Makeup Artist's Choice Peptide Serum with Botanicals

Makeup Artist's Choice Peptide Serum with Botanicals Makeup Artist's Choice Peptide Serum with Botanicals ingredients explained: Purified Water, Glycerin, Butylene Glycol, Propylene Glycol, Palmitoyl Pentapeptide-3 (Matrixyl), Calendula Officinalis Flower Extract, Citrus Medica Limonum (Lemon Bioflavonoids) Leaf Extract, Equisetum Arvense Extract, Humulus Lupulus (Hops) Extract, Pinus Sylvestris Cone Extract, Rhamnus Purshiana Bark Extract, Rosmarinus Officinalis (Rosemary) Leaf Extract, Saccharomyces Lysate Extract, Allantoin, Glycoproteins, Sodium Hyaluronate, Polysorbate 20, Carbomer, Hydroxyethylcellulose, Sodium Hydroxide, Benzyl Alcohol, Methylisothiazolinone Show all ingredients by function Purified Water solvent Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Butylene Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, solvent 0, 1 Propylene Glycol Palmitoyl Pentapeptide-3 (Matrixyl) cell-communicating ingredient goodie Calendula Officinalis Flower Extract soothing, antioxidant, perfuming Citrus Medica Limonum (Lemon Bioflavonoids) Leaf Extract Equisetum Arvense Extract soothing, emollient Humulus Lupulus (Hops) Extract soothing, antimicrobial/​antibacterial, emollient, perfuming Pinus Sylvestris Cone Extract perfuming Rhamnus Purshiana Bark Extract Rosmarinus Officinalis (Rosemary) Leaf Extract antioxidant, soothing, antimicrobial/​antibacterial Saccharomyces Lysate Extract moisturizer/​humectant Allantoin soothing Glycoproteins Sodium Hyaluronate Polysorbate 20 emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing Carbomer viscosity controlling Hydroxyethylcellulose Sodium Hydroxide buffering Benzyl Alcohol preservative, perfuming, solvent, viscosity controlling Methylisothiazolinone preservative icky 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 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. It's a helper ingredient that improves the freeze-thaw stability of products It's also a solvent, humectant and to some extent a penetration enhancer It has a bad reputation among natural cosmetics advocates but cosmetic scientists and toxicology experts do not agree (read more in the geeky details section) A pretty famous and better-researched peptide consisting of five amino acids (the building blocks of all proteins). It was created in a joint effort by the French ingredient supplier, Sederma and the cosmetics industry big shot, Procter&Gamble. The amino acid sequence of the peptide is lysine–threonine–threonine–lysine–serine (KTTKS). Sometimes, it's also called collagen pentapeptide, as it's a subfragment of skin-structure-giving type I collagen. The KTTKS amino sequence is then attached for better oil solubility and skin penetration to palmitic acid and BOOM; we get Palmitoyl Pentapeptide-4. Though most research is manufacturer sponsored, the clinical studies about Palmitoyl Pentapeptide-4 are promising. In short, it can reduce fine lines, wrinkles and improve skin texture significantly (and at crazy low concentrations, the studies were done with just 3 ppm that is 0.0003%). There are what‑it‑does skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. moisturizer/humectant | solvent soothing | antioxidant | perfuming soothing | emollient soothing | antimicrobial/antibacterial | emollient | perfuming antioxidant | soothing | antimicrobial/antibacterial moisturizer/humectant emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing preservative | perfuming | solvent | viscosity controlling

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