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Mad About Skin Skin Perfecting Copper Peptide Serum
Mad About Skin Skin Perfecting Copper Peptide Serum Mad About Skin Skin Perfecting Copper Peptide Serum ingredients explained: Aqua, Butylene Glycol, Glycerin, Palmitoyl Tripeptide-1, Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-7, Scutellaria Baicalensis Root Extract, Polyacrylate
Mad About Skin Skin Perfecting Copper Peptide Serum Mad About Skin Skin Perfecting Copper Peptide Serum ingredients explained: Aqua, Butylene Glycol, Glycerin, Palmitoyl Tripeptide-1, Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-7, Scutellaria Baicalensis Root Extract, Polyacrylate Crosspolymer-6, Sodium Hyaluronate, Copper Gluconate, 1,2-Hexanediol, T-Butyl Alcohol, Copper Tripeptide-1, Carbomer, Chlorphenesin, Pentylene Glycol, Polysorbate 20, Phenoxyethanol Show all ingredients by function Aqua solvent Butylene Glycol moisturizer/humectant, solvent 0, 1 Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/humectant 0, 0 superstar Palmitoyl Tripeptide-1 cell-communicating ingredient goodie Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-7 Scutellaria Baicalensis Root Extract soothing, antioxidant, antimicrobial/antibacterial, moisturizer/humectant Polyacrylate Crosspolymer-6 viscosity controlling Sodium Hyaluronate Copper Gluconate soothing 1,2-Hexanediol T-Butyl Alcohol perfuming, solvent Copper Tripeptide-1 cell-communicating ingredient, soothing, antioxidant Carbomer Chlorphenesin preservative, antimicrobial/antibacterial Pentylene Glycol solvent, moisturizer/humectant Polysorbate 20 emulsifying, surfactant/cleansing 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. 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 really famous peptide that is part of Matrixyl 3000, the most sold peptide complex in the word. Before we go and find out what the big deal with Matrixyl 3000 is, let's just focus on Palmitoyl Tripeptide-1 itself for a bit. It's a small three amino acid (they are the building blocks of all proteins) peptide with the amino sequence of glycine-histidine-lysine, or GHK. GHK is attached to palmitic acid (a fatty acid) to increase oil solubility and skin penetration. The GHK part is the important one as it's a type I collagen fragment. When collagen naturally breaks down in the skin, the resulting peptide fragments signal to the skin that it should get to work and create some nice, new collagen. Adding in collagen fragment peptides, like GHK, might trick the skin into thinking that collagen has broken down and it's time to create some more. Therefore, Palmitoyl Tripeptide-1 is believed to be able to stimulate collagen production in the skin, and more collagen means fewer wrinkles and younger looking skin. In Matrixyl 3000, Palmitoyl Tripeptide-1 is coupled with Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-7 and the duo works in synergy to reduce wrinkles and give younger looking skin. According to the manufacturer' what‑it‑does moisturizer/humectant | solvent irritancy, com. skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant soothing | antioxidant | antimicrobial/antibacterial | moisturizer/humectant perfuming | solvent cell-communicating ingredient | soothing | antioxidant preservative | antimicrobial/antibacterial solvent | moisturizer/humectant emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing