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Evde Hyaluronic Acid + Collagen Serum
Evde Hyaluronic Acid + Collagen Serum Evde Hyaluronic Acid + Collagen Serum ingredients explained: Aqua, Propylene Glycol, Collagen, Arginine, Polysorbate 20, Acetyl Hexapeptide-8, Caprylyl Glycol, Sodium Hyaluronate, Phenoxyethanol, Ethylhexylglycerin, Carbox
Evde Hyaluronic Acid + Collagen Serum Evde Hyaluronic Acid + Collagen Serum ingredients explained: Aqua, Propylene Glycol, Collagen, Arginine, Polysorbate 20, Acetyl Hexapeptide-8, Caprylyl Glycol, Sodium Hyaluronate, Phenoxyethanol, Ethylhexylglycerin, Carboxymethylcellulose, Caviar Extract Show all ingredients by function Aqua solvent Propylene Glycol moisturizer/humectant, solvent 0, 0 Collagen moisturizer/humectant goodie Arginine skin-identical ingredient Polysorbate 20 emulsifying, surfactant/cleansing Acetyl Hexapeptide-8 cell-communicating ingredient, moisturizer/humectant Caprylyl Glycol moisturizer/humectant, emollient Sodium Hyaluronate skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/humectant Phenoxyethanol preservative Ethylhexylglycerin Carboxymethylcellulose viscosity controlling Caviar Extract 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. It's a helper ingredient that improves the freeze-thaw stability of products It's also a solvent, humectant and to some extent a penetration enhancer It has a bad reputation among natural cosmetics advocates but cosmetic scientists and toxicology experts do not agree (read more in the geeky details section) The big and important protein molecule that usually comes from animal skin such as fish or bovine. The gist of the "collagen in topical skincare" subject is to know that collagen in a jar has nothing to do with wrinkles but everything to do with skin hydration. We have a shiny explanation about this at soluble collagen, so click here to read more >> A semi-essential (infants cannot synthesize it, but adults can) amino acid that is one of the primary building blocks of hair keratin and skin collagen. It's a natural moisturizing factor, a skin hydrator and might also help to speed up wound healing. Arginine usually has a positive charge (cationic) that makes it substantive to skin and hair (those are more negatively charged surfaces) and an excellent film former. Thanks to the positive charge, it also creates a complex with AHAs (AHAs like to lose a hydrogen ion and be negatively charged, so the positive and the negative ions attract each other) that causes a "time-release AHA effect" and reduces the irritation associated with AHAs. It's a common little helper ingredient that helps water and oil to mix together. Also, it can help to increase the solubility of some other ingredients in the formula. If you see a cosmetic product that claims that it has "Botox-like effect" then two things are almost certain: one, the product overpromises and two, it contains Argireline. So this one is the famous peptide that's marketed by its manufacturer as the "Botox in a jar". The basis for this claim is that it targets the same wrinkle forming mechanism (wrinkles caused by facial muscle movement) as Botox, but the way it works is very different. In addition, the extent to which it can prevent muscles from contracting (and to smooth wrinkles) is very different (otherwise why would anyone use still Botox?). The manufacturer did several studies to prove that Argireline really works and it does (just not as well as Botox). In-vivo (made on real people) tests showed that using 10% Argireline solution around the eyes fo what‑it‑does moisturizer/humectant | solvent irritancy, com. moisturizer/humectant emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing cell-communicating ingredient | moisturizer/humectant moisturizer/humectant | emollient skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant