facetheory Peptide Firming Night Cream

facetheory Peptide Firming Night Cream facetheory Peptide Firming Night Cream ingredients explained: Aqua, Glycerin, Cetyl Alcohol, Aleurites Moluccana (Kukui) Nut Oil, Glyceryl Stearate, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter Extract, Stearic Acid, Ricinus Communis (Castor) Seed Oil, Adansonia Digitata (Baobab) Seed Oil, Oryza Sativa (Rice) Bran Oil, Sodium Anisate, Sodium Levulinate, Glyceryl Caprylate, Tocopherol, Phospholipids, Cetyl Hydroxyethylcellulose, Melatonin, Argania Spinosa (Argan) Kernel Oil, Xanthan Gum, Lavandula Angustifolia (Lavender) Herb Oil, Dextran, Caprooyl Tetrapeptide-3, Limonene, Linalool Show all ingredients by function Aqua solvent Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Cetyl Alcohol emollient, viscosity controlling 2, 2 Aleurites Moluccana (Kukui) Nut Oil soothing, emollient goodie Glyceryl Stearate emollient, emulsifying 0, 1 Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter Extract emollient, soothing Stearic Acid 0, 2-3 Ricinus Communis (Castor) Seed Oil emollient, perfuming 0, 0-1 Adansonia Digitata (Baobab) Seed Oil emollient Oryza Sativa (Rice) Bran Oil antioxidant, emollient Sodium Anisate antimicrobial/​antibacterial Sodium Levulinate Glyceryl Caprylate preservative Tocopherol antioxidant 0-3, 0-3 Phospholipids skin-identical ingredient, emollient Cetyl Hydroxyethylcellulose viscosity controlling Melatonin Argania Spinosa (Argan) Kernel Oil Xanthan Gum Lavandula Angustifolia (Lavender) Herb Oil antimicrobial/​antibacterial, perfuming icky Dextran Caprooyl Tetrapeptide-3 cell-communicating ingredient Limonene perfuming, solvent Linalool perfuming 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 A so-called fatty (the good, non-drying kind of) alcohol that does all kinds of things in a skincare product: it makes your skin feel smooth and nice (emollient), helps to thicken up products and also helps water and oil to blend (emulsifier). Can be derived from coconut or palm kernel oil. Having such a cool name and coming from Hawaii how could this oil be not good? Well, it is good. It's absorbed excellently by the skin and is used traditionally by the Hawaiians to soothe sunburn and other inflammations. Research confirms this: it's shown to have anti-inflammatory, pain reducing, and wound healing properties. It's also a particularly rich source of moisturizing essential fatty acids linoleic and linolenic (about 42 and 32%) and it's not so rich in oleic acid - around 15% - that can be good even for acne prone skin. A super common, waxy, white, solid stuff that helps water and oil to mix together, gives body to creams and leaves the skin feeling soft and smooth. Chemically speaking, it is the attachment of a glycerin molecule to the fatty acid called stearic acid. It can be produced from most vegetable oils (in oils three fatty acid molecules are attached to glycerin instead of just one like here) in a pretty simple, "green" process that is similar to soap making. It's readily biodegradable. It also occurs naturally in our body and is used as a food additive. As cosmetic chemist Colins writes it, "its safety really is beyond any doubt". A triterpene ester-rich extract that comes from the shea butter. It is claimed to have barrier strengthening and anti-inflammatory properties. It is typically used at 0.5-1% in formulas. A common multi-tasker fatty acid. It makes your skin feel nice and smooth (emollient), gives body to cream type products and helps to stabilize water and oil mixes (aka emulsions). Castor oil is sourced fr what‑it‑does skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. emollient | viscosity controlling soothing | emollient emollient | emulsifying emollient | soothing emollient | perfuming antioxidant | emollient antimicrobial/antibacterial skin-identical ingredient | emollient antimicrobial/antibacterial | perfuming perfuming | solvent

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