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Paula's Choice C5 Super Boost Vitamin C Eye Cream
Paula's Choice C5 Super Boost Vitamin C Eye Cream Paula's Choice C5 Super Boost Vitamin C Eye Cream ingredients explained: Water, Dicaprylyl Carbonate, Glycerin, Triheptanoin, Ascorbyl Glucoside, 3-O Ethyl Ascorbic Acid, Hydroxyethyl Acrylate/Sodium Acry
Paula's Choice C5 Super Boost Vitamin C Eye Cream Paula's Choice C5 Super Boost Vitamin C Eye Cream ingredients explained: Water, Dicaprylyl Carbonate, Glycerin, Triheptanoin, Ascorbyl Glucoside, 3-O Ethyl Ascorbic Acid, Hydroxyethyl Acrylate/Sodium Acryloyldimethyl Taurate Copolymer, Arachidyl Alcohol, Cetearyl Alcohol, C13-15 Alkane, Ascorbyl Palmitate, SH Polypeptide-121, Acetyl Hexapeptide-8, Hyaluronic Acid, Zerumbone, Bacillus Ferment, Tocopherol, Tocopheryl Acetate, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea Butter) Unsaponifiables, Oryza Sativa (Rice) Bran Extract, Rosmarinus Officinalis (Rosemary) Leaf Extract, Helianthus Annuus, Sunflower Seed Extract, Hydrogenated Lecithin, Cetearyl Olivate, Sorbitan Olivate, Behenyl Alcohol, Arachidyl Glucoside, Propanediol, Butylene Glycol, Cetyl Alcohol, Sodium Phytate, Sodium Citrate, Citric Acid, Sodium Metabisulfite, Phenoxyethanol, Caprylyl Glycol, Ethylhexylglycerin, Hexylene Glycol, Sodium Hydroxide Show all ingredients by function Water solvent Dicaprylyl Carbonate emollient Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/humectant 0, 0 superstar Triheptanoin Ascorbyl Glucoside antioxidant, skin brightening goodie 3-O Ethyl Ascorbic Acid Hydroxyethyl Acrylate/Sodium Acryloyldimethyl Taurate Copolymer viscosity controlling Arachidyl Alcohol emollient, viscosity controlling Cetearyl Alcohol emollient, viscosity controlling, emulsifying, surfactant/cleansing 1, 2 C13-15 Alkane solvent, emollient Ascorbyl Palmitate antioxidant 0, 2 icky SH Polypeptide-121 Acetyl Hexapeptide-8 cell-communicating ingredient, moisturizer/humectant Hyaluronic Acid Zerumbone Bacillus Ferment Tocopherol 0-3, 0-3 Tocopheryl Acetate Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea Butter) Unsaponifiables Oryza Sativa (Rice) Bran Extract Rosmarinus Officinalis (Rosemary) Leaf Extract antioxidant, soothing, antimicrobial/antibacterial Helianthus Annuus Sunflower Seed Extract Hydrogenated Lecithin emollient, emulsifying Cetearyl Olivate emulsifying Sorbitan Olivate Behenyl Alcohol Arachidyl Glucoside emulsifying, surfactant/cleansing Propanediol solvent, moisturizer/humectant Butylene Glycol moisturizer/humectant, solvent 0, 1 Cetyl Alcohol 2, 2 Sodium Phytate chelating Sodium Citrate chelating, buffering Citric Acid buffering Sodium Metabisulfite antioxidant, preservative Phenoxyethanol preservative Caprylyl Glycol moisturizer/humectant, emollient Ethylhexylglycerin Hexylene Glycol solvent, emulsifying, perfuming, surfactant/cleansing 0-1, 0-2 Sodium Hydroxide 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 clear, colorless, almost odorless oil that spreads nicely and easily and gives a velvet dry skin feel. It is good friends with sunscreen agents and helps to solubilize them. Also, it makes sunscreens feel lighter and spread easier. 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 light, oily liquid (triglyceride of seven carbon length fatty acid, heptanoic acid) that works as a very high spreadability and low viscosity emollient making the skin nice and smooth. A form of skincare superstar, vitamin C. If you do not know why vitamin C is such a big deal in skincare, we have a really detailed, geeky description that's good to read. :) So now you know that because pure vitamin C is such a diva (very unstable and hard to formulate) the cosmetic industry is trying to come up with some derivatives that have the badass anti-aging properties of vitamin C (antioxidant protection + collagen boosting + fading hyperpigmentation) but without the disadvantages. This is a hard task, and there is not yet a derivative that is really proven to be better in every aspect, but Ascorbyl Glucoside is one of the best options when it comes to vitamin C derivatives. Let's see why: First, it's really stable and easy to formulate, so the problems that come with pure vitamin C are solved here. Second, in vitro (meaning made in the lab, not on real humans) studies show that ascorbyl glucoside can penetrate the skin. This is kind of important for an anti-aging ingredient to do the job, so this is good news, though in-vivo (made on real humans) studies are still needed. Third, in-vitro studies show that after ascorbyl glucoside is absorbed into the skin it is converted to pure vitamin C (though the rate of conversion is still a question mark). It also shows all the three anti-aging benefits (antioxidant protection + collagen boosting + fading hyperpigmentation) that pure vitamin C does. Bottom line: what‑it‑does skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. antioxidant | skin brightening emollient | viscosity controlling emollient | viscosity controlling | emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing solvent | emollient cell-communicating ingredient | moisturizer/humectant antioxidant | soothing | antimicrobial/antibacterial emollient | emulsifying emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing solvent | moisturizer/humectant moisturizer/humectant | solvent chelating | buffering antioxidant | preservative moisturizer/humectant | emollient solvent | emulsifying | perfuming | surfactant/cleansing