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HealthyDerm Ghk-cu Whipped Tallow Honey Balm With Methylene Blue
HealthyDerm Ghk-cu Whipped Tallow Honey Balm With Methylene Blue HealthyDerm Ghk-cu Whipped Tallow Honey Balm With Methylene Blue ingredients explained: Beef Tallow (Grass-Fed), Manuka Honey (Raw & Unfiltered), Jojoba Oil (Cold-Pressed& Unrefined), Vitamin E (
HealthyDerm Ghk-cu Whipped Tallow Honey Balm With Methylene Blue HealthyDerm Ghk-cu Whipped Tallow Honey Balm With Methylene Blue ingredients explained: Beef Tallow (Grass-Fed), Manuka Honey (Raw & Unfiltered), Jojoba Oil (Cold-Pressed& Unrefined), Vitamin E (Natural Tocopherol From Sunflower Oil), GHK-Cu Copper Peptides, Methylene Blue Show all ingredients by function Beef Tallow (Grass-Fed) Manuka Honey (Raw & Unfiltered) soothing, moisturizer/humectant, antimicrobial/antibacterial goodie Jojoba Oil (Cold-Pressed& Unrefined) emollient 0, 0-2 Vitamin E (Natural Tocopherol From Sunflower Oil) antioxidant 0-3, 0-3 GHK-Cu Copper Peptides cell-communicating ingredient, soothing, antioxidant We don't have description for this ingredient yet. We all know honey as the sweet, gooey stuff that is lovely to sweeten a good cup of tea and we have good news about putting honey all over our skin. It is just as lovely on the skin as it is in the tea. The great review article about honey in the Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology writes that it is arguably the oldest skincare ingredient and evidence from around 4500 BC mentions honey in some eye cream recipes. Chemically speaking, it is a bee-derived, supersaturated sugar solution. About 95% of honey dry weight is sugar and the other 5% consists of a great number of other minor components including proteins, amino acids, vitamins, enzymes, and minerals. Expand to read more This unique and complex chemical composition gives honey a bunch of nice skin care properties: it is very moisturizing, has soothing and antioxidant abilities as well as significant antibacterial and antifungal magic powers. There is also a lot of empirical evidence with emerging scientific backup that honey dressing promotes the healing of wounds and burns. One tricky thing about honey though, is that it can have lots of different floral sources and different types of honey have a somewhat different composition and thus somewhat different properties. For example, the darker the honey the richer it is in antioxidant phenolic compounds. Two special types of honey are acacia and manuka. The former is unique and popular because of its higher than usual fructose content that makes it more water-soluble and easier to stabilize in cosmetic formulas. The latter comes from the Leptospermum Scoparium tree native to New Zeland and its special thing is its extra strong antibacterial power due to a unique component called methylglyoxal. Overall, honey is a real skin-goodie in pretty much every shape and form, and it is a nice one to spot on the ingredient list. Jojoba is a drought resistant evergreen shrub native to South-western North America. It's known and grown for jojoba oil, the golden yellow liquid coming from the seeds (about 50% of the weight of the seeds will be oil). At first glance, it seems like your average emollient plant oil: it looks like an oil and it's nourishing and moisturizing to the skin but if we dig a bit deeper, it turns out that jojoba oil is really special and unique: technically - or rather chemically - it's not an oil but a wax ester (and calling it an oil is kind of sloppy). So what the heck is a wax ester and why is that important anyway? Well, to understand what a wax ester is, you first have to know that oils are chemically triglycerides: one glycerin + three fatty acids attached to it. The fatty acids attached to the glycerin vary and thus we have many kinds of oils, but they are all triglycerides. Mother Nature created triglycerides to be easily hydrolyzed (be broken down to a glycerin + 3 fatty acid molecules) and oxidized (the fatty acid is broken down into small parts) - this happens basically when we e what‑it‑does soothing | moisturizer/humectant | antimicrobial/antibacterial irritancy, com. cell-communicating ingredient | soothing | antioxidant