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GRAVICH Blue Peptide Activator Serum

GRAVICH Blue Peptide Activator Serum GRAVICH Blue Peptide Activator Serum ingredients explained: Deionized Water, Glycerin, Butylene Glycol, Hamamelis Virginiana Leaf Water, Niacinamide, Copper Tripeptide-1, Sodium Hyaluronate, Propylene Glycol, Acacia Senegal

GRAVICH Blue Peptide Activator Serum GRAVICH Blue Peptide Activator Serum ingredients explained: Deionized Water, Glycerin, Butylene Glycol, Hamamelis Virginiana Leaf Water, Niacinamide, Copper Tripeptide-1, Sodium Hyaluronate, Propylene Glycol, Acacia Senegal Gum, Xanthan Gum, Gardenia Jasminoides Fruit Extract, Phenoxyethanol Show all ingredients by function Deionized Water solvent Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Butylene Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, solvent 0, 1 Hamamelis Virginiana Leaf Water soothing, antimicrobial/​antibacterial Niacinamide cell-communicating ingredient, skin brightening, anti-acne, moisturizer/​humectant Copper Tripeptide-1 cell-communicating ingredient, soothing, antioxidant goodie Sodium Hyaluronate Propylene Glycol Acacia Senegal Gum Xanthan Gum viscosity controlling Gardenia Jasminoides Fruit Extract colorant Phenoxyethanol preservative 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 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. The distillate created from the leaves of the hazelnut-bush-like-magic-tree commonly called Witch Hazel. The distillate from the leaves is probably the gentlest, most diluted version of any kind of With Hazel ingredient. The leaves contain much, much less active components than the bark (4.77% vs 0.04% tannins) and distillates are more diluted than extracts. So this one is probably just a "fancy-water" that resembles the properties of Witch Hazel Extract (astringent, soothing, antioxidant, antibacterial) in a very mild and gentle way. We have gone into much more details about Witch Hazel here. A multi-functional skincare superstar with several proven benefits for the skin Great anti-aging, wrinkle smoothing ingredient used at 4-5% concentration Fades brown spots alone or in combination with amino sugar, acetyl glucosamine Increases ceramide synthesis that results in a stronger, healthier skin barrier and better skin hydration Can help to improve several skin conditions including acne, rosacea, and atopic dermatitis GHK-Cu is a copper-peptide complex found naturally in yucky bodily fluids (plasma, saliva, and urine) It has unique wound healing properties by stimulating the breakdown of unhea what‑it‑does skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. moisturizer/humectant | solvent soothing | antimicrobial/antibacterial cell-communicating ingredient | skin brightening | anti-acne | moisturizer/humectant cell-communicating ingredient | soothing | antioxidant

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