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DOSE by VH Multi-peptide Anti-ageing Serum

DOSE by VH Multi-peptide Anti-ageing Serum DOSE by VH Multi-peptide Anti-ageing Serum ingredients explained: Aqua (Water), Glycerin, Polysorbate 20, Palmitoyl Tripeptide-5, Acetyl Hexapeptide-8, Palmitoyl Tripeptide-1, Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-7, Ergothioneine,

DOSE by VH Multi-peptide Anti-ageing Serum DOSE by VH Multi-peptide Anti-ageing Serum ingredients explained: Aqua (Water), Glycerin, Polysorbate 20, Palmitoyl Tripeptide-5, Acetyl Hexapeptide-8, Palmitoyl Tripeptide-1, Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-7, Ergothioneine, Sodium Hyaluronate, Vitis Vinifera (Grape) Seed Extract, Caprylyl Glycol, Carbomer, Butylene Glycol, Dehydroacetic Acid, Phenoxyethanol, Benzyl Alcohol Show all ingredients by function Aqua (Water) solvent Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Polysorbate 20 emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing Palmitoyl Tripeptide-5 cell-communicating ingredient goodie Acetyl Hexapeptide-8 cell-communicating ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant Palmitoyl Tripeptide-1 Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-7 Ergothioneine antioxidant Sodium Hyaluronate Vitis Vinifera (Grape) Seed Extract antioxidant, antimicrobial/​antibacterial Caprylyl Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, emollient Carbomer viscosity controlling 0, 1 Butylene Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, solvent Dehydroacetic Acid preservative Phenoxyethanol Benzyl Alcohol preservative, perfuming, solvent, viscosity controlling 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. 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 common little helper ingredient that helps water and oil to mix together. Also, it can help to increase the solubility of some other ingredients in the formula. A tripeptide (three amino acids attached to each other: Lys-Val-Lys) that's claimed to protect and boost collagen and improve skin texture. The manufacturer did an in-vivo (made on real people) study with 45 volunteers and found that used twice daily for 84 days 1% and 2.5% Syn-Coll reduces the appearance of wrinkles by 7 and 12% respectively. In another study (also by the manufacturer) with 33 female Chinese volunteers, 77% of the participants felt that Syn-Coll visibly improved the firmness and elasticity of the skin after 4 weeks. What's more, 60% of the participants also noticed a reduction in the look of the pore size also after 4 weeks of treatment. If you see a cosmetic product that claims that it has "Botox-like effect" then two things are almost certain: one, the product overpromises and two, it contains Argireline. So this one is the famous peptide that's marketed by its manufacturer as the "Botox in a jar". The basis for this claim is that it targets the same wrinkle forming mechanism (wrinkles caused by facial muscle movement) as Botox, but the way it works is very different. In addition, the extent to which it can prevent muscles from contracting (and to smooth wrinkles) is very different (otherwise why would anyone use still Botox?). The manufacturer did several studies to prove that Argireline really works and it does (just not as well as Botox). In-vivo (made on real people) tests showed that using 10% Argireline solution around the eyes for 15 days decreased wrinkles depth by 17%, while a 5% Argireline formula applied for 28 days did almost the same with a decrease in wrinkle depth by 16.26%. A Spanish University also did some research and fo what‑it‑does skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing cell-communicating ingredient | moisturizer/humectant antioxidant | antimicrobial/antibacterial moisturizer/humectant | emollient moisturizer/humectant | solvent preservative | perfuming | solvent | viscosity controlling

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