Flora & Noor Bright Side Vitamin C And Hyaluronic Acid Serum

Flora & Noor Bright Side Vitamin C And Hyaluronic Acid Serum Flora & Noor Bright Side Vitamin C And Hyaluronic Acid Serum ingredients explained: Aqua (Deionized Water), Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice (Organic Aloe), Sodium Ascorbyl Phosphate (Vitamin C), Dimethyl Sulfone (Msm), Simmondsia Chinensis Seed Oil (Organic Jojoba), Tocopheryl Acetate (Vitamin E), Hyaluronic Acid, Centella Asiatica Extract (Organic Gotu Kola), Equisetum Arvense Extract (Horsetail), Geranium Maculatum Extract (Wild Geranium), Taraxacum Officinale Extract (Organic Dandelion), Glycerin (Kosher Vegetable), Phenoxyethanol Show all ingredients by function Aqua (Deionized Water) solvent Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice (Organic Aloe) soothing, moisturizer/​humectant goodie Sodium Ascorbyl Phosphate (Vitamin C) antioxidant, anti-acne Dimethyl Sulfone (Msm) Simmondsia Chinensis Seed Oil (Organic Jojoba) emollient 0, 0-2 Tocopheryl Acetate (Vitamin E) antioxidant 0, 0 Hyaluronic Acid skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant Centella Asiatica Extract (Organic Gotu Kola) soothing, antioxidant, moisturizer/​humectant Equisetum Arvense Extract (Horsetail) soothing, emollient Geranium Maculatum Extract (Wild Geranium) Taraxacum Officinale Extract (Organic Dandelion) Glycerin (Kosher Vegetable) superstar Phenoxyethanol preservative 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. The sodium salt form of skincare superstar, vitamin C. If you do not know what the big fuss about vitamin C is, you are missing out and you have to click here and read all the geeky details about it. Pure vitamin C (aka ascorbic acid, AA) is great and all, but its lack of stability is a big challenge for the cosmetics industry. One solution is to create stable derivatives that can be absorbed into the skin, convert there to AA and do all the magic AA is proven to do (which is being an antioxidant, a collagen booster, and a skin brightener). SAP (the vit C derivative, not the enterprise software, obvs) is a promising derivative that has great stability up to pH 7. The challenge with it though is skin penetration. Unfortunately, it seems to be limited, or to quote a great article from the Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology "topically applied ascorbyl phosphate salts are, at very best, poorly absorbed in comparison with AA". Regarding conversion to AA, there seems to be no data about it, so we can neither deny nor confirm it. We have better news regarding the three magic abilities of vitamin C: there is in-vivo (tested on real people) data showing that SAP does have photo-protective (aka antioxidant) properties, though less than pure AA. SAP might also aid collagen boosting; in-vitro (made in the lab) data shows that it works, but is less effective than another vitamin C derivative, called MAP (that seems to be as effective as pure AA). As for skin-brightening, there is a trade publication with in-vivo data showing that SAP can fade brown spots. Another thing SAP might be able to do is to help with acne. A 2005 study showed in vitro (in test tubes) that 1% SAP has a strong antimicrobial activity on evil acne causing P. acnes and it also showed in what‑it‑does soothing | moisturizer/humectant antioxidant | anti-acne irritancy, com. skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant soothing | antioxidant | moisturizer/humectant soothing | emollient

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