLAB Crithmum Maritimum + Copper Peptide Repairing Jelly Mask ingredients explained: Water, Butylene Glycol, Sodium Hyaluronate, Carbomer, Crithmum Maritimum Callus Culture Filtrate, Copper Tripeptide-1, Panthenol, Niacinamide, Propanediol, Silver Oxide, Hydroxypropyltrimonium Hyaluronate, Triethanolamine, Fragrance, Pentasodium Pentetate, Boerhavia Diffusa (Red Spiderling) Root Extract, Glycerin, Salvia Sclarea (Clary) Extract, Phytic Acid Show all ingredients by function Water solvent Butylene Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, solvent 0, 1 Sodium Hyaluronate skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 goodie Carbomer viscosity controlling Crithmum Maritimum Callus Culture Filtrate Copper Tripeptide-1 cell-communicating ingredient, soothing, antioxidant Panthenol soothing, moisturizer/​humectant Niacinamide cell-communicating ingredient, skin brightening, anti-acne, moisturizer/​humectant superstar Propanediol solvent, moisturizer/​humectant Silver Oxide antimicrobial/​antibacterial Hydroxypropyltrimonium Hyaluronate Triethanolamine buffering 0, 2 Fragrance perfuming icky Pentasodium Pentetate chelating Boerhavia Diffusa (Red Spiderling) Root Extract Glycerin Salvia Sclarea (Clary) Extract soothing Phytic Acid 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. It’s the - sodium form - cousin of the famous NMF, hyaluronic acid (HA). If HA does not tell you anything we have a super detailed, geeky explanation about it here. The TL; DR version of HA is that it's a huge polymer (big molecule from repeated subunits) found in the skin that acts as a sponge helping the skin to hold onto water, being plump and elastic. HA is famous for its crazy water holding capacity as it can bind up to 1000 times its own weight in water. As far as skincare goes, sodium hyaluronate and hyaluronic acid are pretty much the same and the two names are used interchangeably. As cosmetic chemist kindofstephen writes on reddit "sodium hyaluronate disassociates into hyaluronic acid molecule and a sodium atom in solution". In spite of this, if you search for "hyaluronic acid vs sodium hyaluronate" you will find on multiple places that sodium hyaluronate is smaller and can penetrate the skin better. Chemically, this is definitely not true, as the two forms are almost the same, both are polymers and the subunits can be repeated in both forms as much as you like. (We also checked Prospector for sodium hyaluronate versions actually used in cosmetic products and found that the most common molecular weight was 1.5-1.8 million Da that absolutely counts as high molecular weight). What seems to be a true difference, though, is that the salt form is more stable, easier to formulate and cheaper so it pops up more often on the ingredient lists. If you wanna become a real HA-and-the-skin expert you can read way more about the topic at hyaluronic acid (including penetration-questions, differences between high and low molecular weight versions and a bunch of references what‑it‑does moisturizer/humectant | solvent irritancy, com. skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant cell-communicating ingredient | soothing | antioxidant soothing | moisturizer/humectant cell-communicating ingredient | skin brightening | anti-acne | moisturizer/humectant solvent | moisturizer/humectant antimicrobial/antibacterial

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