Nourish London Protect Replenishing Peptide Serum

Nourish London Protect Replenishing Peptide Serum Nourish London Protect Replenishing Peptide Serum ingredients explained: Aqua (Water), Glycerin, Aloe Barbadensis (Aloe Vera) Leaf Powder, Citrus Limon (Lemon) Fruit Powder, Palmitoyl Tripeptide-5, Sodium Hyaluronate, Sodium Ascorbyl Phosphate, Cetearyl Glucoside, Levulinic Acid, Xanthan Gum, Sodium Levulinate, Citrus Aurantium Dulcis (Orange) Peel Oil, Citrus Nobilis (Mandarin Orange) Oil, Potassium Sorbate, Limonene, Linalool Show all ingredients by function Aqua (Water) solvent Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Aloe Barbadensis (Aloe Vera) Leaf Powder Citrus Limon (Lemon) Fruit Powder Palmitoyl Tripeptide-5 cell-communicating ingredient goodie Sodium Hyaluronate Sodium Ascorbyl Phosphate antioxidant, anti-acne Cetearyl Glucoside emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing Levulinic Acid perfuming Xanthan Gum viscosity controlling Sodium Levulinate Citrus Aurantium Dulcis (Orange) Peel Oil icky Citrus Nobilis (Mandarin Orange) Oil Potassium Sorbate preservative Limonene perfuming, solvent Linalool 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 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 We don't have description for this ingredient yet. A tripeptide (three amino acids attached to each other: Lys-Val-Lys) that's claimed to protect and boost collagen and improve skin texture. The manufacturer did an in-vivo (made on real people) study with 45 volunteers and found that used twice daily for 84 days 1% and 2.5% Syn-Coll reduces the appearance of wrinkles by 7 and 12% respectively. In another study (also by the manufacturer) with 33 female Chinese volunteers, 77% of the participants felt that Syn-Coll visibly improved the firmness and elasticity of the skin after 4 weeks. What's more, 60% of the participants also noticed a reduction in the look of the pore size also after 4 weeks of treatment. It’s the - sodium form - cousin of the famous NMF, hyaluronic acid (HA). If HA does not tell you anything we have a super detailed, geeky explanation about it here. The TL; DR version of HA is that it's a huge polymer (big molecule from repeated subunits) found in the skin that acts as a sponge helping the skin to hold onto water, being plump and elastic. HA is famous for its crazy water holding capacity as it can bind up to 1000 times its own weight in water. As far as skincare goes, sodium hyaluronate and hyaluronic acid are pretty much the same and the two names are used interchangeably. As cosmetic chemist kindofstephen writes on reddit "sodium hyaluronate disassociates into hyaluronic acid molecule and a sodium atom in solution". In spite of this, if you search for "hyaluronic acid vs sodium hyaluronate" you will find on multiple places that sodium hyaluronate is smaller and can penetrate the skin better. Chemically, this is definitely not true, as the two forms are almost the same, both are polymers and the subunits can be repeated in both forms as much as you like. (We also checked Prospector for sodium hyaluronate what‑it‑does skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. antioxidant | anti-acne emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing perfuming | solvent

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