Neutrogena Hydro Boost Hydrating 100% Hydrogel Mask

Neutrogena Hydro Boost Hydrating 100% Hydrogel Mask Neutrogena Hydro Boost Hydrating 100% Hydrogel Mask ingredients explained: Water, Dipropylene Glycol, Propanediol, Ceratonia Siliqua (Carob) Gum, Xanthan Gum, Carrageenan, Chlorphenesin, PEG-60 Hydrogenated Castor Oil, Phenoxyethanol, Potassium Chloride, Fragrance, Disodium EDTA, Hydrolyzed Hyaluronic Acid, Tremella Fuciformis Sporocarp Extract, Plukenetia Volubilis Seed Oil, Sucrose Cocoate, Blue 1 Show all ingredients by function Water solvent Dipropylene Glycol Propanediol solvent, moisturizer/​humectant Ceratonia Siliqua (Carob) Gum emollient, viscosity controlling Xanthan Gum viscosity controlling Carrageenan Chlorphenesin preservative, antimicrobial/​antibacterial PEG-60 Hydrogenated Castor Oil emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing Phenoxyethanol preservative Potassium Chloride Fragrance perfuming icky Disodium EDTA chelating Hydrolyzed Hyaluronic Acid moisturizer/​humectant goodie Tremella Fuciformis Sporocarp Extract antioxidant, moisturizer/​humectant Plukenetia Volubilis Seed Oil antioxidant, emollient, moisturizer/​humectant Sucrose Cocoate emulsifying Blue 1 colorant 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. 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. We don't have description for this ingredient yet. It's one of the most commonly used thickeners and emulsion stabilizers. If the product is too runny, a little xanthan gum will make it more gel-like. Used alone, it can make the formula sticky and it is a good team player so it is usually combined with other thickeners and so-called rheology modifiers (helper ingredients that adjust the flow and thus the feel of the formula). The typical use level of Xantha Gum is below 1%, it is usually in the 0.1-0.5% range. Btw, Xanthan gum is all natural, a chain of sugar molecules (polysaccharide) produced from individual sugar molecules (glucose and sucrose) via fermentation. It’s approved by Ecocert and also used in the food industry (E415). 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. A little helper ingredient that works as a preservative. It works against bacteria and some species of fungi and yeast. It's often combined with IT-preservative, phenoxyethanol. A castor oil derived, white, lard-like helper ingredient that is used as a solubilizer to put fragrances (those are oil loving things) into water-based products such as toners. It’s pretty much the current IT-preservative. It’s safe and gentle, but even more importantly, it’s not a feared-by-everyone-mostly-without-scientific-reason paraben. It’s not something new: it was introduced around 1950 and today it can be used up to 1% worldwide. It can be found in nature - in green tea - but the version used in cosmetics is synthetic. Other than having a good safety profile and being quite gentle to the skin it has some other advantages too. It can be used in many types of formulations as it has great thermal stability (can be heated up to 85°C) and works on a wide range of what‑it‑does solvent | moisturizer/humectant emollient | viscosity controlling preservative | antimicrobial/antibacterial emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing moisturizer/humectant antioxidant | moisturizer/humectant antioxidant | emollient | moisturizer/humectant

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