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Oh K Black Sesame Hydrogel Mask

Oh K Black Sesame Hydrogel Mask Oh K Black Sesame Hydrogel Mask ingredients explained: Aqua (Water), Glycerin, Dipropylene Glycol, 1,2-Hexanediol, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Chondrus Crispus (Carrageenan) Powder, Ceratonia Siliqua (Carob) Gum, Glyceryl Stea

Oh K Black Sesame Hydrogel Mask Oh K Black Sesame Hydrogel Mask ingredients explained: Aqua (Water), Glycerin, Dipropylene Glycol, 1,2-Hexanediol, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Chondrus Crispus (Carrageenan) Powder, Ceratonia Siliqua (Carob) Gum, Glyceryl Stearate, Cellulose Gum, Sodium Polyacrylate, Hydrogenated Polydecene, Trideceth-6, Phenoxyethanol, Butylene Glycol, Sesamum Indicum (Sesame) Seed Extract, Sesamum Indicum (Sesame) Seed Powder, Disodium EDTA Show all ingredients by function Aqua (Water) solvent Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Dipropylene Glycol 1,2-Hexanediol Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride emollient Chondrus Crispus (Carrageenan) Powder abrasive/​scrub Ceratonia Siliqua (Carob) Gum emollient, viscosity controlling Glyceryl Stearate emollient, emulsifying 0, 1 Cellulose Gum viscosity controlling Sodium Polyacrylate Hydrogenated Polydecene emollient, perfuming, solvent Trideceth-6 emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing Phenoxyethanol preservative Butylene Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, solvent Sesamum Indicum (Sesame) Seed Extract soothing Sesamum Indicum (Sesame) Seed Powder Disodium EDTA chelating 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 A clear, colorless liquid that works as a solvent and viscosity decreasing ingredient. It also has great skin-moisturizing abilities. A really multi-functional helper ingredient that can do several things in a skincare product: it can bring a soft and pleasant feel to the formula, it can act as a humectant and emollient, it can be a solvent for some other ingredients (for example it can help to stabilize perfumes in watery products) and it can also help to disperse pigments more evenly in makeup products. And that is still not all: it can also boost the antimicrobial activity of preservatives. A super common emollient that makes your skin feel nice and smooth. It comes from coconut oil and glycerin, it’s light-textured, clear, odorless and non-greasy. It’s a nice ingredient that just feels good on the skin, is super well tolerated by every skin type and easy to formulate with. No wonder it’s popular. We don't have description for this ingredient yet. A super common, waxy, white, solid stuff that helps water and oil to mix together, gives body to creams and leaves the skin feeling soft and smooth. Chemically speaking, it is the attachment of a glycerin molecule to the fatty acid called stearic acid. It can be produced from most vegetable oils (in oils three fatty acid molecules are attached to glycerin instead of just one like here) in a pretty simple, "green" process that is similar to soap making. It's readily biodegradable. It also occurs naturally in our body and is used as a food additive. As cosmetic chemist Colins writes it, "its safety really is beyond any doubt". A cellulose (the big molecule found in the cell wall of green plants) derivative that is used as an emulsion stabilizer and thickener. A superabsorbent polymer (big molecule from repeated subunits) that has crazy water binding abilities. Sometimes its refer what‑it‑does skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. abrasive/scrub emollient | viscosity controlling emollient | emulsifying emollient | perfuming | solvent emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing moisturizer/humectant | solvent

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