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GRAVICH Red Resveratrol Lifting Serum
GRAVICH Red Resveratrol Lifting Serum GRAVICH Red Resveratrol Lifting Serum ingredients explained: Deionized Water, Niacinamide, Glycerin, Butylene Glycol, Hamamelis Virginiana (Witch Hazel) Leaf Water, Panthenol, Phenoxyethanol, Acacia Senegal Gum, Xanthan Gu
GRAVICH Red Resveratrol Lifting Serum GRAVICH Red Resveratrol Lifting Serum ingredients explained: Deionized Water, Niacinamide, Glycerin, Butylene Glycol, Hamamelis Virginiana (Witch Hazel) Leaf Water, Panthenol, Phenoxyethanol, Acacia Senegal Gum, Xanthan Gum, Disodium EDTA, Chlorphenesin, Ceramide 2, Saccharide Isomerate, Allyl Methacrylates Crosspolymer, Pullulan, L-Carnitine, Algae Extract, Monascus Extract Show all ingredients by function Deionized Water solvent Niacinamide cell-communicating ingredient, skin brightening, anti-acne, moisturizer/humectant superstar Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/humectant 0, 0 Butylene Glycol moisturizer/humectant, solvent 0, 1 Hamamelis Virginiana (Witch Hazel) Leaf Water soothing, antimicrobial/antibacterial Panthenol soothing, moisturizer/humectant goodie Phenoxyethanol preservative Acacia Senegal Gum Xanthan Gum viscosity controlling Disodium EDTA chelating Chlorphenesin preservative, antimicrobial/antibacterial Ceramide 2 skin-identical ingredient Saccharide Isomerate moisturizer/humectant Allyl Methacrylates Crosspolymer Pullulan L-Carnitine Algae Extract emollient, moisturizer/humectant Monascus Extract 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 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 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. An easy-to-formulate, commonly used, nice to have ingredient that’s also called pro-vitamin B5. As you might guess from the “pro” part, it’s a precursor to vitamin B5 (whose fanc what‑it‑does cell-communicating ingredient | skin brightening | anti-acne | moisturizer/humectant skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. moisturizer/humectant | solvent soothing | antimicrobial/antibacterial soothing | moisturizer/humectant preservative | antimicrobial/antibacterial moisturizer/humectant emollient | moisturizer/humectant