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Eyetitude Prozerve Peptide Eye Cream

Eyetitude Prozerve Peptide Eye Cream Eyetitude Prozerve Peptide Eye Cream ingredients explained: Aqua (Deionized Water), Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice (Aloe Vera), Cucumis Sativus Fruit Water (Cucumber Hydrosol), Simmondsia Chinensis Seed (Organic Jojoba) Oil, C

Eyetitude Prozerve Peptide Eye Cream Eyetitude Prozerve Peptide Eye Cream ingredients explained: Aqua (Deionized Water), Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice (Aloe Vera), Cucumis Sativus Fruit Water (Cucumber Hydrosol), Simmondsia Chinensis Seed (Organic Jojoba) Oil, Cassia Angustifolia Seed (Plant Based Hyaluronic Acid) Extract, Palmitoyl Tripeptide-5, Polysorbate 20, Glycine, Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-7, Palmitoyl Tripeptide-1, (Sodium PCA, Arginine, Aspartic Acid, Glycine, Alanine, Serine, Valine, Proline, Threonine, Isoleucine, Histidine, Phenylalanine (Peptide Complex)) Vinca Major Extract (Organic Periwinkle), Glycerin (Kosher, Vegetable), Dimethyl Sulfone (Msm), Sodium Lactate, Arginine, Glycyrrhiza Glabra Root Extract (Licorice), Tocopheryl Acetate (Vitamin E), Organic Centella Asiatica Extract (Gotu Kola Extract), Equisetum Arvense Extract (Horsetail Extract), Geranium Maculatum Extract (Wild Geranium), Organic Taraxacum Officinale Extract (Dandelion Extract), Hydroxyethyl Ethylcellulose, Carrageenan, Sodium Benzoate, Potass Show all ingredients by function Aqua (Deionized Water) solvent Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice (Aloe Vera) soothing, moisturizer/​humectant goodie Cucumis Sativus Fruit Water (Cucumber Hydrosol) Simmondsia Chinensis Seed (Organic Jojoba) Oil emollient 0, 0-2 Cassia Angustifolia Seed (Plant Based Hyaluronic Acid) Extract Palmitoyl Tripeptide-5 cell-communicating ingredient Polysorbate 20 emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing 0, 0 Glycine skin-identical ingredient Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-7 Palmitoyl Tripeptide-1 (Sodium PCA, Arginine, Aspartic Acid, Glycine, Alanine, Serine, Valine, Proline, Threonine, Isoleucine, Histidine, Phenylalanine (Peptide Complex)) Vinca Major Extract (Organic Periwinkle) Glycerin (Kosher, Vegetable) skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant superstar Dimethyl Sulfone (Msm) Sodium Lactate buffering, moisturizer/​humectant Arginine Glycyrrhiza Glabra Root Extract (Licorice) soothing, skin brightening Tocopheryl Acetate (Vitamin E) antioxidant Organic Centella Asiatica Extract (Gotu Kola Extract) soothing, antioxidant, moisturizer/​humectant Equisetum Arvense Extract (Horsetail Extract) soothing, emollient Geranium Maculatum Extract (Wild Geranium) Organic Taraxacum Officinale Extract (Dandelion Extract) Hydroxyethyl Ethylcellulose emulsifying, viscosity controlling Carrageenan viscosity controlling Sodium Benzoate preservative Potassium Sorbate 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. Aloe Vera is one of today’s magic plants. It does have some very nice properties indeed, though famous dermatologist Leslie Baumann warns us in her book that most of the evidence is anecdotal and the plant might be a bit overhyped. What research does confirm about Aloe is that it’s a great moisturizer and has several anti-inflammatory (among others contains salicylates, polysaccharides, magnesium lactate and C-glucosyl chromone) as well as some antibacterial components. It also helps wound healing and skin regeneration in general. All in all definitely a goodie. We don't have description for this ingredient yet. Jojoba is a drought resistant evergreen shrub native to South-western North America. It's known and grown for jojoba oil, the golden yellow liquid coming from the seeds (about 50% of the weight of the seeds will be oil). At first glance, it seems like your average emollient plant oil: it looks like an oil and it's nourishing and moisturizing to the skin but if we dig a bit deeper, it turns out that jojoba oil is really special and unique: technically - or rather chemically - it's not an oil but a wax ester (and calling it an oil is kind of sloppy). So what the heck is a wax ester and why is that important anyway? Well, to understand what a wax ester is, you first have to know that oils are chemically triglycerides: one glycerin + three fatty acids attached to it. The fatty acids attached to the glycerin vary and thus we have many kinds of oils, but they are all triglycerides. Mother Nature created triglycerides to be easily hydrolyzed (be broken down to a glycerin + 3 fatty acid molecules) and oxidized (the fatty acid is broken down into small parts) - this happens basically when we eat fats or oils and our body generates energy from it. Mother Nature also created wax esters but for a totally different purpose. Chemically, a wax ester is a fatty acid + a fatty alcohol, one long molecule. Wax esters are on the outer surface of several plant leaves to give them environmental protection. 25-30% of human sebum is also wax esters to give us people environmental protection. So being a wax ester results in a couple of unique properties: First, jojoba oil is extremely stable. Like crazy stable. Even if you heat it to 370 C (698 F) for 96 hours, it does not budge. (Many plant oils tend to go off pret what‑it‑does soothing | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant buffering | moisturizer/humectant soothing | skin brightening soothing | antioxidant | moisturizer/humectant soothing | emollient emulsifying | viscosity controlling

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