earthen alchemy Hydra Bamboo + B5 Hyaluronic Acid Serum

earthen alchemy Hydra Bamboo + B5 Hyaluronic Acid Serum earthen alchemy Hydra Bamboo + B5 Hyaluronic Acid Serum ingredients explained: Aqua, Panthenol (Vitamin B5), Sodium Hyaluronate (Hyaluronic Acid), Bamboo (Bambusa Vulgaris) Extract, Geogard ECT, Benzyl Alcohol, Salicylic Acid, Glycerin, Sorbic Acid, Glycerin Show all ingredients by function Aqua solvent Panthenol (Vitamin B5) soothing, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 goodie Sodium Hyaluronate (Hyaluronic Acid) skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant Bamboo (Bambusa Vulgaris) Extract Benzyl Alcohol preservative, perfuming, solvent, viscosity controlling Salicylic Acid exfoliant, anti-acne, soothing, preservative superstar Glycerin Sorbic Acid preservative 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. An easy-to-formulate, commonly used, nice to have ingredient that’s also called pro-vitamin B5. As you might guess from the “pro” part, it’s a precursor to vitamin B5 (whose fancy name is pantothenic acid). Its main job in skincare products is to moisturise the skin. It’s a humectant meaning that it can help the skin to attract water and then hold onto it. There is also research showing that panthenol can help our skin to produce more lovely lipids that are important for a strong and healthy skin barrier. Another great thing about panthenol is that it has anti-inflammatory and skin protecting abilities. A study shows that it can reduce the irritation caused by less-nice other ingredients (e.g. fragrance, preservatives or chemical sunscreens) in the product. Research also shows that it might be useful for wound healing as it promotes fibroblast (nice type of cells in our skin that produce skin-firming collagen) proliferation. If that wasn’t enough panthenol is also useful in nail and hair care products. A study shows that a nail treatment liquide with 2% panthenol could effectively get into the nail and significantly increase the hydration of it. As for the hair the hydration effect is also true there. Panthenol might make your hair softer, more elastic and helps to comb your hair more easily. 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 t what‑it‑does soothing | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant preservative | perfuming | solvent | viscosity controlling exfoliant | anti-acne | soothing | preservative

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