ME+ Caffeine Eye Cream

ME+ Caffeine Eye Cream ME+ Caffeine Eye Cream ingredients explained: Aqua, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Propylene Glycol, Butyrospermum Parkii Butter, Isopropyl Myristate, Glyceryl Stearate, Dimethicone, Polyglyceryl-3 Methylglucose Distearate, Caffeine, Stearyl Alcohol, Phenoxyethanol, Coffea Arabica Seed Extract, Betaine, Stearic Acid, Caprylyl Glycol, Carbomer, Glycerin, Xanthan Gum, Butylene Glycol, Lecithin, Tocopheryl Acetate, Disodium EDTA, Sodium Hydroxide, Tetrapeptide-21 Show all ingredients by function Aqua solvent Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride emollient Propylene Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, solvent 0, 0 Butyrospermum Parkii Butter goodie Isopropyl Myristate emollient, perfuming 3, 3-5 Glyceryl Stearate emollient, emulsifying 0, 1 Dimethicone Polyglyceryl-3 Methylglucose Distearate emulsifying Caffeine antioxidant, perfuming Stearyl Alcohol emollient, viscosity controlling, emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing 2, 2 Phenoxyethanol preservative Coffea Arabica Seed Extract Betaine moisturizer/​humectant Stearic Acid emollient, viscosity controlling 0, 2-3 Caprylyl Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, emollient Carbomer viscosity controlling Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant superstar Xanthan Gum Butylene Glycol Lecithin Tocopheryl Acetate antioxidant Disodium EDTA chelating Sodium Hydroxide buffering Tetrapeptide-21 cell-communicating ingredient 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 super common emollient that makes your skin feel nice and smooth. It comes from coconut oil and glycerin, it’s light-textured, clear, odorless and non-greasy. It’s a nice ingredient that just feels good on the skin, is super well tolerated by every skin type and easy to formulate with. No wonder it’s popular. 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) Unless you live under a rock you must have heard about shea butter. It's probably the most hyped up natural butter in skincare today. It comes from the seeds of African Shea or Karite Trees and used as a magic moisturizer and emollient. But it's not only a simple emollient, it regenerates and soothes the skin, protects it from external factors (such as UV rays or wind) and is also rich in antioxidants (among others vitamin A, E, F, quercetin and epigallocatechin gallate). If you are looking for rich emollient benefits + more, shea is hard to beat. A clear, colorless oil-like liquid that makes the skin feel smooth and nice (aka emollient) and it does so without it being greasy. What's more, it can even reduce the heavy, greasy feel in products with high oil content. It's also fast-spreading meaning that it gives the formula a good, nice slip. It absorbs quickly into the skin and helps other ingredients to penetrate quicker and deeper. Thanks to all this, it's one of the most commonly used emollients out there. There is just one little drawback: it has a high comedogenic index (5 out of 5...), so it might clog pores if you're prone to it. A super common, waxy, white, solid stuff that helps water and oil to mix together, gives body to creams and leaves the skin feeling soft and smooth. Chemically speaking, it is the attachment of a glycerin molecule to the fatty acid called stearic acid. It can be produced from most vegetable oils (in oils three fatty acid molecules are attached to glycerin instead of just one like here) in a pretty simple, "green" process that is similar to soap making. It's readily biodegradable. It also occurs naturally in our body and is used as a food additive. As cosmet what‑it‑does moisturizer/humectant | solvent irritancy, com. emollient | perfuming emollient | emulsifying antioxidant | perfuming emollient | viscosity controlling | emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing moisturizer/humectant emollient | viscosity controlling moisturizer/humectant | emollient skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant

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