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Lanbena Hyaluronic Acid Serum
Lanbena Hyaluronic Acid Serum Lanbena Hyaluronic Acid Serum ingredients explained: Water, Glycerol, Polymethyl Methacrylate, Carbomer, Allantoin, Snail Secretion Filtrate, Glycine, Hydroxyethyl Cellulose, Hyaluronic Acid, Hydrogenated Castor Oil, Triethanol Am
Lanbena Hyaluronic Acid Serum Lanbena Hyaluronic Acid Serum ingredients explained: Water, Glycerol, Polymethyl Methacrylate, Carbomer, Allantoin, Snail Secretion Filtrate, Glycine, Hydroxyethyl Cellulose, Hyaluronic Acid, Hydrogenated Castor Oil, Triethanol Amine, 2-Phenoxyethanol Show all ingredients by function Water solvent Glycerol skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/humectant 0, 0 superstar Polymethyl Methacrylate Carbomer viscosity controlling 0, 1 Allantoin soothing goodie Snail Secretion Filtrate antioxidant, moisturizer/humectant Glycine skin-identical ingredient Hydroxyethyl Cellulose Hyaluronic Acid Hydrogenated Castor Oil emollient, viscosity controlling, emulsifying, surfactant/cleansing Triethanol Amine buffering 0, 2 2-Phenoxyethanol preservative 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 so-called polymer microsphere, i.e. little spherical shaped particles from repeated subunits. Similar to other microsphere powders, it can scatter the light to give products a soft focus or blurring effect. It also works as a texture enhancer giving formulas an exceptional smoothness and a velvet touch. A big molecule created from repeated subunits (a polymer of acrylic acid) that magically converts a liquid into a nice gel formula. It usually has to be neutralized with a base (such as sodium hydroxide) for the thickening to occur and it creates viscous, clear gels that also feel nice and non-tacky on the skin. No wonder, it is a very popular and common ingredient. Typically used at 1% or less in most formulations. Super common soothing ingredient. It can be found naturally in the roots & leaves of the comfrey plant, but more often than not what's in the cosmetic products is produced synthetically. It's not only soothing but it' also skin-softening and protecting and can promote wound healing. If you are into the K-Beauty trend, you must have bumped into snail slime like a thousand times. Korean brands love the ingredient and tout it for its miraculous repair and hydration properties. It's claimed to be able to repair everything from dry patches, acne breakouts to signs of aging and we are happy to say that it might be just true. So snail slime is the yucky stuff that snails (in cosmetics the secretion of Cornu Aspersum, the garden snail is used) produce when they are in stress (it's not the same as the one they secret to be able to move nicely and smoothly). As the cosmetic chemists at the Beauty Brains blog write, "chemically speaking, snail slime is a complex mixture of proteoglycans, glycosaminoglycans, glycoprotein enzymes, hyaluronic acid, copper peptides, antimicrobial peptides and trace elements including copper, what‑it‑does skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. antioxidant | moisturizer/humectant emollient | viscosity controlling | emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing