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Miamo Multi-peptide 20% Lifting Serum
Miamo Multi-peptide 20% Lifting Serum Miamo Multi-peptide 20% Lifting Serum ingredients explained: Aqua (Water), Glycerin, Pentylene Glycol, Carrageenan (Chondrus Crispus Extract), Butylene Glycol, Hydroxyacetophenone, Sodium Hyaluronate, Chlorphenesin, Trisod
Miamo Multi-peptide 20% Lifting Serum Miamo Multi-peptide 20% Lifting Serum ingredients explained: Aqua (Water), Glycerin, Pentylene Glycol, Carrageenan (Chondrus Crispus Extract), Butylene Glycol, Hydroxyacetophenone, Sodium Hyaluronate, Chlorphenesin, Trisodium Ethylenediamine Disuccinate, Caprylyl Glycol, Carbomer, Dipeptide Diaminobutyroyl Benzylamide Diacetate, Polysorbate 20, Acetyl Hexapeptide-8, Acetyl Octapeptide-3, Pentapeptide-18, Palmitoyl Tripeptide-1, Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-7 Show all ingredients by function Aqua (Water) solvent Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/humectant 0, 0 superstar Pentylene Glycol solvent, moisturizer/humectant Carrageenan (Chondrus Crispus Extract) viscosity controlling Butylene Glycol moisturizer/humectant, solvent 0, 1 Hydroxyacetophenone antioxidant, preservative Sodium Hyaluronate goodie Chlorphenesin preservative, antimicrobial/antibacterial Trisodium Ethylenediamine Disuccinate chelating Caprylyl Glycol moisturizer/humectant, emollient Carbomer Dipeptide Diaminobutyroyl Benzylamide Diacetate cell-communicating ingredient Polysorbate 20 emulsifying, surfactant/cleansing Acetyl Hexapeptide-8 cell-communicating ingredient, moisturizer/humectant Acetyl Octapeptide-3 Pentapeptide-18 Palmitoyl Tripeptide-1 Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-7 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 A multi-functional, silky feeling helper ingredient that can do quite many things. It's used as an emulsion stabilizer, solvent and a broad spectrum antimicrobial. According to manufacturer info, it's also a moisturizer and helps to make the product feel great on the skin. It works synergistically with preservatives and helps to improve water-resistance of sunscreens. A natural polysaccharide (big sugar molecule) coming from red edible seaweeds. It is used as a helper ingredient for its gelling, thickening and stabilizing properties. 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 handy multifunctional ingredient that works as a preservative booster, as well as an antioxidant and soothing agent. It’s the - sodium form - cousin of the famous NMF, hyaluronic acid (HA). If HA does not tell you anything we have a super detailed, geeky explanation about it here. The TL; DR version of HA is that it's a huge polymer (big molecule from repeated subunits) found in the skin that acts as a sponge helping the skin to hold onto water, being plump and elastic. HA is famous for its crazy water holding capacity as it can bind up to 1000 times its own weight in water. As far as skincare goes, sodium hyaluronate and hyaluronic acid are pretty much the s what‑it‑does skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. solvent | moisturizer/humectant moisturizer/humectant | solvent antioxidant | preservative preservative | antimicrobial/antibacterial moisturizer/humectant | emollient emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing cell-communicating ingredient | moisturizer/humectant