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Naruko Ampm 5% B5+GHK-Cu Hydrating Serum

Naruko Ampm 5% B5+GHK-Cu Hydrating Serum Naruko Ampm 5% B5+GHK-Cu Hydrating Serum ingredients explained: Water, Panthenol, Propanediol, Arginine, Phenoxyethanol, Carbomer, Chlorphenesin, PEG-40 Hydrogenated Castor Oil, Sodium Hyaluronate, Malachite Extract, Gl

Naruko Ampm 5% B5+GHK-Cu Hydrating Serum Naruko Ampm 5% B5+GHK-Cu Hydrating Serum ingredients explained: Water, Panthenol, Propanediol, Arginine, Phenoxyethanol, Carbomer, Chlorphenesin, PEG-40 Hydrogenated Castor Oil, Sodium Hyaluronate, Malachite Extract, Glycerin, Fragrance, Butylene Glycol, Copper Tripeptide-1, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Cetyl Palmitate, Hesperidin Methyl Chalcone, Sorbitan Laurate, Polysorbate 80, Sorbitan Stearate, Steareth-20, Hydroxyethylcellulose, Polysorbate 20, Acetyl Dipeptide-1 Cetyl Ester, Palmitoyl Tripeptide-5, Dipeptide Diaminobutyroyl Benzylamide Diacetate, Sodium Citrate, Potassium Sorbate, Sodium Benzoate, Citric Acid, Hydrogenated Lecithin, Dipeptide-2, Palmitoyl Hexapeptide-12, Tocopherol, Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-7, Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-10, Palmitoyl Pentapeptide-4, Palmitoyl Tripeptide-1 Show all ingredients by function Water solvent Panthenol soothing, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 goodie Propanediol solvent, moisturizer/​humectant Arginine skin-identical ingredient Phenoxyethanol preservative Carbomer viscosity controlling 0, 1 Chlorphenesin preservative, antimicrobial/​antibacterial PEG-40 Hydrogenated Castor Oil emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing Sodium Hyaluronate skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant Malachite Extract antioxidant Glycerin superstar Fragrance perfuming icky Butylene Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, solvent Copper Tripeptide-1 cell-communicating ingredient, soothing, antioxidant Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride emollient Cetyl Palmitate Hesperidin Methyl Chalcone Sorbitan Laurate emulsifying 1-2, 1-2 Polysorbate 80 Sorbitan Stearate 1, 0 Steareth-20 1, 2 Hydroxyethylcellulose Polysorbate 20 Acetyl Dipeptide-1 Cetyl Ester cell-communicating ingredient, soothing Palmitoyl Tripeptide-5 cell-communicating ingredient Dipeptide Diaminobutyroyl Benzylamide Diacetate Sodium Citrate chelating, buffering Potassium Sorbate Sodium Benzoate Citric Acid buffering Hydrogenated Lecithin emollient, emulsifying Dipeptide-2 Palmitoyl Hexapeptide-12 Tocopherol 0-3, 0-3 Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-7 Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-10 Palmitoyl Pentapeptide-4 Palmitoyl Tripeptide-1 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. An easy-to-formulate, commonly used, nice to have ingredient that’s also called pro-vitamin B5. As you might guess from the “pro” part, it’s a precursor to vitamin B5 (whose fancy name is pantothenic acid). Its main job in skincare products is to moisturise the skin. It’s a humectant meaning that it can help the skin to attract water and then hold onto it. There is also research showing that panthenol can help our skin to produce more lovely lipids that are important for a strong and healthy skin barrier. Another great thing about panthenol is that it has anti-inflammatory and skin protecting abilities. A study shows that it can reduce the irritation caused by less-nice other ingredients (e.g. fragrance, preservatives or chemical sunscreens) in the product. Research also shows that it might be useful for wound healing as it promotes fibroblast (nice type of cells in our skin that produce skin-firming collagen) proliferation. If that wasn’t enough panthenol is also useful in nail and hair care products. A study shows that a nail treatment liquide with 2% panthenol could effectively get into the nail and significantly increase the hydration of it. As for the hair the hydration effect is also true there. Panthenol might make your hair softer, more elastic and helps to comb your hair more easily. 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. A semi-essential (infants cannot synthesize it, but adults can) amino acid that is one of the primary building blocks of hair keratin and skin collagen. It's a natural moisturizing factor, a skin hydrator and might also help to speed up wound healing. Arginine usually has a positive charge (cationic) that makes it substantive to skin and hair (those are more negatively charged surfaces) and an excellent film former. Thanks to the positive charge, it also creates a complex with AHAs (AHAs like to lose a hydrogen ion and be negatively charged, so the positive and the negative ions attract each other) that causes a "time-release AHA effect" and reduces the irritation associated wi what‑it‑does soothing | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. solvent | moisturizer/humectant preservative | antimicrobial/antibacterial emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant moisturizer/humectant | solvent cell-communicating ingredient | soothing | antioxidant cell-communicating ingredient | soothing chelating | buffering emollient | emulsifying

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