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Glymed Plus Peptide Serum

Glymed Plus Peptide Serum Glymed Plus Peptide Serum ingredients explained: Water, Glycerin, Pentylene Glycol, Polysorbate 20, Sodium Hyaluronate, Palmitoyl Tripeptide-1, Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-7, Acetyl Sh-Heptapeptide-1, Copper Tripeptide-1, Panthenol, Glycer

Glymed Plus Peptide Serum Glymed Plus Peptide Serum ingredients explained: Water, Glycerin, Pentylene Glycol, Polysorbate 20, Sodium Hyaluronate, Palmitoyl Tripeptide-1, Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-7, Acetyl Sh-Heptapeptide-1, Copper Tripeptide-1, Panthenol, Glycereth-26, Sorbitol, Butylene Glycol, Dimethyl MEA, Glycine, Hydrolyzed Soy Protein, Hydrogenated Lecithin, Phenol, Alcohol, Propanediol, Rosa Centifolia (Cabbage Rose) Water, Malus Domestica Fruit Cell Culture Extract, Rosmarinus Officinalis (Rosemary) Leaf Extract, Camellia Sinensis (Green Tea) Leaf Extract, Hibiscus Abelmoschus Extract, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter, Rose Centifolia (Rose) Oil, Moringa Oleifera Seed Oil, Tetrahexyldecyl Ascorbate, Lecithin, Xanthan Gum, Carbomer, Caprylyl Glycol, Hexylene Glycol, Phenoxyethanol, Ethylhexylglycerin, Sodium Hydroxide Show all ingredients by function Water solvent Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Pentylene Glycol solvent, moisturizer/​humectant Polysorbate 20 emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing Sodium Hyaluronate goodie Palmitoyl Tripeptide-1 cell-communicating ingredient Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-7 Acetyl Sh-Heptapeptide-1 Copper Tripeptide-1 cell-communicating ingredient, soothing, antioxidant Panthenol soothing, moisturizer/​humectant Glycereth-26 moisturizer/​humectant, emollient, viscosity controlling Sorbitol moisturizer/​humectant Butylene Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, solvent 0, 1 Dimethyl MEA buffering Glycine skin-identical ingredient Hydrolyzed Soy Protein Hydrogenated Lecithin emollient, emulsifying Phenol Alcohol antimicrobial/​antibacterial, solvent, viscosity controlling icky Propanediol Rosa Centifolia (Cabbage Rose) Water Malus Domestica Fruit Cell Culture Extract Rosmarinus Officinalis (Rosemary) Leaf Extract antioxidant, soothing, antimicrobial/​antibacterial Camellia Sinensis (Green Tea) Leaf Extract antioxidant, soothing Hibiscus Abelmoschus Extract Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter emollient Rose Centifolia (Rose) Oil Moringa Oleifera Seed Oil Tetrahexyldecyl Ascorbate antioxidant, skin brightening Lecithin Xanthan Gum viscosity controlling Carbomer Caprylyl Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, emollient Hexylene Glycol solvent, emulsifying, perfuming, surfactant/​cleansing 0-1, 0-2 Phenoxyethanol preservative Ethylhexylglycerin Sodium Hydroxide 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 A multi-functional, silky feeling helper ingredient that can do quite many things. It's used as an emulsion stabilizer, solvent and a broad spectrum antimicrobial. According to manufacturer info, it's also a moisturizer and helps to make the product feel great on the skin. It works synergistically with preservatives and helps to improve water-resistance of sunscreens. It's a common little helper ingredient that helps water and oil to mix together. Also, it can help to increase the solubility of some other ingredients in the formula. 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 much the same and the two names are used interchangeably. As cosmetic chemist kindofstephen writes on reddit "sodium hyaluronate disassociates into hyaluronic acid molecule and a sodium atom in solution". In spite of this, if you search for "hyaluronic acid vs sodium hyaluronate" you will find on multiple places that sodium hyaluronate is smaller and can penetrate the skin better. Chemically, this is definitely not true, as the two forms are almost the same, both are polymers and the subunits can be repeated in both forms as much as you like. (We also checked Prospector for sodium hyaluronate versions actually used in cosmetic products and found that the most common molecular weight was 1.5-1.8 million Da that absolutely counts as high molecular weight). 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