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Mixsoon Glacier Water Hyaluronic Acid Serum

Mixsoon Glacier Water Hyaluronic Acid Serum Mixsoon Glacier Water Hyaluronic Acid Serum ingredients explained: Water, Dipropylene Glycol, 1,2-Hexanediol, Glycerin, Propanediol, Hyaluronic Acid, Hydrolyzed Hyaluronic Acid, Sodium Hyaluronate, Glyceryl Glucoside

Mixsoon Glacier Water Hyaluronic Acid Serum Mixsoon Glacier Water Hyaluronic Acid Serum ingredients explained: Water, Dipropylene Glycol, 1,2-Hexanediol, Glycerin, Propanediol, Hyaluronic Acid, Hydrolyzed Hyaluronic Acid, Sodium Hyaluronate, Glyceryl Glucoside, Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein, Maltodextrin, Dioscorea Japonica Root Extract, Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Extract, Laminaria Japonica Extract, Ulmus Davidiana Root Extract, Viola Mandshurica Flower Extract, Water, Butylene Glycol, Glycereth-25 Pca Isostearate, Erythritol, Tricholoma Matsutake Extract, Hydrolyzed Cicer Seed Extract, Rhododendron Chrysanthum Leaf Extract, Ethylhexylglycerin, Disodium EDTA, Fragrance Show all ingredients by function Water solvent Dipropylene Glycol 1,2-Hexanediol Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Propanediol solvent, moisturizer/​humectant Hyaluronic Acid goodie Hydrolyzed Hyaluronic Acid moisturizer/​humectant Sodium Hyaluronate Glyceryl Glucoside Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein Maltodextrin Dioscorea Japonica Root Extract Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Extract soothing, emollient, moisturizer/​humectant Laminaria Japonica Extract Ulmus Davidiana Root Extract Viola Mandshurica Flower Extract antioxidant Butylene Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, solvent 0, 1 Glycereth-25 Pca Isostearate emulsifying Erythritol Tricholoma Matsutake Extract Hydrolyzed Cicer Seed Extract Rhododendron Chrysanthum Leaf Extract soothing Ethylhexylglycerin preservative Disodium EDTA chelating Fragrance perfuming 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 clear, colorless liquid that works as a solvent and viscosity decreasing ingredient. It also has great skin-moisturizing abilities. A really multi-functional helper ingredient that can do several things in a skincare product: it can bring a soft and pleasant feel to the formula, it can act as a humectant and emollient, it can be a solvent for some other ingredients (for example it can help to stabilize perfumes in watery products) and it can also help to disperse pigments more evenly in makeup products. And that is still not all: it can also boost the antimicrobial activity of preservatives. 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 Propanediol is a natural alternative for the often used and often bad-mouthed propylene glycol. It's produced sustainably from corn sugar and it's Ecocert approved. It's quite a multi-tasker: can be used to improve skin moisturization, as a solvent, to boost preservative efficacy or to influence the sensory properties of the end formula. It’s naturally in our skin and behaves there like a sponge It can bind up to 1000 times its own weight in water It is a big molecule from repeated subunits (polymer) so different molecular weight versions exist (unfortunately there is no way to determine MW from INCI list only) High-molecular-weight-HA (>500 kDa) is an excellent surface hydrator, skin protectant and can act as an osmotic pump helping water-soluble actives to penetrate deeper into the skin Low-molecular-weight-HA (< 500 kDa) can hydrate the skin somewhat deeper though it is still a big molecule and works mainly in the epidermis (outer layer of the skin) Low-molecular-weight-HA might also help the skin to repair itself by increasing its self-defense (~ 200kDa used in the study) Ultra-low-molecular-weight-HA (<50kDa) is a controversial ingredient and might work as a pro-inflammatory signal molecule Hydrolyzed Hyaluronic Acid is a low mol what‑it‑does skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. solvent | moisturizer/humectant moisturizer/humectant soothing | emollient | moisturizer/humectant moisturizer/humectant | solvent

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