JUNO & Co. 2% Hyaluronic Acid + Peptides Serum

JUNO & Co. 2% Hyaluronic Acid + Peptides Serum JUNO & Co. 2% Hyaluronic Acid + Peptides Serum ingredients explained: Water, Butylene Glycol, Glycereth-26, Sodium Hyaluronate Crosspolymer, Sodium Hyaluronate, Sodium Acetylated Hyaluronate, Hydrolyzed Sodium Hyaluronate, Panthenol, Hydrolyzed Beta-Glucan, Pentylene Glycol, Caprylhydroxamic Acid, Oligopeptide-1 Show all ingredients by function Water solvent Butylene Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, solvent 0, 1 Glycereth-26 moisturizer/​humectant, emollient, viscosity controlling 0, 0 Sodium Hyaluronate Crosspolymer skin-identical ingredient, antioxidant, moisturizer/​humectant goodie Sodium Hyaluronate skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant Sodium Acetylated Hyaluronate moisturizer/​humectant Hydrolyzed Sodium Hyaluronate Panthenol soothing, moisturizer/​humectant Hydrolyzed Beta-Glucan Pentylene Glycol solvent, moisturizer/​humectant Caprylhydroxamic Acid chelating Oligopeptide-1 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. Butylene glycol, or let’s just call it BG, is a multi-tasking colorless, syrupy liquid. It’s a great pick for creating a nice feeling product. BG’s main job is usually to be a solvent for the other ingredients. Other tasks include helping the product to absorb faster and deeper into the skin (penetration enhancer), making the product spread nicely over the skin (slip agent), and attracting water (humectant) into the skin. It’s an ingredient whose safety hasn’t been questioned so far by anyone (at least not that we know about). BG is approved by Ecocert and is also used enthusiastically in natural products. BTW, it’s also a food additive. It's a nice glycerin-based humectant and emollient that gives skin a smooth and luxurious feel. It's a special "cross-linked" from of IT-moisturizer, hyaluronic acid (HA). Cross-linked means that "normal" HA pieces (1-2 million Da molecular weight) are chemically bound togeather to create a big, "infinite" mesh. The special HA mesh has a remarkable water-binding capacity, 5 times more than the already crazy water-binding capacity of "normal" HA. This water filled crosslinked HA gel forms a smooth film on the skin and continuously delivers the bound water, so it gives long-term moisturizing benefits. Btw, crosslinking HA was developed for dermal fillers (as crosslinking helps their longevity), and this guy is the topical version of FDA approved dermal filler called Hylan B gel. Smearing crosslinked version all over ourselves is a newish thing, and incoming evidence so far suggests that it's a great idea, even better than normal HA. A very recent, 2016 research article compared the topical moisturizing effect of crosslinked HA (not Hylan B gel specifically, but something called Resilient HA or RHA), HMW-HA and LMW-HA and found that "TEWL (that is trans-epidermal water loss, the water that evaporates from the skin) was reduced by 27.8% with RHA, and by 15.6% with HMW HA, but increased by 55.5% with LMW HA." (You can read much more about HMW and LMW HA here in the geeky details section.) All in all, we think Sodium Hyaluronate Crosspolymer is an awesome version of HA, probably superior to traditional versions, so be happy to spot it on the ingredient list. It’s the - sodium form - cousin of the famous NMF, hyaluronic acid (HA). If HA does not tell you anything we have a what‑it‑does moisturizer/humectant | solvent irritancy, com. moisturizer/humectant | emollient | viscosity controlling skin-identical ingredient | antioxidant | moisturizer/humectant skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant moisturizer/humectant soothing | moisturizer/humectant solvent | moisturizer/humectant

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