Helia-D Professional Lifting Serum With Vitamin C

Helia-D Professional Lifting Serum With Vitamin C Helia-D Professional Lifting Serum With Vitamin C ingredients explained: Aqua (Water), Pentylene Glycol, Oleyl Alcohol, Trisodium Ascorbyl Palmitate Phosphate, Phenoxyethanol, Polyacrylate Crosspolymer-6, Dioscorea Villosa (Wild Yam) Root Extract, Glycine Soja (Soybean) Sterols Show all ingredients by function Aqua (Water) solvent Pentylene Glycol solvent, moisturizer/​humectant Oleyl Alcohol emollient, perfuming, solvent, viscosity controlling 2, 4 Trisodium Ascorbyl Palmitate Phosphate antioxidant Phenoxyethanol preservative Polyacrylate Crosspolymer-6 viscosity controlling Dioscorea Villosa (Wild Yam) Root Extract Glycine Soja (Soybean) Sterols emollient 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, 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. We don't have description for this ingredient yet. It’s pretty much the current IT-preservative. It’s safe and gentle, but even more importantly, it’s not a feared-by-everyone-mostly-without-scientific-reason paraben. It’s not something new: it was introduced around 1950 and today it can be used up to 1% worldwide. It can be found in nature - in green tea - but the version used in cosmetics is synthetic. Other than having a good safety profile and being quite gentle to the skin it has some other advantages too. It can be used in many types of formulations as it has great thermal stability (can be heated up to 85°C) and works on a wide range of pH levels (ph 3-10). It’s often used together with ethylhexylglycerin as it nicely improves the preservative activity of phenoxyethanol. It's a helper ingredient that helps to thicken up formulas and form a nice gel texture. It leaves a rich, elegant feel with a velvety finish on the skin and works over a wide pH range. what‑it‑does solvent | moisturizer/humectant emollient | perfuming | solvent | viscosity controlling irritancy, com.

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