Ellana Eyes Up Lifting & Brightening Eye Serum With Caffeine & Vit C

Ellana Eyes Up Lifting & Brightening Eye Serum With Caffeine & Vit C Ellana Eyes Up Lifting & Brightening Eye Serum With Caffeine & Vit C ingredients explained: Aqua, Glycerin, Coffea Arabica Seed Extract, Maltodextrin, Punica Granatum Flower Extract, Sodium Ascorbyl Phosphate, Senegal Gum, Rhizobian Gum, Saccharide Isomerate, Lysine, Histidine, Arginine, Aspartic Acid, Threonine, Serine, Glutamic Acid, Proline, Glycine, Alanine, Valine, Methionine, Isoleucine, Leucine, Tyrosine, Phenylalanine, Cysteine, Caprylyl Glycol, Ethylhexylglycerin, Phenoxyethanol, Silica, Methicone, Polyacrylate Crosspolymer-6, Sodium Benzoate, Citric Acid, Potassium Sorbate, Sodium Citrate Show all ingredients by function Aqua solvent Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Coffea Arabica Seed Extract Maltodextrin Punica Granatum Flower Extract Sodium Ascorbyl Phosphate antioxidant, anti-acne goodie Senegal Gum Rhizobian Gum viscosity controlling Saccharide Isomerate moisturizer/​humectant Lysine Histidine Arginine skin-identical ingredient Aspartic Acid Threonine Serine Glutamic Acid Proline Glycine Alanine Valine Methionine Isoleucine Leucine Tyrosine Phenylalanine Cysteine antioxidant Caprylyl Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, emollient Ethylhexylglycerin preservative Phenoxyethanol Silica Methicone emollient Polyacrylate Crosspolymer-6 Sodium Benzoate Citric Acid buffering Potassium Sorbate Sodium Citrate chelating, buffering 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 We don't have description for this ingredient yet. It's a little helper ingredient coming from corn, rice or potato starch that can help to keep skin mat (absorbent), to stabilise emulsions, and to keep the product together (binding). The sodium salt form of skincare superstar, vitamin C. If you do not know what the big fuss about vitamin C is, you are missing out and you have to click here and read all the geeky details about it. Pure vitamin C (aka ascorbic acid, AA) is great and all, but its lack of stability is a big challenge for the cosmetics industry. One solution is to create stable derivatives that can be absorbed into the skin, convert there to AA and do all the magic AA is proven to do (which is being an antioxidant, a collagen booster, and a skin brightener). SAP (the vit C derivative, not the enterprise software, obvs) is a promising derivative that has great stability up to pH 7. The challenge with it though is skin penetration. Unfortunately, it seems to be limited, or to quote a great article from the Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology "topically applied ascorbyl phosphate salts are, at very best, poorly absorbed in comparison with AA". Regarding conversion to AA, there seems to be no data about it, so we can neither deny nor confirm it. We have better news regarding the three magic abilities of vitamin C: there is in-vivo (tested on real people) data showing that SAP does have photo-protective (aka antioxidant) properties, though less than pure AA. SAP might also aid collagen boosting; in-vitro (made in the lab) data shows that it works, but is less effective than another vitamin C derivative, called MAP (that seems to be as effective as pure AA). As for skin-brightening, there is a trade publication with in-vivo data showing that SAP can fade brown spots. Another thing SAP might be able to do is to help with what‑it‑does skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. antioxidant | anti-acne moisturizer/humectant moisturizer/humectant | emollient chelating | buffering

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