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Ouhoe Snake Venom Peptide Eye Essence
Ouhoe Snake Venom Peptide Eye Essence Ouhoe Snake Venom Peptide Eye Essence ingredients explained: Aqua, Arginine/Lysine Polypeptide, Centella Asiatica Extract, Melaleuca Alternifolia (Tea Tree) Leaf Oil, Niacinamide Show all ingredients by function Aqua solve
Ouhoe Snake Venom Peptide Eye Essence Ouhoe Snake Venom Peptide Eye Essence ingredients explained: Aqua, Arginine/Lysine Polypeptide, Centella Asiatica Extract, Melaleuca Alternifolia (Tea Tree) Leaf Oil, Niacinamide Show all ingredients by function Aqua solvent Arginine/Lysine Polypeptide Centella Asiatica Extract soothing, antioxidant, moisturizer/humectant goodie Melaleuca Alternifolia (Tea Tree) Leaf Oil soothing, anti-acne, antioxidant, antimicrobial/antibacterial, perfuming Niacinamide cell-communicating ingredient, skin brightening, anti-acne, moisturizer/humectant superstar 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. We don't have description for this ingredient yet. Centella Asiatica - or sometimes also called Gotu Kola or Cica - has been used in folk medicine for hundreds of years. It’s traditionally used to improve small wounds, burns and scratches and it’s also a well known anti-inflammatory agent for eczema. Recently science has taken an interest in Gotu Kola as well and it turns out it really has many active compounds with several benefits. Just for hard-core geeks, the main biologically active compounds are pentacyclic triterpenoid saponins called asiaticoside, madecassoside, asiatic and madecassic acid (also called centellosides). One of the biological activities of the centellosides is to be able to stimulate GAGs (glycosaminoglycans - polysaccharides that are part of the liquidy stuff between our skin cells), and especially hyaluronic acid synthesis in our skin. This is probably one of the reasons why Centella Asiatica Extract has nice skin moisturizing properties that was confirmed by a 25 people, four weeks study along with Centella's anti-inflammatory effects. Madecassoside can also help in burn wound healing through increasing antioxidant activity and enhancing collagen synthesis. Asiaticoside was shown to increase antioxidant levels on rats skin when applied at 0.2%. Centella Asiatica also often shows up in products that try to treat cellulite or striae. Of course, it cannot make a miracle but it might have some effect via regulating microcirculation and normalizing the metabolism in the cells of connective tissues. Bottom line: Gotu Kola is a great plant ingredient with proven wound healing, anti-inflammatory, and antioxidant properties. Nice to spot on any ingredient list. The famous tea tree oil. One of the best known essential oils which comes from Australia where it has been used for almost 100 years for its antiseptic and anti-inflammatory actions. Legend has it that the medicinal benefits of the oil were considered so important that Australian soldiers were supplied with some tea tree oil in their World War II military kit. Similar to other essential oils, tea tree oil is a very complex chemical mixture consisting of about 100 components, the major ones being terpinen-4-ol (40%), γ-Terpinene (23%) and α-Terpinene (10%). Terpinen-4-ol is considered to be the main active component but as a gr what‑it‑does soothing | antioxidant | moisturizer/humectant soothing | anti-acne | antioxidant | antimicrobial/antibacterial | perfuming cell-communicating ingredient | skin brightening | anti-acne | moisturizer/humectant