Pearlessence Firming Eye Serum Caffeine Peptide

Pearlessence Firming Eye Serum Caffeine Peptide Pearlessence Firming Eye Serum Caffeine Peptide ingredients explained: Purified Water (Aqua), Glyceryl Stearate, Caffeine, Tetrapeptide-21, Panthenol (Vitamin B5), PEG-12 Dimethicone, Cetyl Alcohol, Carbomer, Aminomethyl Propanol, Phenoxyethanol, Dehydroacetic Acid, Benzyl Alcohol Show all ingredients by function Purified Water (Aqua) solvent Glyceryl Stearate emollient, emulsifying 0, 1 Caffeine antioxidant, perfuming goodie Tetrapeptide-21 cell-communicating ingredient Panthenol (Vitamin B5) soothing, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 PEG-12 Dimethicone Cetyl Alcohol emollient, viscosity controlling 2, 2 Carbomer viscosity controlling Aminomethyl Propanol buffering Phenoxyethanol preservative Dehydroacetic Acid Benzyl Alcohol preservative, perfuming, solvent, viscosity controlling 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 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". Hello, our favorite molecule that helps us wake up in the morning and then keeps us going through the day. As a super well-known stimulant from coffee, tea and plenty of other soft drinks, Caffeine needs no introduction. So we will skip right to the part where we talk about what the hell it does in so-so many cosmetic products. Looking at the research, we were surprised to find how versatile Caffeine is. It is a small, water-loving molecule with pretty good skin penetration abilties. Once in the skin, it has nice antioxidant properties, meaning that it reduces the formation of evil free radicals and it might even be useful in preventing UV-induced skin cancers. A well-known thing about Caffeine is that it improves the microcirculation of the blood vessels. Though conventional wisdom and anecdotal evidence says that this property is helpful for dark under-eye circles and puffy eyes, we have to mention that the double-blind research we have found about a 3% caffeine gel concluded that "the overall efficacy of the selected caffeine gel in reducing puffy eyes was not significantly different from that of its gel base." But you know, the proof is in the pudding. Another thing Caffeine is used for in body care products is its anti-cellulite effects. In theory, it can speed up the lipolysis process (the "fat burning" by our cells) and stimulate the draining lymph system that might lead to the improvement of cellulite. But here again, the evidence that it actually makes a measurable, let alone visible, improvement on actual human beings is limited (we could find only some animal skin studies or caffeine being combined with other actives). Last, but not least, we have to write about caffe what‑it‑does emollient | emulsifying irritancy, com. antioxidant | perfuming soothing | moisturizer/humectant emollient | viscosity controlling preservative | perfuming | solvent | viscosity controlling

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