Image Skincare Iluma Intense Brightening Serum

Image Skincare Iluma Intense Brightening Serum Image Skincare Iluma Intense Brightening Serum ingredients explained: Aqua, Citrus Unshiu Peel Extract, Melia Azadirachta Leaf Extract, Artemisia Vulgaris Extract, Morus Alba Extract, Echinacea Purpurea Extract, Arctostaphylos Uva-Ursi Leaf Extract, Magnesium Ascorbyl Phosphate, Phyllanthus Emblica Fruit Extract, Rumex Occidentalis Extract, Laminaria Digitata Extract, Arbutin, Ascorbic Acid, Chlorella Vulgaris Extract, Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract, Hexylresorcinol, Corallina Officinalis Extract, Glycerin, Sodium Polystyrene Sulfonate, Propylene Glycol, Sodium Ascorbyl Phosphate, Phenoxyethanol, Centella Asiatica Extract, Polysorbate 20, Xanthan Gum, Sodium Benzoate, Dipotassium Glycyrrhizate, Disodium EDTA, Ethylhexylglycerin, PEG-12 Glyceryl Dimyristate, Sodium Metabisulfite, Potassium Sorbate, Anthemis Nobilis Flower Extract, Salix Alba Extract, Pueraria Lobata Root Extract, Glycyrrhiza Glabra Root Extract Show all ingredients by function Aqua solvent Citrus Unshiu Peel Extract skin brightening, antioxidant Melia Azadirachta Leaf Extract Artemisia Vulgaris Extract Morus Alba Extract moisturizer/​humectant Echinacea Purpurea Extract Arctostaphylos Uva-Ursi Leaf Extract antioxidant, skin brightening goodie Magnesium Ascorbyl Phosphate Phyllanthus Emblica Fruit Extract Rumex Occidentalis Extract soothing Laminaria Digitata Extract Arbutin Ascorbic Acid antioxidant, skin brightening, buffering superstar Chlorella Vulgaris Extract Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract antioxidant, soothing Hexylresorcinol skin brightening, antimicrobial/​antibacterial Corallina Officinalis Extract Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 Sodium Polystyrene Sulfonate viscosity controlling, surfactant/​cleansing Propylene Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, solvent Sodium Ascorbyl Phosphate antioxidant, anti-acne Phenoxyethanol preservative Centella Asiatica Extract soothing, antioxidant, moisturizer/​humectant Polysorbate 20 emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing Xanthan Gum viscosity controlling Sodium Benzoate Dipotassium Glycyrrhizate soothing, moisturizer/​humectant Disodium EDTA chelating Ethylhexylglycerin PEG-12 Glyceryl Dimyristate Sodium Metabisulfite antioxidant, preservative Potassium Sorbate Anthemis Nobilis Flower Extract soothing, perfuming Salix Alba Extract Pueraria Lobata Root Extract Glycyrrhiza Glabra Root Extract soothing, skin brightening 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. Out of the more than 900 Citrus species known today, Citrus Unshiu is a seedless, easy to peel tangerine coming from the Japanese town Satsuma. The peel extract used in cosmetics is mainly created from the "press-cake", the by-product of the juice industry and as it turns out, what's waste to one industry is a useful ingredient to another. In cosmetics, the main thing of the Citrus Unshiu Peel Extract is being a skin-brightening or whitening agent. In-vitro (made in test tubes) and animal studies both show promising results for inhibiting tyrosinase, the famous enzyme regulating melanin production. It also contains antioxidant components such as carotenoids, coumarins, limonoids, and flavonoids that might be useful for the skin to protect itself from UV caused damages. The downside of citrus peel extracts (that prevents our goodie rating) is that they usually contain some amount of essential oil components, though the amount is probably way too low to worry about unless you're super-duper sensitive. We don't have description for this ingredient yet. Arctostaphylos Uva-Ursi is a little plant with nice red berries that lives in the North and is also called bearberry or kinnikinnick. According to Wikipedia the uva-ursi part means “grape of the bear”. As for skincare bearberry is interesting because it contains the well-known skin lightening agent arbutin. The leaves contain 5-15% percent of it and might be able to help fading brown spots on the skin. Also, kinnikinnick (such a cool name :)) is an antioxidant and has some antibacterial activity. A form of skincare superstar, Vitamin C. If you do not know, what the big deal about Vitamin C is, click here and read all about it, we will wait here for you. So now you know that pure vitamin C (aka ascorbic acid, AA) is really unstable and hard to formulate so the cosmetics industry is coming up with a bunch of derivatives to solve the problem and Magnesium Ascorbyl Phosphate (or MAP) is one of them. MAP does solve the stability problem: it's stable up to pH 7, so far so good. What is not so good is that, as the great review study about vitamin C derivatives in the Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology writes, MAP is "at very best, poorly absorbed in comparison to AA." Moreover, derivatives not only have to be absorbed into the skin, they also have to be converted what‑it‑does skin brightening | antioxidant moisturizer/humectant antioxidant | skin brightening antioxidant | skin brightening | buffering antioxidant | soothing skin brightening | antimicrobial/antibacterial skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. viscosity controlling | surfactant/cleansing moisturizer/humectant | solvent antioxidant | anti-acne soothing | antioxidant | moisturizer/humectant emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing soothing | moisturizer/humectant antioxidant | preservative soothing | perfuming soothing | skin brightening

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