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Global Beauty Care Peptide Jelly Moisturizer

Global Beauty Care Peptide Jelly Moisturizer Global Beauty Care Peptide Jelly Moisturizer ingredients explained: Aqua/Water/Eau, Glycerin, Propylene Glycol, Propanediol, Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer, Arginine, Carnosine, Allantoin, Phenoxyethan

Global Beauty Care Peptide Jelly Moisturizer Global Beauty Care Peptide Jelly Moisturizer ingredients explained: Aqua/Water/Eau, Glycerin, Propylene Glycol, Propanediol, Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer, Arginine, Carnosine, Allantoin, Phenoxyethanol, Caprylhydroxamic Acid, Glyceryl Caprylate, Disodium EDTA, Ethylhexylglycerin, Acetyl Hexapeptide-1 Show all ingredients by function Aqua/Water/Eau solvent Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Propylene Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, solvent Propanediol solvent, moisturizer/​humectant Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer viscosity controlling Arginine skin-identical ingredient goodie Carnosine antioxidant, cell-communicating ingredient Allantoin soothing Phenoxyethanol preservative Caprylhydroxamic Acid chelating Glyceryl Caprylate Disodium EDTA Ethylhexylglycerin Acetyl Hexapeptide-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 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 It's a helper ingredient that improves the freeze-thaw stability of products It's also a solvent, humectant and to some extent a penetration enhancer It has a bad reputation among natural cosmetics advocates but cosmetic scientists and toxicology experts do not agree (read more in the geeky details section) Propanediol is a natural alternative for the often used and often bad-mouthed propylene glycol. It's produced sustainably from corn sugar and it's Ecocert approved. It's quite a multi-tasker: can be used to improve skin moisturization, as a solvent, to boost preservative efficacy or to influence the sensory properties of the end formula. Though its long name does not reveal it, this polymer molecule (big molecule from repeated subunits or monomers) is a relative to the super common, water-loving thickener, Carbomer. Both of them are big molecules that contain acrylic acid units, but Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer also contains some other monomers that are hydrophobic, i.e. water-hating. This means that our molecule is part water- and part oil-loving, so it not only works as a thickener but also as an emulsion stabilizer. It is very common in gel-type formulas that also contain an oil-phase as well as in cleansers as it also works with most cleansing agents (unlike a lot of other thickeners). A semi-essential (infants cannot synthesize it, but adults can) amino acid that is one of the primary building blocks of hair keratin and skin collagen. It's a natural moisturizing factor, a skin hydrator and might also help to speed up wound healing. Arginine usually has a positive charge (cationic) that makes it substantive to skin and hair (those are more negatively charged surfaces) and an excellent film former. Thanks to the positive charge, it also creates a complex with AHAs (AHAs like to lose a hydrogen ion and what‑it‑does skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. moisturizer/humectant | solvent solvent | moisturizer/humectant antioxidant | cell-communicating ingredient

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