Eva Naturals Matrixyl 3000 Argireline Vitamin C Serum

Eva Naturals Matrixyl 3000 Argireline Vitamin C Serum Eva Naturals Matrixyl 3000 Argireline Vitamin C Serum ingredients explained: Water, Glycerin, Xanthan Gum, Sodium Ascorbyl Phosphate (Vitamin C), Acetyl Hexapeptide-8, Palmitoyl Tripeptide-1, Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-7, Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice, Sodium Hyaluronate, [Hyaluronic Acid), Sclerotium Gum, Acetic Acid, Polysorbate 20, Butylene Glycol, Carbomer, Potassium Sorbate, Sodium Benzoate, Phenoxyethanol Show all ingredients by function Water solvent Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Xanthan Gum viscosity controlling Sodium Ascorbyl Phosphate (Vitamin C) antioxidant, anti-acne goodie Acetyl Hexapeptide-8 cell-communicating ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant Palmitoyl Tripeptide-1 cell-communicating ingredient Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-7 Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice soothing, moisturizer/​humectant Sodium Hyaluronate [Hyaluronic Acid) Sclerotium Gum Acetic Acid buffering Polysorbate 20 emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing Butylene Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, solvent 0, 1 Carbomer Potassium Sorbate preservative Sodium Benzoate Phenoxyethanol 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 It's one of the most commonly used thickeners and emulsion stabilizers. If the product is too runny, a little xanthan gum will make it more gel-like. Used alone, it can make the formula sticky and it is a good team player so it is usually combined with other thickeners and so-called rheology modifiers (helper ingredients that adjust the flow and thus the feel of the formula). The typical use level of Xantha Gum is below 1%, it is usually in the 0.1-0.5% range. Btw, Xanthan gum is all natural, a chain of sugar molecules (polysaccharide) produced from individual sugar molecules (glucose and sucrose) via fermentation. It’s approved by Ecocert and also used in the food industry (E415). 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 what‑it‑does skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. antioxidant | anti-acne cell-communicating ingredient | moisturizer/humectant soothing | moisturizer/humectant emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing moisturizer/humectant | solvent

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