NeoGenesis Beta Hydrogel Mask

NeoGenesis Beta Hydrogel Mask NeoGenesis Beta Hydrogel Mask ingredients explained: Water, Beta-Glucan, Butylene Glycol, Ceratonia Siliqua Gum, Glucomannan, Chondrus Crispus Powder, PEG-60 Hydrogenated Castor Oil, Licorice Root Extract, Ginger Root Extract, Schisandra Chinensis Fruit Extract, Coptis Japonica Root Extract, Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract, Asiaticoside, Propolis Wax, Ethylhexylglycerin, 1,2-Hexanediol, Chlorphenesin, Disodium EDTA, Fragrance Show all ingredients by function Water solvent Beta-Glucan soothing, moisturizer/​humectant goodie Butylene Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, solvent 0, 1 Ceratonia Siliqua Gum emollient, viscosity controlling Glucomannan moisturizer/​humectant Chondrus Crispus Powder abrasive/​scrub PEG-60 Hydrogenated Castor Oil emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing Licorice Root Extract soothing, skin brightening superstar Ginger Root Extract antioxidant, soothing Schisandra Chinensis Fruit Extract Coptis Japonica Root Extract soothing, antioxidant Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract Asiaticoside antioxidant, perfuming Propolis Wax emollient Ethylhexylglycerin preservative 1,2-Hexanediol Chlorphenesin preservative, antimicrobial/​antibacterial 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. Beta-Glucan is a nice big molecule composed of many smaller sugar molecules (called polysaccharide). It’s in the cell walls of yeast, some mushrooms, seaweeds, and cereals. It’s a real goodie no matter if you eat it or put it on your face. Eating it is anti-diabetic, anti-cancer, and even lowers blood cholesterol. Putting it on your face also does a bunch of good things: it‘s shown to have intensive skin repairing & wound healing properties, it’s a mild antioxidant, a great skin soother, and moisturizer, and it even shows promising anti-aging benefits. The manufacturer of the ingredient did a published study with 27 people and examined the effect of 0.1% beta-glucan. They found that despite the large molecular size the smaller factions of beta-glucan penetrate into the skin, even into the dermis (the middle layer of the skin where wrinkles form). After 8 weeks there was a significant reduction of wrinkle depth and height and skin roughness has also improved greatly. Bottom line: Beta-glucan is a great ingredient, especially for sensitive or damaged skin. It soothes, moisturizes, and has some anti-aging magic 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. We don't have description for this ingredient yet. Glucomannan is a polysaccharide (a big sugar molecule) coming from the Konjac plant. It has great water-absorbing capacity and is one of the key ingredients in the plumping and smoothing active called Ultra Filling Spheres by BASF. The magic filling spheres have two active parts: a kind of LMW hyaluronic acid (<40 kDa) and the konjac root powder or glucomannan. The latter one is a big molecule (> 200 kDa) that has outstanding water-absorbing capacities. These two combined form small spheres which aft what‑it‑does soothing | moisturizer/humectant moisturizer/humectant | solvent irritancy, com. emollient | viscosity controlling moisturizer/humectant abrasive/scrub emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing soothing | skin brightening antioxidant | soothing soothing | antioxidant antioxidant | perfuming preservative | antimicrobial/antibacterial

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