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Elevate Multi-peptide Hair Growth Serum

Elevate Multi-peptide Hair Growth Serum Elevate Multi-peptide Hair Growth Serum ingredients explained: Aqua, Glycerin, Caffeine, Biotin, Biotinoyl Tripeptide-1, Rosmarinus Officinalis (Rosemary) Leaf Extract, Acetyl Tetrapeptide-3, Acetyl Tetrapeptide-1, PEG-4

Elevate Multi-peptide Hair Growth Serum Elevate Multi-peptide Hair Growth Serum ingredients explained: Aqua, Glycerin, Caffeine, Biotin, Biotinoyl Tripeptide-1, Rosmarinus Officinalis (Rosemary) Leaf Extract, Acetyl Tetrapeptide-3, Acetyl Tetrapeptide-1, PEG-40 Hydrogenated Castor Oil, Panthenol, Camellia Japonica Leaf Extract, Alpinia Galanga Extract, Satureja Montana Oil, Hyaluronic Acid, Melaleuca Alternifolia (Tea Tree) Leaf Oil, Menthol, Phenoxyethanol, Ethylhexylglycerin Show all ingredients by function Aqua solvent Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Caffeine antioxidant, perfuming goodie Biotin Biotinoyl Tripeptide-1 cell-communicating ingredient Rosmarinus Officinalis (Rosemary) Leaf Extract antioxidant, soothing, antimicrobial/​antibacterial Acetyl Tetrapeptide-3 Acetyl Tetrapeptide-1 PEG-40 Hydrogenated Castor Oil emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing Panthenol soothing, moisturizer/​humectant Camellia Japonica Leaf Extract Alpinia Galanga Extract Satureja Montana Oil Hyaluronic Acid Melaleuca Alternifolia (Tea Tree) Leaf Oil soothing, anti-acne, antioxidant, antimicrobial/​antibacterial, perfuming Menthol soothing icky Phenoxyethanol preservative Ethylhexylglycerin 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 Hello, our favorite molecule that helps us wake up in the morning and then keeps us going through the day. As a super well-known stimulant from coffee, tea and plenty of other soft drinks, Caffeine needs no introduction. So we will skip right to the part where we talk about what the hell it does in so-so many cosmetic products. Looking at the research, we were surprised to find how versatile Caffeine is. It is a small, water-loving molecule with pretty good skin penetration abilties. Once in the skin, it has nice antioxidant properties, meaning that it reduces the formation of evil free radicals and it might even be useful in preventing UV-induced skin cancers. A well-known thing about Caffeine is that it improves the microcirculation of the blood vessels. Though conventional wisdom and anecdotal evidence says that this property is helpful for dark under-eye circles and puffy eyes, we have to mention that the double-blind research we have found about a 3% caffeine gel concluded that "the overall efficacy of the selected caffeine gel in reducing puffy eyes was not significantly different from that of its gel base." But you know, the proof is in the pudding. Another thing Caffeine is used for in body care products is its anti-cellulite effects. In theory, it can speed up the lipolysis process (the "fat burning" by our cells) and stimulate the draining lymph system that might lead to the improvement of cellulite. But here again, the evidence that it actually makes a measurable, let alone visible, improvement on actual human beings is limited (we could find only some animal skin studies or caffeine being combined with other actives). Last, but not least, we have to write about caffeine and hair growth. The theory is that it can inhibit the activity of the 5-α-reductase enzyme that plays an important role in hair loss and allows what‑it‑does skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. antioxidant | perfuming antioxidant | soothing | antimicrobial/antibacterial emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing soothing | moisturizer/humectant soothing | anti-acne | antioxidant | antimicrobial/antibacterial | perfuming

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