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Face facts Peptide Radiance Drops
Face facts Peptide Radiance Drops Face facts Peptide Radiance Drops ingredients explained: Water (Aqua), Glycerin, Propylene Glycol, Sodium Hyaluronate, Sorbitan Oleate, Leuconostoc/Radish Root Ferment Lysate Filtrate, Acacia Seyal Gum Extract, Potassium Sorba
Face facts Peptide Radiance Drops Face facts Peptide Radiance Drops ingredients explained: Water (Aqua), Glycerin, Propylene Glycol, Sodium Hyaluronate, Sorbitan Oleate, Leuconostoc/Radish Root Ferment Lysate Filtrate, Acacia Seyal Gum Extract, Potassium Sorbate, Tocopherol, Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Water, Faex Extract, Carica Papaya (Papaya) Fruit Extract, Betaine, Dimethicone, Trehalose, Carbomer, Triethanolamine, Phenoxyethanol, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Sodium Acrylate/Sodium Acryloyldimethyl Taurate Copolymer, Hydrogenated Polyisobutene, Hydroxyacetophenone, Panthenol, Isohexadecane, Chlorphenesin, Polysorbate 80, Fragrance (Parfum), Nonapeptide-1, Papain, Beta-Glucan, Butylene Glycol, Ethylhexylglycerin, Palmitoyl Tripeptide-5, Polysorbate 20, Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-7, Palmitoyl Tripeptide-1, Linalool Show all ingredients by function Water (Aqua) solvent Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/humectant 0, 0 superstar Propylene Glycol moisturizer/humectant, solvent Sodium Hyaluronate goodie Sorbitan Oleate emulsifying 0, 3 Leuconostoc/Radish Root Ferment Lysate Filtrate Acacia Seyal Gum Extract moisturizer/humectant Potassium Sorbate preservative Tocopherol antioxidant 0-3, 0-3 Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Water Faex Extract Carica Papaya (Papaya) Fruit Extract Betaine Dimethicone emollient 0, 1 Trehalose Carbomer viscosity controlling Triethanolamine buffering 0, 2 Phenoxyethanol Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride Sodium Acrylate/Sodium Acryloyldimethyl Taurate Copolymer Hydrogenated Polyisobutene emollient, viscosity controlling 2, 1 Hydroxyacetophenone antioxidant, preservative Panthenol soothing, moisturizer/humectant Isohexadecane emollient, solvent Chlorphenesin preservative, antimicrobial/antibacterial Polysorbate 80 emulsifying, surfactant/cleansing Fragrance (Parfum) perfuming icky Nonapeptide-1 Papain Beta-Glucan Butylene Glycol Ethylhexylglycerin Palmitoyl Tripeptide-5 cell-communicating ingredient Polysorbate 20 Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-7 Palmitoyl Tripeptide-1 Linalool 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 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) It’s the - sodium form - cousin of the famous NMF, hyaluronic acid (HA). If HA does not tell you anything we have a super detailed, geeky explanation about it here. The TL; DR version of HA is that it's a huge polymer (big molecule from repeated subunits) found in the skin that acts as a sponge helping the skin to hold onto water, being plump and elastic. HA is famous for its crazy water holding capacity as it can bind up to 1000 times its own weight in water. As far as skincare goes, sodium hyaluronate and hyaluronic acid are pretty much the same and the two names are used interchangeably. As cosmetic chemist kindofstephen writes on reddit "sodium hyaluronate disassociates into hyaluronic acid molecule and a sodium atom in solution". In spite of this, if you search for "hyaluronic acid vs sodium hyaluronate" you will find on multiple places that sodium hyaluronate is smaller and can penetrate the skin better. Chemically, this is definitely not true, as the two forms are almost the same, both are polymers and the subunits can be repeated in both forms as much as you like. (We also checked Prospector for sodium hyaluronate versions actually used in cosmetic products and found that the most common molecular weight was 1.5-1.8 million Da that absolutely counts as high molecular weight). What seems to be a true difference, though, is that the salt form is more stable, easier to formulate and cheaper so it pops up more often on the ingredient lists. If you wanna become a real HA-and-the-skin expert you can read way more about what‑it‑does skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. moisturizer/humectant | solvent moisturizer/humectant emollient | viscosity controlling antioxidant | preservative soothing | moisturizer/humectant emollient | solvent preservative | antimicrobial/antibacterial emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing