Garden of Wisdom Progeline Peptide Repair Serum (Discontinued)

Garden of Wisdom Progeline Peptide Repair Serum (Discontinued) Garden of Wisdom Progeline Peptide Repair Serum ingredients explained: Glacier Water, Butylene Glycol, Dioscorea Villosa (Wild Yam) Root Extract, Elastin, Oat Beta-Glucan, Progeline (Glycerin, Aqua, Dextran, Trifluoroacetyl Tripeptide-2), Syn-Coll (Palmitoyl Tripeptide-5), Lactobacillus Ferment, Resveratrol, Superoxide Dismutase Show all ingredients by function Glacier Water solvent Butylene Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, solvent 0, 1 Dioscorea Villosa (Wild Yam) Root Extract Elastin Oat Beta-Glucan soothing, moisturizer/​humectant goodie Progeline (Glycerin, Aqua, Dextran, Trifluoroacetyl Tripeptide-2) cell-communicating ingredient Lactobacillus Ferment soothing, preservative Resveratrol antioxidant Superoxide Dismutase 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. 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. We don't have description for this ingredient yet. Beta-Glucan is a nice big molecule composed of many smaller sugar molecules (called polysaccharide). It’s in the cell walls of yeast, some mushrooms, seaweeds, and cereals. It’s a real goodie no matter if you eat it or put it on your face. Eating it is anti-diabetic, anti-cancer, and even lowers blood cholesterol. Putting it on your face also does a bunch of good things: it‘s shown to have intensive skin repairing & wound healing properties, it’s a mild antioxidant, a great skin soother, and moisturizer, and it even shows promising anti-aging benefits. The manufacturer of the ingredient did a published study with 27 people and examined the effect of 0.1% beta-glucan. They found that despite the large molecular size the smaller factions of beta-glucan penetrate into the skin, even into the dermis (the middle layer of the skin where wrinkles form). After 8 weeks there was a significant reduction of wrinkle depth and height and skin roughness has also improved greatly. Bottom line: Beta-glucan is a great ingredient, especially for sensitive or damaged skin. It soothes, moisturizes, and has some anti-aging magic properties. A 3 amino-acid peptide that works by inhibiting the production of progerin, a cell-aging accelerator protein. The manufacturer claims that Trifluoroacetyl Tripeptide-2 can bring back cell activity to a 20-year-old young cell level and the ingredient can nicely increase skin elasticity, firmness and reduce skin-sagging. In their in-vivo (made on real people) tests, they found that 2% Progeline cream can lift the sagging jaw-line by up to 10% in 56 days and improve skin elasticity and firmness by about what‑it‑does moisturizer/humectant | solvent irritancy, com. soothing | moisturizer/humectant soothing | preservative

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