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Erno Laszlo Exfoliate & Detox Detoxifying Hydrogel Mask

Erno Laszlo Exfoliate & Detox Detoxifying Hydrogel Mask Erno Laszlo Exfoliate & Detox Detoxifying Hydrogel Mask ingredients explained: Water (Aqua/Eau), Glycerin, Butylene Glycol, 1,2-Hexanediol, Chondrus Crispus Powder, Ceratonia Siliqua (Carob) Gum, Cellulos

Erno Laszlo Exfoliate & Detox Detoxifying Hydrogel Mask Erno Laszlo Exfoliate & Detox Detoxifying Hydrogel Mask ingredients explained: Water (Aqua/Eau), Glycerin, Butylene Glycol, 1,2-Hexanediol, Chondrus Crispus Powder, Ceratonia Siliqua (Carob) Gum, Cellulose Gum, Charcoal Powder, Citrus Aurantifolia (Lime) Fruit Extract, Citrus Limon (Lemon) Fruit Extract, Pyrus Malus (Apple) Fruit Extract, Citrus Aurantium Dulcis (Orange) Fruit Extract, Vitis Vinifera (Grape) Fruit Extract, Glutathione, Acacia Senegal Gum, Peat Water, Actinidia Chinensis (Kiwi) Fruit Extract, Biosaccharide Gum-4, Hydroxypropyl Cyclodextrin, Trideceth-6, Sodium Polyacrylate, Hydrogenated Polydecene, Hydroxypropyl Methylcellulose, Polysorbate 20, Parfum (Fragrance), Phenoxyethanol, Ethylhexylglycerin, Ci 77491 (Iron Oxides) Show all ingredients by function Water (Aqua/Eau) solvent Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Butylene Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, solvent 0, 1 1,2-Hexanediol Chondrus Crispus Powder abrasive/​scrub Ceratonia Siliqua (Carob) Gum emollient, viscosity controlling Cellulose Gum viscosity controlling Charcoal Powder Citrus Aurantifolia (Lime) Fruit Extract Citrus Limon (Lemon) Fruit Extract Pyrus Malus (Apple) Fruit Extract moisturizer/​humectant goodie Citrus Aurantium Dulcis (Orange) Fruit Extract Vitis Vinifera (Grape) Fruit Extract soothing, antioxidant, moisturizer/​humectant Glutathione Acacia Senegal Gum Peat Water Actinidia Chinensis (Kiwi) Fruit Extract emollient Biosaccharide Gum-4 Hydroxypropyl Cyclodextrin Trideceth-6 emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing Sodium Polyacrylate Hydrogenated Polydecene emollient, perfuming, solvent Hydroxypropyl Methylcellulose surfactant/​cleansing, viscosity controlling Polysorbate 20 Parfum (Fragrance) perfuming icky Phenoxyethanol preservative Ethylhexylglycerin Ci 77491 (Iron Oxides) colorant 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 Butylene glycol, or let’s just call it BG, is a multi-tasking colorless, syrupy liquid. It’s a great pick for creating a nice feeling product. BG’s main job is usually to be a solvent for the other ingredients. Other tasks include helping the product to absorb faster and deeper into the skin (penetration enhancer), making the product spread nicely over the skin (slip agent), and attracting water (humectant) into the skin. It’s an ingredient whose safety hasn’t been questioned so far by anyone (at least not that we know about). BG is approved by Ecocert and is also used enthusiastically in natural products. BTW, it’s also a food additive. A really multi-functional helper ingredient that can do several things in a skincare product: it can bring a soft and pleasant feel to the formula, it can act as a humectant and emollient, it can be a solvent for some other ingredients (for example it can help to stabilize perfumes in watery products) and it can also help to disperse pigments more evenly in makeup products. And that is still not all: it can also boost the antimicrobial activity of preservatives. We don't have description for this ingredient yet. A cellulose (the big molecule found in the cell wall of green plants) derivative that is used as an emulsion stabilizer and thickener. If life gives the cosmetic industry lemon, it makes lemon fruit extract. As to why, we can write here extremely similar things to our shiny description of orange fruit extract. Being both of them citruses, they contain very similar active compounds with very similar (potential) effects on the skin. Just like orange fruit, lemon fruit also contains citric acid so it is commonly used as a natural, mild exfoliating agent. If this is the case, it is usually combined with other AHA containing fruit extracts such as bilberry, sugar cane, orange, and sugar what‑it‑does skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. moisturizer/humectant | solvent abrasive/scrub emollient | viscosity controlling moisturizer/humectant soothing | antioxidant | moisturizer/humectant emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing emollient | perfuming | solvent surfactant/cleansing | viscosity controlling

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