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Image Skincare Vital C Hydrating Intense Moisturizer

Image Skincare Vital C Hydrating Intense Moisturizer Image Skincare Vital C Hydrating Intense Moisturizer ingredients explained: Water/Aqua/Eau, Glycerin, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Olea Europaea (Olive) Fruit Oil, Cetearyl Alcohol, Butylene Glycol, Butyros

Image Skincare Vital C Hydrating Intense Moisturizer Image Skincare Vital C Hydrating Intense Moisturizer ingredients explained: Water/Aqua/Eau, Glycerin, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Olea Europaea (Olive) Fruit Oil, Cetearyl Alcohol, Butylene Glycol, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter, PPG-3 Benzyl Ether Myristate, Di-C12-15 Alkyl Fumarate, Dimethicone, Glyceryl Stearate, PEG-100 Stearate, Citrus Aurantium Dulcis (Orange) Peel Oil, Erythritol, Polysorbate 20, Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer, Tetrahexyldecyl Ascorbate, Carbomer, Eugenia Caryophyllus (Clove) Leaf Oil, Ethylhexylglycerin, Tocopheryl Acetate, Retinyl Palmitate, Sodium Ascorbyl Phosphate, Mannitol, Sodium Hyaluronate, Sodium Lactate, Ceramide NS, Ascorbic Acid, Homarine Hcl, Tocopherol, Biotin, Pentaerythrityl Tetra-Di-T-Butyl Hydroxyhydrocinnamate, Saccharomyces Cerevisiae (Yeast) Extract, Vitis Vinifera (Grape) Seed Extract, Palmitoyl Tripeptide-1, Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-7, Phenoxyethanol, Potassium Sorbate, Sodium Benzoate, Sodium Hydroxide, Limonene, Eugeno Show all ingredients by function Water/Aqua/Eau solvent Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride emollient Olea Europaea (Olive) Fruit Oil antioxidant, emollient 0, 0-2 goodie Cetearyl Alcohol emollient, viscosity controlling, emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing 1, 2 Butylene Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, solvent 0, 1 Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter PPG-3 Benzyl Ether Myristate emollient, solvent Di-C12-15 Alkyl Fumarate Dimethicone Glyceryl Stearate emollient, emulsifying PEG-100 Stearate surfactant/​cleansing, emulsifying Citrus Aurantium Dulcis (Orange) Peel Oil perfuming icky Erythritol moisturizer/​humectant Polysorbate 20 emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer viscosity controlling Tetrahexyldecyl Ascorbate antioxidant, skin brightening Carbomer Eugenia Caryophyllus (Clove) Leaf Oil Ethylhexylglycerin preservative Tocopheryl Acetate antioxidant Retinyl Palmitate cell-communicating ingredient 1-3, 1-3 Sodium Ascorbyl Phosphate antioxidant, anti-acne Mannitol Sodium Hyaluronate Sodium Lactate buffering, moisturizer/​humectant Ceramide NS skin-identical ingredient Ascorbic Acid antioxidant, skin brightening, buffering Homarine Hcl Tocopherol 0-3, 0-3 Biotin Pentaerythrityl Tetra-Di-T-Butyl Hydroxyhydrocinnamate antioxidant, preservative Saccharomyces Cerevisiae (Yeast) Extract Vitis Vinifera (Grape) Seed Extract antioxidant, antimicrobial/​antibacterial Palmitoyl Tripeptide-1 Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-7 Phenoxyethanol Potassium Sorbate Sodium Benzoate Sodium Hydroxide buffering Limonene perfuming, solvent Eugenol Linalool Isoeugenol 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 natural moisturizer that’s also in our skin A super common, safe, effective and cheap molecule used for more than 50 years Not only a simple moisturizer but knows much more: keeps the skin lipids between our skin cells in a healthy (liquid crystal) state, protects against irritation, helps to restore barrier Effective from as low as 3% with even more benefits for dry skin at higher concentrations up to 20-40% High-glycerin moisturizers are awesome for treating severely dry skin 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. You probably know olive oil from the kitchen as a great and healthy option for salad dressing but it's also a great and healthy option to moisturize and nourish the skin, especially if it's on the dry side. Similar to other emollient plant oils, it's loaded with nourishing fatty acids: oleic is the main component (55-83%), and also contains linoleic (3.5-20%) and palmitic acids (7-20%). It also contains antioxidant polyphenols, tocopherols (types of vitamin E) and carotenoids and it's one of the best plant sources of skin-identical emollient, Squalene. Overall, a great option for dry skin but less so for acne-prone or damaged skin. An extremely common multitasker ingredient that gives your skin a nice soft feel (emollient) and gives body to creams and lotions. It also helps to stabilize oil-water mixes (emulsions), though it does not function as an emulsifier in itself. Its typical use level in most cream type formulas is 2-3%. It’s a so-called fatty alcohol, a mix of cetyl and stearyl alcohol, other two emollient fatty alcohols. Though chemically speaking, it is alcohol (as in, it has an -OH group in its molecule), its properties are totally different from the properties of low molecular weight or drying alcohols such as denat. alcohol. Fatty alcohols have a long oil-soluble (and thus emollient) tail part that makes them absolutely non-drying and non-irritating and are totally ok for the skin. Butylene glycol, or let’s just call it BG, is a multi-tasking colorless, syrupy liquid. It’s a great pick for creating a nic what‑it‑does skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. antioxidant | emollient emollient | viscosity controlling | emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing moisturizer/humectant | solvent emollient | solvent emollient | emulsifying surfactant/cleansing | emulsifying moisturizer/humectant emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing antioxidant | skin brightening antioxidant | anti-acne buffering | moisturizer/humectant antioxidant | skin brightening | buffering antioxidant | preservative antioxidant | antimicrobial/antibacterial perfuming | solvent

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