HydroPeptide Firma Bright

HydroPeptide Firma Bright HydroPeptide Firma Bright ingredients explained: Water, Sodium Ascorbyl Phosphate, Pentylene Glycol, Glycerin, Niacinamide, Propanediol, Carrageenan, Erythritol, Sodium PCA, Xanthan Gum, 1,2-Hexanediol, Hydroxyacetophenone, Acetyl Hexapeptide-8, Caprylyl Glycol, Disodium Phosphate, Sodium Phosphate, Sodium Hyaluronate, Anogeissus Leiocarpus Bark Extract, Sodium Phytate, Hydrangea Arborescens Root Extract, Morus Alba Root Extract, Polysorbate 20, Resveratrol, Scutellaria Lateriflora Extract, Pentapeptide-21, Avena Sativa (Oat) Kernel Extract Show all ingredients by function Water solvent Sodium Ascorbyl Phosphate antioxidant, anti-acne goodie Pentylene Glycol solvent, moisturizer/​humectant Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Niacinamide cell-communicating ingredient, skin brightening, anti-acne, moisturizer/​humectant Propanediol Carrageenan viscosity controlling Erythritol moisturizer/​humectant Sodium PCA Xanthan Gum 1,2-Hexanediol Hydroxyacetophenone antioxidant, preservative Acetyl Hexapeptide-8 cell-communicating ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant Caprylyl Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, emollient Disodium Phosphate buffering Sodium Phosphate Sodium Hyaluronate Anogeissus Leiocarpus Bark Extract Sodium Phytate chelating Hydrangea Arborescens Root Extract Morus Alba Root Extract skin brightening Polysorbate 20 emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing Resveratrol antioxidant Scutellaria Lateriflora Extract Pentapeptide-21 Avena Sativa (Oat) Kernel Extract antioxidant, soothing, emollient, abrasive/​scrub 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. The sodium salt form of skincare superstar, vitamin C. If you do not know what the big fuss about vitamin C is, you are missing out and you have to click here and read all the geeky details about it. Pure vitamin C (aka ascorbic acid, AA) is great and all, but its lack of stability is a big challenge for the cosmetics industry. One solution is to create stable derivatives that can be absorbed into the skin, convert there to AA and do all the magic AA is proven to do (which is being an antioxidant, a collagen booster, and a skin brightener). SAP (the vit C derivative, not the enterprise software, obvs) is a promising derivative that has great stability up to pH 7. The challenge with it though is skin penetration. Unfortunately, it seems to be limited, or to quote a great article from the Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology "topically applied ascorbyl phosphate salts are, at very best, poorly absorbed in comparison with AA". Regarding conversion to AA, there seems to be no data about it, so we can neither deny nor confirm it. We have better news regarding the three magic abilities of vitamin C: there is in-vivo (tested on real people) data showing that SAP does have photo-protective (aka antioxidant) properties, though less than pure AA. SAP might also aid collagen boosting; in-vitro (made in the lab) data shows that it works, but is less effective than another vitamin C derivative, called MAP (that seems to be as effective as pure AA). As for skin-brightening, there is a trade publication with in-vivo data showing that SAP can fade brown spots. Another thing SAP might be able to do is to help with acne. A 2005 study showed in vitro (in test tubes) that 1% SAP has a strong antimicrobial activity on evil acne causing P. acnes and it also showed in vivo (on real people) that 5% SAP can strongly improve the inflammatory and non-inflammatory lesions of acne vulgaris. In fact, the results were comparable or even slightly better than with 5% benzoyl peroxide. And there is even more regarding SAP and acne. A nice double-blind study from 2009 showed that 5% SAP reduced the inflammatory lesions by 20.14% and 48.82% within 4 and 8 weeks respectively and when combined with 0.2% retinol the results were even better. With this combination treatment, the improvement was 29.28% after 4 weeks and 63.10% after 8 weeks of what‑it‑does antioxidant | anti-acne solvent | moisturizer/humectant skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. cell-communicating ingredient | skin brightening | anti-acne | moisturizer/humectant moisturizer/humectant antioxidant | preservative cell-communicating ingredient | moisturizer/humectant moisturizer/humectant | emollient emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing antioxidant | soothing | emollient | abrasive/scrub

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