No7 Laboratories Line Fix Lifting Serum

No7 Laboratories Line Fix Lifting Serum No7 Laboratories Line Fix Lifting Serum ingredients explained: Aqua (Water), Butylene Glycol, Magnesium Aluminum Silicate, Polymethyl Methacrylate, PVP, Propanediol, Ethylhexylglycerin, Glycerin, Phenoxyethanol, Caesalpinia Spinosa Gum, Acmella Oleracea Extract, Citric Acid, Sodium Hyaluronate, Caprylyl Glycol, Acetyl Hexapeptide-8 Show all ingredients by function Aqua (Water) solvent Butylene Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, solvent 0, 1 Magnesium Aluminum Silicate viscosity controlling 0, 0 Polymethyl Methacrylate PVP Propanediol solvent, moisturizer/​humectant Ethylhexylglycerin preservative Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant superstar Phenoxyethanol Caesalpinia Spinosa Gum Acmella Oleracea Extract Citric Acid buffering Sodium Hyaluronate goodie Caprylyl Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, emollient Acetyl Hexapeptide-8 cell-communicating ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 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. 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 type of clay mineral that works as a nice helper ingredient to thicken and stabilize formulas. As a clay, it consists of platelets that have a negative charge on the surface (face) and a positive on the edge. So the face of one platelet attracts the edge of the other and this builds a so-called "house of card" structure meaning that Magnesium Aluminum Silicate (MAS) thickens up products and helps to suspend non-soluble particles such as color pigments or inorganic sunscreens (zinc oxide and titanium dioxide). As the "house of card" structure takes some time to form but collapses quickly if the formula is stirred, products thickened with MAS can be thick in the jar but become easily spreadable upon application (called thixotropy). MAS also gives nice sensory properties, it is not tacky or sticky and gives a rich, creamy skin feel. Also a good team player and works in synergy with other thickeners such as Cellulose Gum or Xanthan Gum. A so-called polymer microsphere, i.e. little spherical shaped particles from repeated subunits. Similar to other microsphere powders, it can scatter the light to give products a soft focus or blurring effect. It also works as a texture enhancer giving formulas an exceptional smoothness and a velvet touch. These three letters stand for Poly Vinyl Pyrollidone, a big molecule created from repeated units of Vinyl Pyrrolidone, aka VP. Its main thing is being an important film former. It was the first synthetic polymer introduced as a hair fixative in the 1950s instead of insect-derived Shellac. So PVP likes to attach itself to surfaces such as the hair and the skin and forms a nice, thin, even film there. The film is useful for holding a ha what‑it‑does moisturizer/humectant | solvent irritancy, com. solvent | moisturizer/humectant skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant moisturizer/humectant | emollient cell-communicating ingredient | moisturizer/humectant

Open original product source