PLUM 2% Hyaluronic Acid Serum With Bulgarian Rose

PLUM 2% Hyaluronic Acid Serum With Bulgarian Rose PLUM 2% Hyaluronic Acid Serum With Bulgarian Rose ingredients explained: Aqua, Pentylene Glycol, Propanediol, Glycerin, Rosa Damascena (Rose) Flower Extract, Sucrose, Sorbitol, Sodium Hyaluronate*, Sodium Benzoate, Gluconolactone, Calcium Gluconate, Benzyl Alcohol, Hydroxyacetophenone, Caprylyl Glycol, Cyclodextrin, Sodium Gluconate, Sodium Polyacryloyldimethyl Taurate, Ammonium Acryloyldimethyltaurate/VP Copolymer Show all ingredients by function Aqua solvent Pentylene Glycol solvent, moisturizer/​humectant Propanediol Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Rosa Damascena (Rose) Flower Extract Sucrose moisturizer/​humectant, soothing goodie Sorbitol moisturizer/​humectant Sodium Hyaluronate* Sodium Benzoate preservative Gluconolactone exfoliant, chelating Calcium Gluconate Benzyl Alcohol preservative, perfuming, solvent, viscosity controlling Hydroxyacetophenone antioxidant, preservative Caprylyl Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, emollient Cyclodextrin chelating Sodium Gluconate chelating, moisturizer/​humectant Sodium Polyacryloyldimethyl Taurate viscosity controlling Ammonium Acryloyldimethyltaurate/VP Copolymer 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 multi-functional, silky feeling helper ingredient that can do quite many things. It's used as an emulsion stabilizer, solvent and a broad spectrum antimicrobial. According to manufacturer info, it's also a moisturizer and helps to make the product feel great on the skin. It works synergistically with preservatives and helps to improve water-resistance of sunscreens. Propanediol is a natural alternative for the often used and often bad-mouthed propylene glycol. It's produced sustainably from corn sugar and it's Ecocert approved. It's quite a multi-tasker: can be used to improve skin moisturization, as a solvent, to boost preservative efficacy or to influence the sensory properties of the end formula. 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 We don't have description for this ingredient yet. A type fo sugar, usually refined from cane or beet sugar. On the skin, it has water-binding properties and helps to keep your skin hydrated. It's a sweet tasting sugar substitute that helps your skin to hold onto water when used in cosmetic products. It also helps to thicken up products and give them a bit more slip. It’s the - sodium form - cousin of the famous NMF, hyaluronic acid (HA). If HA does not tell you anything we have a super detailed, geeky explanation about it here. The TL; DR version of HA is that it's a huge polymer (big molecule from repeated subunits) found in the skin that acts as a sponge helping the skin to hold onto water, being plump and elastic. HA is famous for its crazy water holding capacity as it can bind up to 1000 times its own weight in water. As far as skincare goes, sodium hyaluronate and hyaluronic acid are pretty much the same and the two names are used interchangeably. As cosmetic chemist kindofstephen writes on reddit "sodium hyaluronate disassociates into hyaluronic acid molecule and a sodium atom in solution". In spite of this, if you sear what‑it‑does solvent | moisturizer/humectant skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. moisturizer/humectant | soothing moisturizer/humectant exfoliant | chelating preservative | perfuming | solvent | viscosity controlling antioxidant | preservative moisturizer/humectant | emollient chelating | moisturizer/humectant

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