Lacuna Multi-peptide Milky Toner

Lacuna Multi-peptide Milky Toner Lacuna Multi-peptide Milky Toner ingredients explained: Aqua (Water), Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer, Butylene Glycol, Propanediol, Glycerin, Phenoxyethanol, Benzyl Alcohol, Xanthan Gum, Titanium Dioxide, Palmitoyl Tripeptide-1, Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-7, Ceramide NP, Magnesium Sulfate, Hyaluronic Acid, Sodium Hydroxide, Dehydroacetic Acid, Carbomer, Polysorbate 20 Show all ingredients by function Aqua (Water) solvent Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer viscosity controlling Butylene Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, solvent 0, 1 Propanediol solvent, moisturizer/​humectant Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Phenoxyethanol preservative Benzyl Alcohol preservative, perfuming, solvent, viscosity controlling Xanthan Gum Titanium Dioxide sunscreen, colorant goodie Palmitoyl Tripeptide-1 cell-communicating ingredient Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-7 Ceramide NP skin-identical ingredient Magnesium Sulfate Hyaluronic Acid Sodium Hydroxide buffering Dehydroacetic Acid Carbomer Polysorbate 20 emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing 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. Though its long name does not reveal it, this polymer molecule (big molecule from repeated subunits or monomers) is a relative to the super common, water-loving thickener, Carbomer. Both of them are big molecules that contain acrylic acid units, but Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer also contains some other monomers that are hydrophobic, i.e. water-hating. This means that our molecule is part water- and part oil-loving, so it not only works as a thickener but also as an emulsion stabilizer. It is very common in gel-type formulas that also contain an oil-phase as well as in cleansers as it also works with most cleansing agents (unlike a lot of other thickeners). 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. 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. 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 It’s pretty much the current IT-preservative. It’s safe and gentle, but even more importantly, it’s not a feared-by-everyone-mostly-without-scientific-reason paraben. It’s not something ne what‑it‑does moisturizer/humectant | solvent irritancy, com. solvent | moisturizer/humectant skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant preservative | perfuming | solvent | viscosity controlling sunscreen | colorant emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing

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