Dear Me Beauty 8% Snap 8 Peptide + Avocado Extract Face Serum

Dear Me Beauty 8% Snap 8 Peptide + Avocado Extract Face Serum Dear Me Beauty 8% Snap 8 Peptide + Avocado Extract Face Serum ingredients explained: Water, Phenoxyethanol, Aloe Barbadensis (Leaf) Extract, Persea Gratissima (Avocado) Fruit Extract, Glycerin, Propylene Glycol, Caprylyl Glycol, Ethylhexylglycerin, Acetyl Octapeptide-3, Citric Acid, Potassium Sorbate, Sodium Citrate, Sodium Benzoate, Soluble Collagen Show all ingredients by function Water solvent Phenoxyethanol preservative Aloe Barbadensis (Leaf) Extract soothing, emollient, moisturizer/​humectant goodie Persea Gratissima (Avocado) Fruit Extract Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Propylene Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, solvent Caprylyl Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, emollient Ethylhexylglycerin Acetyl Octapeptide-3 cell-communicating ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant Citric Acid buffering Potassium Sorbate Sodium Citrate chelating, buffering Sodium Benzoate Soluble Collagen moisturizer/​humectant 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. It’s pretty much the current IT-preservative. It’s safe and gentle, but even more importantly, it’s not a feared-by-everyone-mostly-without-scientific-reason paraben. It’s not something new: it was introduced around 1950 and today it can be used up to 1% worldwide. It can be found in nature - in green tea - but the version used in cosmetics is synthetic. Other than having a good safety profile and being quite gentle to the skin it has some other advantages too. It can be used in many types of formulations as it has great thermal stability (can be heated up to 85°C) and works on a wide range of pH levels (ph 3-10). It’s often used together with ethylhexylglycerin as it nicely improves the preservative activity of phenoxyethanol. The extract coming from the juice containing leaves of the Aloe vera plant. It's usually a hydroglycolic extract (though oil extract for the lipid parts also exists) that has similar moisturizing, emollient and anti-inflammatory properties as the juice itself. We have written some more about aloe here. We don't have description for this ingredient yet. 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 helper ingredient that improves the freeze-thaw stability of products It's also a solvent, humectant and to some extent a penetration enhancer It has a bad reputation among natural cosmetics advocates but cosmetic scientists and toxicology experts do not agree (read more in the geeky details section) It’s a handy multi-tasking ingredient that gives the skin a nice, soft feel. At the same time, it also boosts the effectiveness of other preservatives, such as the nowadays super commonly used phenoxyethanol. The blend of these two (caprylyl glycol + phenoxyethanol) is called Optiphen, which not only helps to keep your cosmetics free from nasty things for a long time but also gives a good feel to the finished product. It's a popular duo. If you have what‑it‑does soothing | emollient | moisturizer/humectant skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. moisturizer/humectant | solvent moisturizer/humectant | emollient cell-communicating ingredient | moisturizer/humectant chelating | buffering moisturizer/humectant

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