Dr. Sheth's Bakuchiol & Peptide Serum

Dr. Sheth's Bakuchiol & Peptide Serum Dr. Sheth's Bakuchiol & Peptide Serum ingredients explained: Purified Water, Glycerin, Niacinamide, Propylene Glycol, Sodium Polyacrylate Starch, Almond Oil, Vitamin E Acetate, Sodium Acrylates Copolymer, Butylene Glycol, PEG-100 Stearate, Bakuchiol (99%), Evening Primrose Oil, Glyceryl Stearate, Phenoxyethanol, Allantoin, Lecithin, Butylated Hydroxytoluene, Disodium EDTA, Carbomer, Polysorbate 20, Palmitoyl Tripeptide-1, Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-7 Show all ingredients by function Purified Water solvent Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Niacinamide cell-communicating ingredient, skin brightening, anti-acne, moisturizer/​humectant Propylene Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, solvent Sodium Polyacrylate Starch viscosity controlling Almond Oil emollient 0, 1-3 goodie Vitamin E Acetate antioxidant Sodium Acrylates Copolymer Butylene Glycol 0, 1 PEG-100 Stearate surfactant/​cleansing, emulsifying Bakuchiol (99%) cell-communicating ingredient, antioxidant, antimicrobial/​antibacterial Evening Primrose Oil soothing, emollient 2, 3 Glyceryl Stearate emollient, emulsifying Phenoxyethanol preservative Allantoin soothing Lecithin Butylated Hydroxytoluene antioxidant, preservative Disodium EDTA chelating Carbomer Polysorbate 20 emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing Palmitoyl Tripeptide-1 cell-communicating ingredient Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-7 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 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 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) We don't have description for this ingredient yet. The emollient plant oil that comes from almonds. Similar to other plant oils, it is loaded with skin-nourishing fatty acids (oleic acid - 55-86% and linoleic acid 7-35%) and contains several other skin goodies such as antioxidant vitamin E and vitamin B versions. It's a nice, basic oil that is often used due to its great smoothing, softening and moisturizing properties. It's also particularly good at treating dry brittle nails (source). It’s the most commonly used version of pure vitamin E in cosmetics. You can read all about the pure form here. This one is the so-called esterified version. According to famous dermatologist, Leslie Baumann while tocopheryl acetate is more stable and has a longer shelf life, it’s also more poorly absorbed by the skin and may not have the same awesome photoprotective effects as pure Vit E. A big molecule from repeated subunits that is used to form gel-like textures and create a film on the skin. Butylene glycol, or let’s just call it BG, is a multi-tasking colorless, syrupy liquid. It’s a great pick for creating a nic what‑it‑does skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. cell-communicating ingredient | skin brightening | anti-acne | moisturizer/humectant moisturizer/humectant | solvent surfactant/cleansing | emulsifying cell-communicating ingredient | antioxidant | antimicrobial/antibacterial soothing | emollient emollient | emulsifying antioxidant | preservative emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing

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