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MD Skinical Soothing Hydropeptide Serum

MD Skinical Soothing Hydropeptide Serum MD Skinical Soothing Hydropeptide Serum ingredients explained: Water, Palmitoyl Oligopeptide, Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-3, Palmitoyl Tripeptide-5, Acetyl Hexapeptide-8, Hexapeptide-19, Palmitoyl Tripeptide-37, Prezatide Cop

MD Skinical Soothing Hydropeptide Serum MD Skinical Soothing Hydropeptide Serum ingredients explained: Water, Palmitoyl Oligopeptide, Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-3, Palmitoyl Tripeptide-5, Acetyl Hexapeptide-8, Hexapeptide-19, Palmitoyl Tripeptide-37, Prezatide Copper Acetate, Vitamin B3, Vitamin B5, Malachite Extract, Chamomile Extract, Cucumber Extract, Aloe Vera Juice, Glycerin, Butylene Glycol, Menthol, Phenoxyethanol Show all ingredients by function Water solvent Palmitoyl Oligopeptide cell-communicating ingredient goodie Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-3 Palmitoyl Tripeptide-5 Acetyl Hexapeptide-8 cell-communicating ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant Hexapeptide-19 Palmitoyl Tripeptide-37 Prezatide Copper Acetate Vitamin B3 cell-communicating ingredient, skin brightening, anti-acne, moisturizer/​humectant superstar Vitamin B5 soothing, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 Malachite Extract antioxidant Chamomile Extract soothing, antioxidant Cucumber Extract soothing, emollient Aloe Vera Juice Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant Butylene Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, solvent 0, 1 Menthol soothing icky 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 six amino acid peptide that is claimed to improve firmness and skin tone. Its amino acid sequence is Val-Gly-Val-Ala-Pro-Gly that is also called the "spring fragment" and is repeated six times in the important skin protein, elastin molecule. The manufacturer made a double-blind, one-month long clinical study on 10 women and found that twice a day application of 4% Biopeptide El improved skin firmness by 33% and skin tone by 20%. A four amino acid peptide with the amino sequence of glycine-glutamine-proline-arginine. It is attached to palmitic acid (a fatty acid) to increase oil solubility and skin penetration. It works by reducing the production of the signal molecule, interleukin-6 (IL-6) which promotes inflammation in the skin and less inflammation means slower degradation of important things (like collagen) that results in younger looking skin for a longer time. It works in synergy with its pal, Palmitoyl Tripeptide-1 in the famous Matrixyl 3000 complex. You can read some more about the famous duo here. A tripeptide (three amino acids attached to each other: Lys-Val-Lys) that's claimed to protect and boost collagen and improve skin texture. The manufacturer did an in-vivo (made on real people) study with 45 volunteers and found that used twice daily for 84 days 1% and 2.5% Syn-Coll reduces the appearance of wrinkles by 7 and 12% respectively. In another study (also by the manufacturer) with 33 female Chinese volunteers, 77% of the participants felt that Syn-Coll visibly improved the firmness and elasticity of the skin after 4 weeks. What's more, 60% of the participants also noticed a reduction in the look of the pore size also after 4 weeks of treatment. If you see a cosmetic product that claims that it has "Botox-like effect" then two things are almost certain: one, the product overpromises and two, it contains Argireline. So this one is the famous peptide that's marketed by its manufacturer as the "Botox in a jar". The basis for this claim is that it targets the same wrinkle forming mechanism (wrinkles caused by facial muscle movement) as Botox, but the way it works is very different. In addition, the extent to which it can prevent muscles from contracting (and to smooth wrinkles) is very different (otherwise why would anyone use still Botox?). The manufacturer did several studies to prove th what‑it‑does cell-communicating ingredient | moisturizer/humectant cell-communicating ingredient | skin brightening | anti-acne | moisturizer/humectant soothing | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. soothing | antioxidant soothing | emollient skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant moisturizer/humectant | solvent

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