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KisoCare Glutathione Serum
KisoCare Glutathione Serum KisoCare Glutathione Serum ingredients explained: Water, BG, Panthenol, Pentylene Glycol, Glutathione, Niacinamide, PEG-60 Hydrogenated Castor Oil, Hydrogenated Lecithin, Phytosterols, Ceramide NG, Ceramide AP, Ceramide AG, Ceramide
KisoCare Glutathione Serum KisoCare Glutathione Serum ingredients explained: Water, BG, Panthenol, Pentylene Glycol, Glutathione, Niacinamide, PEG-60 Hydrogenated Castor Oil, Hydrogenated Lecithin, Phytosterols, Ceramide NG, Ceramide AP, Ceramide AG, Ceramide NP, Ceramide EOP, 3-Glyceryl Ascorbic Acid, Sodium Retinoyl Hyaluronate, Sodium Acetylated Hyaluronate, Sodium Hyaluronate, Hyaluronic Acid Crosspolymer-2-Sodium, Hydrolyzed Sodium Hyaluronate, Snail Secretion Filtrate, Averrhoa Carambola Leaf Extract, Rosa Damascena Flower Oil, Jojoba Seed Oil, Styrene/Acrylates Copolymer, Sodium Dehydroacetate, Glycerin, Ethylhexylglycerin, Ethyl Hexanediol, Phenoxyethanol, Calcium Sodium Borosilicate, Silver Oxide Show all ingredients by function Water solvent BG moisturizer/humectant, solvent 0, 1 Panthenol soothing, moisturizer/humectant 0, 0 goodie Pentylene Glycol solvent, moisturizer/humectant Glutathione Niacinamide cell-communicating ingredient, skin brightening, anti-acne, moisturizer/humectant superstar PEG-60 Hydrogenated Castor Oil emulsifying, surfactant/cleansing Hydrogenated Lecithin emollient, emulsifying Phytosterols Ceramide NG skin-identical ingredient Ceramide AP Ceramide AG moisturizer/humectant Ceramide NP Ceramide EOP 3-Glyceryl Ascorbic Acid antioxidant, moisturizer/humectant Sodium Retinoyl Hyaluronate Sodium Acetylated Hyaluronate Sodium Hyaluronate skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/humectant Hyaluronic Acid Crosspolymer-2-Sodium Hydrolyzed Sodium Hyaluronate Snail Secretion Filtrate Averrhoa Carambola Leaf Extract Rosa Damascena Flower Oil antioxidant, perfuming, antimicrobial/antibacterial icky Jojoba Seed Oil emollient 0, 0-2 Styrene/Acrylates Copolymer Sodium Dehydroacetate preservative Glycerin Ethylhexylglycerin Ethyl Hexanediol Phenoxyethanol Calcium Sodium Borosilicate Silver Oxide antimicrobial/antibacterial 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. An easy-to-formulate, commonly used, nice to have ingredient that’s also called pro-vitamin B5. As you might guess from the “pro” part, it’s a precursor to vitamin B5 (whose fancy name is pantothenic acid). Its main job in skincare products is to moisturise the skin. It’s a humectant meaning that it can help the skin to attract water and then hold onto it. There is also research showing that panthenol can help our skin to produce more lovely lipids that are important for a strong and healthy skin barrier. Another great thing about panthenol is that it has anti-inflammatory and skin protecting abilities. A study shows that it can reduce the irritation caused by less-nice other ingredients (e.g. fragrance, preservatives or chemical sunscreens) in the product. Research also shows that it might be useful for wound healing as it promotes fibroblast (nice type of cells in our skin that produce skin-firming collagen) proliferation. If that wasn’t enough panthenol is also useful in nail and hair care products. A study shows that a nail treatment liquide with 2% panthenol could effectively get into the nail and significantly increase the hydration of it. As for the hair the hydration effect is also true there. Panthenol might make your hair softer, more elastic and helps to comb your hair more easily. A multi-functional, silky feeling helper ingredient that can do quite many things. It's used as an emulsion stabilizer, solvent and a broad spectrum antimicrobial. According to manufacturer info, it's also a moisturizer and helps to make the product feel great on the skin. It works synergistically with preservatives and helps to improve water-resistance of sunscreens. We don't what‑it‑does moisturizer/humectant | solvent irritancy, com. soothing | moisturizer/humectant solvent | moisturizer/humectant cell-communicating ingredient | skin brightening | anti-acne | moisturizer/humectant emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing emollient | emulsifying moisturizer/humectant antioxidant | moisturizer/humectant skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant antioxidant | perfuming | antimicrobial/antibacterial antimicrobial/antibacterial