letique cosmetics Pro Lifting Serum

letique cosmetics Pro Lifting Serum letique cosmetics Pro Lifting Serum ingredients explained: Aqua, Ceramide NP, Alpha Glucosyl Hesperidin, Glucosyl Hesperidin, Chamomilla Recutita (Flower) Extract, Xanthan Gum, Polysorbate 20, Squalane, Grape Seed (Vitis Vinifera) Oil (Refined), D-Panthenol, Allantoin, Chlorphenesin, Phenoxyethanol, Fragrance, Sodium Polyacrylate Show all ingredients by function Aqua solvent Ceramide NP skin-identical ingredient goodie Glucosyl Hesperidin moisturizer/​humectant Chamomilla Recutita (Flower) Extract Xanthan Gum viscosity controlling Polysorbate 20 emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing 0, 0 Squalane skin-identical ingredient, emollient 0, 1 Grape Seed (Vitis Vinifera) Oil (Refined) antioxidant, emollient D-Panthenol soothing, moisturizer/​humectant Allantoin soothing Chlorphenesin preservative, antimicrobial/​antibacterial Phenoxyethanol preservative Fragrance perfuming icky Sodium Polyacrylate 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. One of the many types of ceramides that can be found naturally in the upper layer of the skin. Ceramides make up about 50% of the goopy stuff that's between our skin cells and play a super important role in having a healthy skin barrier and keeping the skin hydrated. It works even better when combined with its pal, Ceramide 1. We wrote way more about ceramides at ceramide 1, so click here to know more. We don't have description for this ingredient yet. It's one of the most commonly used thickeners and emulsion stabilizers. If the product is too runny, a little xanthan gum will make it more gel-like. Used alone, it can make the formula sticky and it is a good team player so it is usually combined with other thickeners and so-called rheology modifiers (helper ingredients that adjust the flow and thus the feel of the formula). The typical use level of Xantha Gum is below 1%, it is usually in the 0.1-0.5% range. Btw, Xanthan gum is all natural, a chain of sugar molecules (polysaccharide) produced from individual sugar molecules (glucose and sucrose) via fermentation. It’s approved by Ecocert and also used in the food industry (E415). It's a common little helper ingredient that helps water and oil to mix together. Also, it can help to increase the solubility of some other ingredients in the formula. It seems to us that squalane is in fashion and there is a reason for it. Chemically speaking, it is a saturated (no double bonds) hydrocarbon (a molecule consisting only of carbon and hydrogen), meaning that it's a nice and stable oily liquid with a long shelf life. It occurs naturally in certain fish and plant oils (e.g. olive), and in the sebum (the oily stuff our skin produces) of the human skin. As f.c. puts it in his awesome blog post, squalane's main things are "emolliency, surface occlusion, and TEWL prevention all with extreme cosmetic elegance". In other words, it's a superb moisturizer that makes your skin nice and smooth, without being heavy or greasy. Another advantage of squalane is that it is pretty much compatible with all skin types and skin conditions. It is excellent for acne-prone skin and safe to use even if you have fungi-related skin issues, like seborrhea or fungal acne. The unsaturated (with double bonds) and hence less stable version of Squalane is Squalene, you can read about it here what‑it‑does moisturizer/humectant emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing irritancy, com. skin-identical ingredient | emollient antioxidant | emollient soothing | moisturizer/humectant preservative | antimicrobial/antibacterial

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