Dermal Elixir Hyaluronic Acid Serum With Oxothiazolidinecarboxylic Acid (otca) 2%

Dermal Elixir Hyaluronic Acid Serum With Oxothiazolidinecarboxylic Acid (otca) 2% Dermal Elixir Hyaluronic Acid Serum With Oxothiazolidinecarboxylic Acid (otca) 2% ingredients explained: Aqua (Water), Propanediol, Arginine, Butylene Glycol, Oxothiazolidinecarboxylic Acid, 1,2-Hexanediol, Sodium Hyaluronate, Xylitylglucoside, Caprylhydroxamic Acid, Sodium Phytate, Allantoin, Anhydroxylitol, Xylitol Show all ingredients by function Aqua (Water) solvent Propanediol solvent, moisturizer/​humectant Arginine skin-identical ingredient goodie Butylene Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, solvent 0, 1 Oxothiazolidinecarboxylic Acid 1,2-Hexanediol Sodium Hyaluronate skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 Xylitylglucoside moisturizer/​humectant Caprylhydroxamic Acid chelating Sodium Phytate Allantoin soothing Anhydroxylitol Xylitol 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 semi-essential (infants cannot synthesize it, but adults can) amino acid that is one of the primary building blocks of hair keratin and skin collagen. It's a natural moisturizing factor, a skin hydrator and might also help to speed up wound healing. Arginine usually has a positive charge (cationic) that makes it substantive to skin and hair (those are more negatively charged surfaces) and an excellent film former. Thanks to the positive charge, it also creates a complex with AHAs (AHAs like to lose a hydrogen ion and be negatively charged, so the positive and the negative ions attract each other) that causes a "time-release AHA effect" and reduces the irritation associated with AHAs. 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. We don't have description for this ingredient yet. 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. 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 exp what‑it‑does solvent | moisturizer/humectant moisturizer/humectant | solvent irritancy, com. skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant moisturizer/humectant

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