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Image Skincare Image MD Restoring Retinol Booster
Image Skincare Image MD Restoring Retinol Booster Image Skincare Image MD Restoring Retinol Booster ingredients explained: Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Squalane, Moringa Oleifera Seed Oil, Vitis Vinifera (Grape) Seed Oil, Hippophae Rhamnoides Oil, Tetrahexyld
Image Skincare Image MD Restoring Retinol Booster Image Skincare Image MD Restoring Retinol Booster ingredients explained: Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Squalane, Moringa Oleifera Seed Oil, Vitis Vinifera (Grape) Seed Oil, Hippophae Rhamnoides Oil, Tetrahexyldecyl Ascorbate, Citrus Aurantium Dulcis Oil, Retinol, Polysorbate 20, Retinyl Palmitate, Tocopherol, Argania Spinosa Kernel Oil, Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Oil, Persea Gratissima (Avocado) Oil Show all ingredients by function Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride emollient Squalane skin-identical ingredient, emollient 0, 1 goodie Moringa Oleifera Seed Oil Vitis Vinifera (Grape) Seed Oil antioxidant, emollient Hippophae Rhamnoides Oil Tetrahexyldecyl Ascorbate antioxidant, skin brightening Citrus Aurantium Dulcis Oil perfuming icky Retinol cell-communicating ingredient superstar Polysorbate 20 emulsifying, surfactant/cleansing 0, 0 Retinyl Palmitate 1-3, 1-3 Tocopherol antioxidant 0-3, 0-3 Argania Spinosa Kernel Oil Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Oil Persea Gratissima (Avocado) Oil 0, 0-3 A super common emollient that makes your skin feel nice and smooth. It comes from coconut oil and glycerin, it’s light-textured, clear, odorless and non-greasy. It’s a nice ingredient that just feels good on the skin, is super well tolerated by every skin type and easy to formulate with. No wonder it’s popular. It seems to us that squalane is in fashion and there is a reason for it. Chemically speaking, it is a saturated (no double bonds) hydrocarbon (a molecule consisting only of carbon and hydrogen), meaning that it's a nice and stable oily liquid with a long shelf life. It occurs naturally in certain fish and plant oils (e.g. olive), and in the sebum (the oily stuff our skin produces) of the human skin. As f.c. puts it in his awesome blog post, squalane's main things are "emolliency, surface occlusion, and TEWL prevention all with extreme cosmetic elegance". In other words, it's a superb moisturizer that makes your skin nice and smooth, without being heavy or greasy. Expand to read more Another advantage of squalane is that it is pretty much compatible with all skin types and skin conditions. It is excellent for acne-prone skin and safe to use even if you have fungi-related skin issues, like seborrhea or fungal acne. The unsaturated (with double bonds) and hence less stable version of Squalane is Squalene, you can read about it here >> The oil coming from the seeds of the Moringa tree, a big white-flowered tree native to India. It's a yellow oil similar to olive oil. It's rich in nourishing and moisturizing fatty acid, oleic (75%) and also contains behenic acid (up to 8%) that makes moringa very stable and gives the oil a long shelf life. It blends easily with essential oils and can also help to stabilize scents so it's a popular oil in the perfume industry. A goodie plant oil coming from the polyphenol-rich seeds of the grape. It's a light emollient oil that makes your skin feel smooth and nice and also contains a bunch of good-for-the-skin stuff. It's a great source of antioxidant polyphenols, barrier repair fatty acid linoleic acid (about 55-77%, while oleic acid is about 12-27%) and antioxidant, skin-protectant vitamin E. The oil coming from the pulp of the sea buckthorn berry. It has a pretty unique fatty acid composition: 65% is a combination of the rare Omega-7, aka palmitoleic acid and the more common palmitic acid. Fatty acids give the oil nice moisturizing and skin-protecting abilities. But that's not all the goodness of sea buckthorn oil. It contains antioxidant superstar, Vitamin E (in multiple forms), antioxidant (and orange color giving) pigments beta-carotene and lycopene, as well as skin-soothing and replenishing beta-sitosterol. Btw, used undiluted, it will make your skin orange. All in all, a goodie emollient plant oil. Tetrahexyldecyl Ascorbate is a stable, oil-soluble form of skincare big shot Vitamin C. If you do not know, why Vitamin C is such a big deal in skincare, click here and read all about it. We are massive vitami what‑it‑does skin-identical ingredient | emollient irritancy, com. antioxidant | emollient antioxidant | skin brightening emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing