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grá I Am Timeless Peptide Serum

grá I Am Timeless Peptide Serum grá I Am Timeless Peptide Serum ingredients explained: Aqua/Water/Eau, Butylene Glycol, Squalane, Glycerin, Pentaerythrityl Tetraisostearate, Ethylhexylglycerin, Aminopropyl Kojyl Phosphate, Hexanoyl Dipeptide-3 Norleucine Aceta

grá I Am Timeless Peptide Serum grá I Am Timeless Peptide Serum ingredients explained: Aqua/Water/Eau, Butylene Glycol, Squalane, Glycerin, Pentaerythrityl Tetraisostearate, Ethylhexylglycerin, Aminopropyl Kojyl Phosphate, Hexanoyl Dipeptide-3 Norleucine Acetate, Lecithin, Silica Dimethyl Silylate, Sodium Chondroitin Sulfate, Polyacrylamide, Atelocollagen, Menthyl Lactate, Macadamia Ternifolia Seed Oil, Corylus Avellana (Hazelnut) Seed Oil, Bulnesia Sarmientoi Wood Oil, Citrus Aurantium Dulcis (Orange) Oil, Citrus Limon (Lemon) Fruit Oil, Fragrance (Parfum), Sodium PCA, Hydroxyethylcellulose, Ammonium Acryloyldimethyltaurate/VP Copolymer, C13-14 Isoparaffin, Laureth-7, Xanthan Gum, Sodium Hyaluronate Crosspolymer, Hydroxypropyl Cyclodextrin, Palmitoyl Tripeptide-38, Disodium EDTA, Citric Acid, Pentylene Glycol, Phenoxyethanol, O-Cymen-5-Ol Show all ingredients by function Aqua/Water/Eau solvent Butylene Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, solvent 0, 1 Squalane skin-identical ingredient, emollient goodie Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Pentaerythrityl Tetraisostearate emollient 0, 2 Ethylhexylglycerin preservative Aminopropyl Kojyl Phosphate Hexanoyl Dipeptide-3 Norleucine Acetate cell-communicating ingredient Lecithin emollient, emulsifying Silica Dimethyl Silylate emollient, viscosity controlling Sodium Chondroitin Sulfate Polyacrylamide viscosity controlling Atelocollagen Menthyl Lactate icky Macadamia Ternifolia Seed Oil Corylus Avellana (Hazelnut) Seed Oil Bulnesia Sarmientoi Wood Oil Citrus Aurantium Dulcis (Orange) Oil perfuming Citrus Limon (Lemon) Fruit Oil Fragrance (Parfum) Sodium PCA Hydroxyethylcellulose Ammonium Acryloyldimethyltaurate/VP Copolymer C13-14 Isoparaffin emollient, viscosity controlling, solvent Laureth-7 emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing Xanthan Gum Sodium Hyaluronate Crosspolymer skin-identical ingredient, antioxidant, moisturizer/​humectant Hydroxypropyl Cyclodextrin Palmitoyl Tripeptide-38 Disodium EDTA chelating Citric Acid buffering Pentylene Glycol solvent, moisturizer/​humectant Phenoxyethanol O-Cymen-5-Ol preservative, antimicrobial/​antibacterial 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. It seems to us that squalane is in fashion and there is a reason for it. Chemically speaking, it is a saturated (no double bonds) hydrocarbon (a molecule consisting only of carbon and hydrogen), meaning that it's a nice and stable oily liquid with a long shelf life. It occurs naturally in certain fish and plant oils (e.g. olive), and in the sebum (the oily stuff our skin produces) of the human skin. As f.c. puts it in his awesome blog post, squalane's main things are "emolliency, surface occlusion, and TEWL prevention all with extreme cosmetic elegance". In other words, it's a superb moisturizer that makes your skin nice and smooth, without being heavy or greasy. Another advantage of squalane is that it is pretty much compatible with all skin types and skin conditions. It is excellent for acne-prone skin and safe to use even if you have fungi-related skin issues, like seborrhea or fungal acne. The unsaturated (with double bonds) and hence less stable version of Squalane is Squalene, you can read about it here >> 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 liquid emollient derived from isostearic acid that gives a rich, cushiony skin-feel and unusually high levels of gloss. It also has film-forming abilities but without leaving a st what‑it‑does moisturizer/humectant | solvent irritancy, com. skin-identical ingredient | emollient skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant emollient | emulsifying emollient | viscosity controlling emollient | viscosity controlling | solvent emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing skin-identical ingredient | antioxidant | moisturizer/humectant solvent | moisturizer/humectant preservative | antimicrobial/antibacterial

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