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Farm Stay Black Snail & Peptide 9 Toner

Farm Stay Black Snail & Peptide 9 Toner Farm Stay Black Snail & Peptide 9 Toner ingredients explained: Water, 1,2-Hexanediol, Butylene Glycol, Niacinamide, Alcohol, Glycerin, PEG-60 Hydrogenated Castor Oil, Sodium Citrate, Adenosine, Rosa Damascena Flower Wate

Farm Stay Black Snail & Peptide 9 Toner Farm Stay Black Snail & Peptide 9 Toner ingredients explained: Water, 1,2-Hexanediol, Butylene Glycol, Niacinamide, Alcohol, Glycerin, PEG-60 Hydrogenated Castor Oil, Sodium Citrate, Adenosine, Rosa Damascena Flower Water, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Disodium EDTA, Citric Acid, Parfum (Fragrance ), Olea Europaea (Olive) Fruit Oil, Hydrogenated Lecithin, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter, Squalane, Cholesterol, Portulaca Oleracea Extract, Acetylphytosphingosine, Ceramide NP, Snail Secretion Filtrate, Ethyl Hexanediol, Hexapeptide-9, Hexapeptide-11, Palmitoyl Pentapeptide-4, Palmitoyl Tripeptide-1, Acetyl Hexapeptide-8, Alanine/Histidine/Lysine Polypeptide Copper HCL, Copper Tripeptide-1, Nonapeptide-1 Show all ingredients by function Water solvent 1,2-Hexanediol Butylene Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, solvent 0, 1 Niacinamide cell-communicating ingredient, skin brightening, anti-acne, moisturizer/​humectant superstar Alcohol antimicrobial/​antibacterial, solvent, viscosity controlling icky Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 PEG-60 Hydrogenated Castor Oil emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing Sodium Citrate chelating, buffering Adenosine cell-communicating ingredient goodie Rosa Damascena Flower Water Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride emollient Disodium EDTA chelating Citric Acid buffering Parfum (Fragrance ) perfuming Olea Europaea (Olive) Fruit Oil antioxidant, emollient 0, 0-2 Hydrogenated Lecithin emollient, emulsifying Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter Squalane skin-identical ingredient, emollient Cholesterol Portulaca Oleracea Extract soothing, antioxidant Acetylphytosphingosine Ceramide NP skin-identical ingredient Snail Secretion Filtrate antioxidant, moisturizer/​humectant Ethyl Hexanediol Hexapeptide-9 Hexapeptide-11 Palmitoyl Pentapeptide-4 Palmitoyl Tripeptide-1 Acetyl Hexapeptide-8 cell-communicating ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant Alanine/Histidine/Lysine Polypeptide Copper HCL Copper Tripeptide-1 cell-communicating ingredient, soothing, antioxidant Nonapeptide-1 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 really multi-functional helper ingredient that can do several things in a skincare product: it can bring a soft and pleasant feel to the formula, it can act as a humectant and emollient, it can be a solvent for some other ingredients (for example it can help to stabilize perfumes in watery products) and it can also help to disperse pigments more evenly in makeup products. And that is still not all: it can also boost the antimicrobial activity of preservatives. Butylene glycol, or let’s just call it BG, is a multi-tasking colorless, syrupy liquid. It’s a great pick for creating a nice feeling product. BG’s main job is usually to be a solvent for the other ingredients. Other tasks include helping the product to absorb faster and deeper into the skin (penetration enhancer), making the product spread nicely over the skin (slip agent), and attracting water (humectant) into the skin. It’s an ingredient whose safety hasn’t been questioned so far by anyone (at least not that we know about). BG is approved by Ecocert and is also used enthusiastically in natural products. BTW, it’s also a food additive. A multi-functional skincare superstar with several proven benefits for the skin Great anti-aging, wrinkle smoothing ingredient used at 4-5% concentration Fades brown spots alone or in combination with amino sugar, acetyl glucosamine Increases ceramide synthesis that results in a stronger, healthier skin barrier and better skin hydration Can help to improve several skin conditions including acne, rosacea, and atopic dermatitis Simply alcohol refers to ethanol and it's a pretty controversial ingredient. It has many instant benefits: it's a great solvent, penetration enhancer, creates cosmetically elegant, light formulas, great astringent and antimicrobial. No wonder it's popular in toners and oily skin formulas. The downside is that it can be very drying if it's in the first few ingredients on an ingredient list. Some experts even think that regular exposure to alcohol damages skin barrier and causes inflammation though it's a debated opinion. If you wanna know more, we wrote a more detailed explanation about what's the deal with alcohol in skincare products at alcohol denat. (it's also alcohol, but with some additives to make sure no one drinks it). A natural moisturizer that’s also in our skin A super common what‑it‑does moisturizer/humectant | solvent irritancy, com. cell-communicating ingredient | skin brightening | anti-acne | moisturizer/humectant antimicrobial/antibacterial | solvent | viscosity controlling skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing chelating | buffering antioxidant | emollient emollient | emulsifying skin-identical ingredient | emollient soothing | antioxidant antioxidant | moisturizer/humectant cell-communicating ingredient | moisturizer/humectant cell-communicating ingredient | soothing | antioxidant

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