For Skin's Sake Hyaluronic Acid Serum

For Skin's Sake Hyaluronic Acid Serum For Skin's Sake Hyaluronic Acid Serum ingredients explained: Aqua, Hamamelis Virginiana Water, Cassia Angustifolia Seed Polysaccharide, Glycerin, Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Extract, Dimethyl Sulfone, Tocopheryl Acetate, Simmondsia Chinensis Oil, Pelargonium Graveolens Oil, Camellia Sinensis Extract, Centella Asiatica Extract, Equisetum Arvense Extract, Taraxacum Officinale Extract, Geranium Maculatum Extract, Hydroxyethyl Ethylcellulose, Carrageenan Gum, Sodium Benzoate, Potassium Sorbate, Ethylhexylglycerin Show all ingredients by function Aqua solvent Hamamelis Virginiana Water soothing goodie Cassia Angustifolia Seed Polysaccharide Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Extract soothing, emollient, moisturizer/​humectant Dimethyl Sulfone Tocopheryl Acetate antioxidant Simmondsia Chinensis Oil emollient 0, 0-2 Pelargonium Graveolens Oil perfuming icky Camellia Sinensis Extract antioxidant, soothing Centella Asiatica Extract soothing, antioxidant, moisturizer/​humectant Equisetum Arvense Extract soothing, emollient Taraxacum Officinale Extract Geranium Maculatum Extract Hydroxyethyl Ethylcellulose emulsifying, viscosity controlling Carrageenan Gum viscosity controlling Sodium Benzoate preservative Potassium Sorbate Ethylhexylglycerin 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. 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 >> We don't have description for this ingredient yet. 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 extract coming from the juice containing leaves of the Aloe vera plant. It's usually a hydroglycolic extract (though oil extract for the lipid parts also exists) that has similar moisturizing, emollient and anti-inflammatory properties as the juice itself. We have written some more about aloe here. It’s the most commonly used version of pure vitamin E in cosmetics. You can read all about the pure form here. This one is the so-called esterified version. According to famous dermatologist, Leslie Baumann while tocopheryl acetate is more stable and has a longer shelf life, it’s also more poorly absorbed by the skin and may not have the same awesome photoprotective effects as pure Vit E. Jojoba is a drought resistant evergreen shrub native to South-western North America. It's known and grown for jojoba oil, the golden yellow liquid coming from the seeds (about 50% of the weight of the seeds will be oil). At first glance, it seems like your average emollient plant oil: it looks like an oil and it's nourishing and moisturizing to the skin but if we dig a bit deeper, it turns out that jojoba oil is really special and uni what‑it‑does skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. soothing | emollient | moisturizer/humectant antioxidant | soothing soothing | antioxidant | moisturizer/humectant soothing | emollient emulsifying | viscosity controlling

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