DIME Tbt Serum: Mandelic Acid + Peptides

DIME Tbt Serum: Mandelic Acid + Peptides DIME Tbt Serum: Mandelic Acid + Peptides ingredients explained: Water, Mandelic Acid, Propanediol, Niacinamide, Sodium Hyaluronate (Hyaluronic Acid), Camellia Sinensis (Green Tea) Extract, Vitis Vinifera (Grape) Seed Extract, Phenoxyethanol, Ethylhexylglycerin, Rosa Canina (Rosehip) Seed Oil, Phoenix Dactylifera (Date Palm) Extract, Punica Granatum (Pomegranate) Seed Oil, Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Oil, Persea Gratissima (Avocado) Oil, Sclerocarya Birrea (Marula) Oil, Vaccinium Vitis-Idaea (Lingonberry) Seed Oil, Moringa Oleifera Seed Oil, Bakuchiol, Nigella Sativa (Black Cumin) Seed Oil, Resveratrol, Gynostemma Pentaphyllum, Lycium Barbarum (Goji Berry) Extract, Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-1, Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-7, Azadirachta Indica (Neem) Oil, Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-38 Show all ingredients by function Water solvent Mandelic Acid exfoliant, antimicrobial/​antibacterial goodie Propanediol solvent, moisturizer/​humectant Niacinamide cell-communicating ingredient, skin brightening, anti-acne, moisturizer/​humectant superstar Sodium Hyaluronate (Hyaluronic Acid) skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 Camellia Sinensis (Green Tea) Extract antioxidant, soothing Vitis Vinifera (Grape) Seed Extract antioxidant, antimicrobial/​antibacterial Phenoxyethanol preservative Ethylhexylglycerin Rosa Canina (Rosehip) Seed Oil emollient Phoenix Dactylifera (Date Palm) Extract Punica Granatum (Pomegranate) Seed Oil antioxidant, emollient Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Oil Persea Gratissima (Avocado) Oil 0, 0-3 Sclerocarya Birrea (Marula) Oil Vaccinium Vitis-Idaea (Lingonberry) Seed Oil Moringa Oleifera Seed Oil Bakuchiol cell-communicating ingredient, antioxidant, antimicrobial/​antibacterial Nigella Sativa (Black Cumin) Seed Oil soothing, antioxidant, emollient, perfuming Resveratrol antioxidant Gynostemma Pentaphyllum Lycium Barbarum (Goji Berry) Extract Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-1 Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-7 cell-communicating ingredient Azadirachta Indica (Neem) Oil Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-38 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. Mandelic acid is an AHA that comes from bitter almond It can gently lift off dead surface skin cells and make the skin more smooth and even It has antibacterial properties It’s promising against acne and post inflammatory hyperpigmentation It’s light sensitive, so choose a product with opaque packaging 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 multi-functional skincare superstar with several proven benefits for the skin Great anti-aging, wrinkle smoothing ingredient used at 4-5% concentration Fades brown spots alone or in combination with amino sugar, acetyl glucosamine Increases ceramide synthesis that results in a stronger, healthier skin barrier and better skin hydration Can help to improve several skin conditions including acne, rosacea, and atopic dermatitis 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 absolu what‑it‑does exfoliant | antimicrobial/antibacterial solvent | moisturizer/humectant cell-communicating ingredient | skin brightening | anti-acne | moisturizer/humectant skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. antioxidant | soothing antioxidant | antimicrobial/antibacterial antioxidant | emollient cell-communicating ingredient | antioxidant | antimicrobial/antibacterial soothing | antioxidant | emollient | perfuming

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