Provence Beauty Retinol Firming Facial Serum

Provence Beauty Retinol Firming Facial Serum Provence Beauty Retinol Firming Facial Serum ingredients explained: Deionized Water (Aqua/Eau), Glycerin, Heptapeptide-7, Retinol, Carnosine, Retinol, Lavandula Angustifolia (Lavender) Extract, Cucumis Sativus (Cucumber) Extract, Camellia Sinensis (Green Tea) Extract, Vitis Vinifera (Grape) Seed Oil, Sorbitol, Propanediol, Lecithin, Xanthan Gum, Polysorbate 20, Glycine Soja (Soybean) Oil, Phenoxyethanol, Ethylhexylglycerin, Citric Acid, Sodium Benzoate, Potassium Sorbate, Carbomer, Essential Oils Show all ingredients by function Deionized Water (Aqua/Eau) solvent Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Heptapeptide-7 Retinol cell-communicating ingredient Carnosine antioxidant, cell-communicating ingredient goodie Lavandula Angustifolia (Lavender) Extract Cucumis Sativus (Cucumber) Extract soothing, emollient Camellia Sinensis (Green Tea) Extract antioxidant, soothing Vitis Vinifera (Grape) Seed Oil antioxidant, emollient Sorbitol moisturizer/​humectant Propanediol solvent, moisturizer/​humectant Lecithin emollient, emulsifying Xanthan Gum viscosity controlling Polysorbate 20 emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing Glycine Soja (Soybean) Oil emollient, perfuming 0, 3 Phenoxyethanol preservative Ethylhexylglycerin Citric Acid buffering Sodium Benzoate Potassium Sorbate Carbomer 0, 1 Essential Oils 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 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. Retinol (pure Vitamin A) is probably the most proven anti-aging ingredient available OTC It has to be converted in the skin to retinoic acid to work its magic Once converted, it has the same effect as all-trans-retinoic acid, aka tretinoin A generally accepted ballpark number is that retinol is 10-to-20 times less potent than retinoic acid It makes skin less wrinkled, smoother, firmer and tighter It might also be helpful for acne prone skin as it normalizes keratinization and makes the pores produce less sebum Possible side effects and irritation are also much less than with retinoic acid Do not use whilst pregnant Though its name does not reveal it, Carnosine is a peptide, a small, two amino acid (β-Ala-His) one. It is naturally present in high concentrations in muscle and brain tissues, but the one used in cosmetic products is biomimetic, meaning that it is synthetically produced in a lab to copy the natural thing. A 2017 review paper on topical peptides writes about Carnosine that it is a "well-documented aqueous antioxidant with wound healing activity". Other than that we can write about manufacturer-done in-vitro (in the lab, not on real people) studies that show Carnosine to have anti-glycation properties. Glycation is the not-so-nice process that happens when we bombard our body with too much sugar that results in damaged body proteins and eventually in more wrinkles. Also, a manufacturer done in vitro study shows that carnosine might have collagen-boosing magic power. However, the 2017 research paper also mentions that even though Carnosine is a small molecule, it is water soluble and does not penetrate the skin past the top layers so we have some doubt if the collagen-boosting works in real life. We could find one anti-aging study made on real people that mentions what‑it‑does skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. antioxidant | cell-communicating ingredient soothing | emollient antioxidant | soothing antioxidant | emollient moisturizer/humectant solvent | moisturizer/humectant emollient | emulsifying emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing emollient | perfuming

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