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First Aid Beauty Detox Eye Roller

First Aid Beauty Detox Eye Roller First Aid Beauty Detox Eye Roller ingredients explained: Water (Aqua), Glycerin, Hamamelis Virginiana (Witch Hazel) Water, Butylene Glycol, Sodium Hyaluronate, Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract, Chrysanthemum Parthenium (Feverfew

First Aid Beauty Detox Eye Roller First Aid Beauty Detox Eye Roller ingredients explained: Water (Aqua), Glycerin, Hamamelis Virginiana (Witch Hazel) Water, Butylene Glycol, Sodium Hyaluronate, Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract, Chrysanthemum Parthenium (Feverfew) Extract, Glycyrrhiza Glabra (Licorice) Root Extract, Palmitoyl Hydrolyzed Wheat Protein, Palmitoyl Oligopeptide, Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-7, Ethoxydiglycol, Polysorbate 20, Caffeine, Menthyl Lactate, PEG-12 Dimethicone, Aminomethyl Propanol, Carbomer, Benzoic Acid, Caprylyl Glycol, Phenoxyethanol, Mica (Ci 77019), Titanium Dioxide (Ci 77891) Show all ingredients by function Water (Aqua) solvent Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Hamamelis Virginiana (Witch Hazel) Water soothing goodie Butylene Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, solvent 0, 1 Sodium Hyaluronate Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract antioxidant, soothing Chrysanthemum Parthenium (Feverfew) Extract Glycyrrhiza Glabra (Licorice) Root Extract soothing, skin brightening Palmitoyl Hydrolyzed Wheat Protein surfactant/​cleansing, surfactant/​cleansing Palmitoyl Oligopeptide cell-communicating ingredient Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-7 Ethoxydiglycol solvent, moisturizer/​humectant, perfuming Polysorbate 20 emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing Caffeine antioxidant, perfuming Menthyl Lactate icky PEG-12 Dimethicone Aminomethyl Propanol buffering Carbomer viscosity controlling Benzoic Acid preservative Caprylyl Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, emollient Phenoxyethanol Mica (Ci 77019) colorant Titanium Dioxide (Ci 77891) 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 The distillate created from different parts of the hazelnut-bush-like magic tree, commonly called Witch Hazel. Hamamelis Virginiana Water is a bit of a sloppy ingredient name as the leaves, the twigs and the bark can be used to create extracts or distillates and the different parts contain different amounts of biologically active components. But what you are getting is probably a nice water with astringent, soothing, antioxidant and antibacterial magic properties. We went into great detail about Witch Hazel in cosmetics here, detailing the main biologically active components and how they are different in different parts of the plant. Click here and read more >> 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. 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 what‑it‑does skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. moisturizer/humectant | solvent antioxidant | soothing soothing | skin brightening surfactant/cleansing | surfactant/cleansing solvent | moisturizer/humectant | perfuming emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing antioxidant | perfuming moisturizer/humectant | emollient

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