Outdoor Girl Vitamina C+E Collagen Serum

Outdoor Girl Vitamina C+E Collagen Serum Outdoor Girl Vitamina C+E Collagen Serum ingredients explained: Aqua, Butylene Glycol, Hyaluronic Acid, Soluble Collagen, 3-O-Ethyl Ascorbic Acid, Tocopheryl Acetate, Citrus Paradisi Fruit Extract, Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Extract, Biosaccharide Gum-1, Polyquaternium-22, Potassium Sorbate, Sodium Benzoate, Artemisia Annua Leaf Extract, Cnidium Monnieri Extract, Phenoxyethanol, PEG-10 Hydrogenated Castor Oil, PEG/PPG-25/30 Copolymer, Propylene Glycol Show all ingredients by function Aqua solvent Butylene Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, solvent 0, 1 Hyaluronic Acid skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant goodie Soluble Collagen moisturizer/​humectant 3-O-Ethyl Ascorbic Acid antioxidant, skin brightening Tocopheryl Acetate antioxidant 0, 0 Citrus Paradisi Fruit Extract Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Extract soothing, emollient, moisturizer/​humectant Biosaccharide Gum-1 soothing, moisturizer/​humectant Polyquaternium-22 Potassium Sorbate preservative Sodium Benzoate Artemisia Annua Leaf Extract antimicrobial/​antibacterial, perfuming Cnidium Monnieri Extract Phenoxyethanol PEG-10 Hydrogenated Castor Oil emollient, emulsifying PEG/PPG-25/30 Copolymer Propylene Glycol 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. It’s naturally in our skin and behaves there like a sponge It can bind up to 1000 times its own weight in water It is a big molecule from repeated subunits (polymer) so different molecular weight versions exist (unfortunately there is no way to determine MW from INCI list only) High-molecular-weight-HA (>500 kDa) is an excellent surface hydrator, skin protectant and can act as an osmotic pump helping water-soluble actives to penetrate deeper into the skin Low-molecular-weight-HA (< 500 kDa) can hydrate the skin somewhat deeper though it is still a big molecule and works mainly in the epidermis (outer layer of the skin) Low-molecular-weight-HA might also help the skin to repair itself by increasing its self-defense (~ 200kDa used in the study) Ultra-low-molecular-weight-HA (<50kDa) is a controversial ingredient and might work as a pro-inflammatory signal molecule Soluble Collagen refers to the big, natural collagen molecules mostly extracted from fish or bovine skin. Spotting collagen on the ingredient list, you might think that, aha, this must be there to supplement the collagen content of our own skin, but you have to know that collagen is a huge-huge molecule that cannot absorb to the middle layer of the skin where collagen is and even if it could, it cannot just magically go the right places to become part of the skin's own collagen network. Putting collagen on your skin for anti-aging purposes is like throwing tent poles onto a ramshackle tent and expecting the tent to magically become nice and firm again. The strong point of collagen is being a large molecule with tremendous water binding capacity, i.e. an amazing humectant and moisturizer. It produces a water- what‑it‑does moisturizer/humectant | solvent irritancy, com. skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant moisturizer/humectant antioxidant | skin brightening soothing | emollient | moisturizer/humectant soothing | moisturizer/humectant antimicrobial/antibacterial | perfuming emollient | emulsifying

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