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Leaders 7 Wonders Tundra Cranberry Anti-aging Mask
Leaders 7 Wonders Tundra Cranberry Anti-aging Mask Leaders 7 Wonders Tundra Cranberry Anti-aging Mask ingredients explained: Water, Butylene Glycol, Glycerin, Betaine, 1,2-Hexanediol, Chamomilla Recutita (Matricaria) Flower Extract, Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Fr
Leaders 7 Wonders Tundra Cranberry Anti-aging Mask Leaders 7 Wonders Tundra Cranberry Anti-aging Mask ingredients explained: Water, Butylene Glycol, Glycerin, Betaine, 1,2-Hexanediol, Chamomilla Recutita (Matricaria) Flower Extract, Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Fruit Extract, Hydroxyethyl Acrylate/Sodium Acryloyldimethyl Taurate Copolymer, Portulaca Oleracea Extract, Acer Saccharum (Sugar Maple) Extract, Ethylhexylglycerin, Caprylyl Glycol, Arnica Montana Flower Extract, Xanthan Gum, Hamamelis Virginiana (Witch Hazel) Water, Artemisia Capillaris Flower Extract, Vaccinium Macrocarpon (Cranberry) Seed Oil, Houttuynia Cordata Extract, Ecklonia Cava Extract, Artemisia Absinthium Extract, Saururus Chinensis Extract, Ledum Palustre Extract, Achillea Millefolium Extract, Gentiana Lutea Root Extract, Peucedanum Ostruthium Leaf Extract, Hydrogenated Lecithin, Panthenol, Niacinamide, Tocopheryl Acetate, Sodium Benzoate, Acetyl Hexapeptide-8, Potassium Sorbate, Citric Acid, Retinyl Palmitate, Biotin, Ascorbic Acid, Folic Acid, Dipotassium Glycyrrhiza Show all ingredients by function Water solvent Butylene Glycol moisturizer/humectant, solvent 0, 1 Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/humectant 0, 0 superstar Betaine moisturizer/humectant goodie 1,2-Hexanediol Chamomilla Recutita (Matricaria) Flower Extract soothing, antioxidant Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Fruit Extract emollient Hydroxyethyl Acrylate/Sodium Acryloyldimethyl Taurate Copolymer viscosity controlling Portulaca Oleracea Extract Acer Saccharum (Sugar Maple) Extract Ethylhexylglycerin preservative Caprylyl Glycol moisturizer/humectant, emollient Arnica Montana Flower Extract perfuming icky Xanthan Gum Hamamelis Virginiana (Witch Hazel) Water soothing Artemisia Capillaris Flower Extract Vaccinium Macrocarpon (Cranberry) Seed Oil Houttuynia Cordata Extract antioxidant, soothing Ecklonia Cava Extract Artemisia Absinthium Extract Saururus Chinensis Extract Ledum Palustre Extract Achillea Millefolium Extract soothing, surfactant/cleansing Gentiana Lutea Root Extract Peucedanum Ostruthium Leaf Extract Hydrogenated Lecithin emollient, emulsifying Panthenol soothing, moisturizer/humectant Niacinamide cell-communicating ingredient, skin brightening, anti-acne, moisturizer/humectant Tocopheryl Acetate antioxidant Sodium Benzoate Acetyl Hexapeptide-8 cell-communicating ingredient, moisturizer/humectant Potassium Sorbate Citric Acid buffering Retinyl Palmitate cell-communicating ingredient 1-3, 1-3 Biotin Ascorbic Acid antioxidant, skin brightening, buffering Folic Acid Dipotassium Glycyrrhizate Ceramide 3 skin-identical ingredient Glyceryl Linolenate Glyceryl Linoleate Glyceryl Arachidonate 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. 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 sugar beet-derived amino acid derivative with nice skin protection and moisturization properties. Betaine's special thing is being an osmolyte, a molecule that helps to control cell-water balance. It is also a natural osmoprotectant, meaning that it attracts water away from the protein surface and thus protects them from denaturation and increases their thermodynamic stability. It also gives sensorial benefits to the formula and when used in cleansers, it helps to make them milder and gentler. A really multi-functional helper ingredient that can do several things in a skincare product: it can bring a soft and pleasant feel to the formula, it can act as a humectant and emollient, it can be a solvent for some other ingredients (for example it can help to stabilize perfumes in watery products) and it can also help to disperse pigments more evenly in makeup products. And that is still not all: it can also boost the antimicrobial activity of preservatives. Chamomile probably needs no introduction as it's one of the most widely used medicinal herbs. You probably drink it regularly as a nice, calming cup of tea and it's also a regular on skincare ingredient lists. Cosmetic companies use it mainl what‑it‑does moisturizer/humectant | solvent irritancy, com. skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant moisturizer/humectant soothing | antioxidant moisturizer/humectant | emollient antioxidant | soothing soothing | surfactant/cleansing emollient | emulsifying soothing | moisturizer/humectant cell-communicating ingredient | skin brightening | anti-acne | moisturizer/humectant cell-communicating ingredient | moisturizer/humectant antioxidant | skin brightening | buffering