Kate Somerville Kx Active Concentrates Bio-Mimicking Peptides Serum

Kate Somerville Kx Active Concentrates Bio-Mimicking Peptides Serum Kate Somerville Kx Active Concentrates Bio-Mimicking Peptides Serum ingredients explained: Aqua/Water/Eau, PPG-24-Glycereth-24, Glycerin, Propanediol, Spondias Mombin Pulp Extract, Mangifera Indica (Mango) Pulp Extract, Musa Sapientum (Banana) Pulp Extract, Acetyl Glutamine, Sodium Hyaluronate, Acer Rubrum Extract, SH-Polypeptide-1, SH-Oligopeptide-2, SH-Oligopeptide-1, SH-Polypeptide-9, SH-Polypeptide-11, Panthenol, Cichorium Intybus (Chicory) Leaf Extract, Zinc Pca, Caprylyl Glycol, Glycine Soja (Soybean) Seed Extract, Lecithin, Sclerotium Gum, Pullulan, 1,2-Hexanediol, Bacillus/Folic Acid Ferment Extract, Caprylhydroxamic Acid, Silica, Adenosine, Benzyl Alcohol, Potassium Sorbate, Capryl Glycol, Butylene Glycol, Hexylene Glycol, Disodium EDTA, Citric Acid, Sodium Benzoate, Xanthan Gum Show all ingredients by function Aqua/Water/Eau solvent PPG-24-Glycereth-24 emulsifying, solvent, surfactant/​cleansing Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Propanediol solvent, moisturizer/​humectant Spondias Mombin Pulp Extract Mangifera Indica (Mango) Pulp Extract Musa Sapientum (Banana) Pulp Extract Acetyl Glutamine Sodium Hyaluronate goodie Acer Rubrum Extract SH-Polypeptide-1 cell-communicating ingredient SH-Oligopeptide-2 SH-Oligopeptide-1 SH-Polypeptide-9 SH-Polypeptide-11 Panthenol soothing, moisturizer/​humectant Cichorium Intybus (Chicory) Leaf Extract Zinc Pca anti-acne, moisturizer/​humectant Caprylyl Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, emollient Glycine Soja (Soybean) Seed Extract antioxidant, skin brightening, soothing, emollient Lecithin emollient, emulsifying Sclerotium Gum viscosity controlling Pullulan 1,2-Hexanediol Bacillus/Folic Acid Ferment Extract Caprylhydroxamic Acid chelating Silica Adenosine Benzyl Alcohol preservative, perfuming, solvent, viscosity controlling Potassium Sorbate preservative Capryl Glycol Butylene Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, solvent 0, 1 Hexylene Glycol solvent, emulsifying, perfuming, surfactant/​cleansing 0-1, 0-2 Disodium EDTA Citric Acid buffering Sodium Benzoate Xanthan Gum 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. We don't have description for this ingredient yet. 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 Propanediol is a natural alternative for the often used and often bad-mouthed propylene glycol. It's produced sustainably from corn sugar and it's Ecocert approved. It's quite a multi-tasker: can be used to improve skin moisturization, as a solvent, to boost preservative efficacy or to influence the sensory properties of the end formula. 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 li what‑it‑does emulsifying | solvent | surfactant/cleansing skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. solvent | moisturizer/humectant soothing | moisturizer/humectant anti-acne | moisturizer/humectant moisturizer/humectant | emollient antioxidant | skin brightening | soothing | emollient emollient | emulsifying preservative | perfuming | solvent | viscosity controlling moisturizer/humectant | solvent solvent | emulsifying | perfuming | surfactant/cleansing

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