Image Skincare Vital C Hydrating Eye Recovery Gel

Image Skincare Vital C Hydrating Eye Recovery Gel Image Skincare Vital C Hydrating Eye Recovery Gel ingredients explained: Aqua, Sodium Hyaluronate, Palmitoyl Pentapeptide-4, Magnesium Ascorbyl Phosphate, Centella Asiatica Extract, Dipalmitoyl Hydroxyproline, Glycosaminoglycans, Darutoside, Palmitoyl Tripeptide-1, Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-7, Malus Domestica Fruit Cell Culture Extract, Acetyl Octapeptide-3, Hesperidin Methyl Chalcone, Dipeptide Diaminobutyroyl Benzylamide Diacetate, Glycerin, Echinacea Purpurea Extract, Imperata Cylindrica Root Extract, Polysorbate 20, Palmitoyl Tripeptide-5, Glycine, Potassium Sorbate, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Cyclopentasiloxane, PEG-8/Smdi Copolymer, PEG-8 Dimethicone, Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer, Sodium Hydroxide, Caprylyl Glycol, Linoleic Acid, Glycine Soja (Soybean) Sterols, Phospholipids, Ethylhexylglycerin, Hexylene Glycol, Steareth-20, Disodium EDTA, Carbomer, Citrus Nobilis (Mandarin Orange) Peel Oil, Butylene Glycol, PEG-8, Xanthan Gum, N-Hydroxysuccinimide, Retinyl Palmit Show all ingredients by function Aqua solvent Sodium Hyaluronate skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 goodie Palmitoyl Pentapeptide-4 cell-communicating ingredient Magnesium Ascorbyl Phosphate skin brightening, antioxidant Centella Asiatica Extract soothing, antioxidant, moisturizer/​humectant Dipalmitoyl Hydroxyproline Glycosaminoglycans emollient Darutoside Palmitoyl Tripeptide-1 Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-7 Malus Domestica Fruit Cell Culture Extract Acetyl Octapeptide-3 cell-communicating ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant Hesperidin Methyl Chalcone antioxidant Dipeptide Diaminobutyroyl Benzylamide Diacetate Glycerin superstar Echinacea Purpurea Extract moisturizer/​humectant Imperata Cylindrica Root Extract Polysorbate 20 emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing Palmitoyl Tripeptide-5 Glycine skin-identical ingredient Potassium Sorbate preservative Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride Cyclopentasiloxane emollient, solvent PEG-8/Smdi Copolymer PEG-8 Dimethicone Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer viscosity controlling Sodium Hydroxide buffering Caprylyl Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, emollient Linoleic Acid skin-identical ingredient, emollient, surfactant/​cleansing Glycine Soja (Soybean) Sterols Phospholipids skin-identical ingredient, emollient Ethylhexylglycerin Hexylene Glycol solvent, emulsifying, perfuming, surfactant/​cleansing 0-1, 0-2 Steareth-20 1, 2 Disodium EDTA chelating Carbomer 0, 1 Citrus Nobilis (Mandarin Orange) Peel Oil perfuming icky Butylene Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, solvent PEG-8 Xanthan Gum N-Hydroxysuccinimide Retinyl Palmitate 1-3, 1-3 Acetyl Hexapeptide-8 Glucose Dipeptide-2 Chondrus Crispus Extract moisturizer/​humectant, viscosity controlling Chrysin Trisodium EDTA Phenoxyethanol Olea Europaea (Olive) Leaf Extract 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. It’s the - sodium form - cousin of the famous NMF, hyaluronic acid (HA). If HA does not tell you anything we have a super detailed, geeky explanation about it here. The TL; DR version of HA is that it's a huge polymer (big molecule from repeated subunits) found in the skin that acts as a sponge helping the skin to hold onto water, being plump and elastic. HA is famous for its crazy water holding capacity as it can bind up to 1000 times its own weight in water. As far as skincare goes, sodium hyaluronate and hyaluronic acid are pretty much the same and the two names are used interchangeably. As cosmetic chemist kindofstephen writes on reddit "sodium hyaluronate disassociates into hyaluronic acid molecule and a sodium atom in solution". In spite of this, if you search for "hyaluronic acid vs sodium hyaluronate" you will find on multiple places that sodium hyaluronate is smaller and can penetrate the skin better. Chemically, this is definitely not true, as the two forms are almost the same, both are polymers and the subunits can be repeated in both forms as much as you like. (We also checked Prospector for sodium hyaluronate versions actually used in cosmetic products and found that the most common molecular weight was 1.5-1.8 million Da that absolutely counts as high molecular weight). What seems to be a true difference, though, is that the salt form is more stable, easier to formulate and cheaper so it pops up more often on the ingredient lists. If you wanna become a real HA-and-the-skin expert you can read way more about the topic at hyaluronic acid (including penetration-questions, differences between high and low molecular weight versions and a bunch of references to scientific literature). A pretty famous and better-researched peptide consisting of five amino acids (the building blocks of all proteins). It was created in a joint effort by the French ingredient supplier, Sederma and the cosmetics industry big shot, Procter&Gamble. The amino acid sequence of the peptide is lysine–threonine–threonine–lysine–serine (KTTKS). Sometimes, it's also called collagen pentapeptide, as it's a subfragment of skin-structure-giving type I collagen. The KTTKS amino sequence is then attached for better oil solubility and skin penetration to palmitic acid and BOOM; we get Palmitoyl Pentapeptide-4. Though most resea what‑it‑does skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. skin brightening | antioxidant soothing | antioxidant | moisturizer/humectant cell-communicating ingredient | moisturizer/humectant moisturizer/humectant emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing emollient | solvent moisturizer/humectant | emollient skin-identical ingredient | emollient | surfactant/cleansing skin-identical ingredient | emollient solvent | emulsifying | perfuming | surfactant/cleansing moisturizer/humectant | solvent moisturizer/humectant | viscosity controlling

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