Pure Skin Formulations Bio-copper Serum

Pure Skin Formulations Bio-copper Serum Pure Skin Formulations Bio-copper Serum ingredients explained: Aqua (Distilled Water), Copper Tripeptide-1 (Copper Peptides/Ghk-Cu), Propylene Glycol, Sodium PCA, B-Glucaderm™ (Mushroom Beta Glucan), Phenoxyethanol, Inositol, Hydroxyethylcellulose Show all ingredients by function Aqua (Distilled Water) solvent Copper Tripeptide-1 (Copper Peptides/Ghk-Cu) cell-communicating ingredient, soothing, antioxidant goodie Propylene Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, solvent 0, 0 Sodium PCA skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant B-Glucaderm™ (Mushroom Beta Glucan) Phenoxyethanol preservative Inositol moisturizer/​humectant Hydroxyethylcellulose 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. GHK-Cu is a copper-peptide complex found naturally in yucky bodily fluids (plasma, saliva, and urine) It has unique wound healing properties by stimulating the breakdown of unhealthy, too large collagen in scar tissue and stimulating nice and healthy collagen production afterwards It stimulates the production of several important skin-identical ingredients (e.g. collagen, elastin, and glycosaminoglycans) It has significant anti-inflammatory and antioxidant effect There are a few promising studies showing GHK-Cu can improve skin elasticity, clarity, firmness and reduce lines and wrinkles It can improve hair growth by enlarging hair follicles (and bigger follicles produce longer, thicker hair) There are some urban legends about possible overdosing or facial hair problems (read more in geeky details) It's a helper ingredient that improves the freeze-thaw stability of products It's also a solvent, humectant and to some extent a penetration enhancer It has a bad reputation among natural cosmetics advocates but cosmetic scientists and toxicology experts do not agree (read more in the geeky details section) PCA stands for Pyrrolidone Carboxylic Acid and though it might not sound like it, it is a thing that can be found naturally in our skin. The sodium salt form of PCA is an important skin-identical ingredient and great natural moisturizer that helps the skin to hold onto water and stay nicely hydrated. This ingredient name is not according to the INCI-standard. :( What, why?! It’s pretty much the current IT-preservative. It’s safe and gentle, but even more importantly, it’s not a feared-by-everyone-mostly-without-scientific-reason paraben. It’s not something new: it was introduced around 1950 and today it can be used up to 1% worldwide. It can be found in nature - in green tea - but the version used in cosmetics is synthetic. Other than having a good safety profile and being quite gentle to the skin it has some other advantages too. It can be used in many types of formulations as it has great thermal stability (can be heated up to 85°C) and works on a wide range of pH levels (ph 3-10). It’s often used together with ethylhexylglycerin as it nicely improves the preservative activity of phenoxyethanol. We don't have description for this ingredient yet. A nice little helper ingredient that can thicken up cosm what‑it‑does cell-communicating ingredient | soothing | antioxidant moisturizer/humectant | solvent irritancy, com. skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant moisturizer/humectant

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