Q+A Vitamin C Eye Cream

Q+A Vitamin C Eye Cream Q+A Vitamin C Eye Cream ingredients explained: Aqua (Water), Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Propanediol, C14-22 Alcohols, Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Oil, Rhus Verniciflua (Japanese Sumac) Peel Cera, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter, Glycerin, Hydroxyethyl Acrylate/Sodium Acryloyldimethyl Taurate Copolymer, Volcanic Soil, Ascorbic Acid, Niacinamide, Glycogen, Hyaluronic Acid, Malpighia Emarginata (Acerola Cherry) Fruit Extract, Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Oil, Amylopectin, O-Cymen-5-Ol, Polysorbate 60, Sorbitan Isostearate, Glucose, Caprylyl Glycol, Xanthan Gum, C12-20 Alkyl Glucoside, 1,2-Hexanediol, Ethylhexylglycerin, Tocopherol, Citric Acid Show all ingredients by function Aqua (Water) solvent Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride emollient Propanediol solvent, moisturizer/​humectant C14-22 Alcohols Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Oil 0, 0-2 goodie Rhus Verniciflua (Japanese Sumac) Peel Cera Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Hydroxyethyl Acrylate/Sodium Acryloyldimethyl Taurate Copolymer viscosity controlling Volcanic Soil Ascorbic Acid antioxidant, skin brightening, buffering Niacinamide cell-communicating ingredient, skin brightening, anti-acne, moisturizer/​humectant Glycogen moisturizer/​humectant Hyaluronic Acid Malpighia Emarginata (Acerola Cherry) Fruit Extract Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Oil Amylopectin O-Cymen-5-Ol preservative, antimicrobial/​antibacterial Polysorbate 60 emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing Sorbitan Isostearate emulsifying 0, 1-2 Glucose Caprylyl Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, emollient Xanthan Gum C12-20 Alkyl Glucoside 1,2-Hexanediol Ethylhexylglycerin preservative Tocopherol antioxidant 0-3, 0-3 Citric Acid buffering 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 emollient that makes your skin feel nice and smooth. It comes from coconut oil and glycerin, it’s light-textured, clear, odorless and non-greasy. It’s a nice ingredient that just feels good on the skin, is super well tolerated by every skin type and easy to formulate with. No wonder it’s popular. 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 100% vegetable origin emulsifier that usually comes to the formula with its buddy called C12-20 Alkyl Glucoside. The duo is trade-named Montanov L and works as an effective oil in water emulsifier. It creates ultra-soft, light texture, has excellent dermo-compatibility and is readily biodegradable. Chemically speaking, it is a mixture of fatty alcohols with 14 to 22 carbon atoms in their fatty chains. Jojoba is a drought resistant evergreen shrub native to South-western North America. It's known and grown for jojoba oil, the golden yellow liquid coming from the seeds (about 50% of the weight of the seeds will be oil). At first glance, it seems like your average emollient plant oil: it looks like an oil and it's nourishing and moisturizing to the skin but if we dig a bit deeper, it turns out that jojoba oil is really special and unique: technically - or rather chemically - it's not an oil but a wax ester (and calling it an oil is kind of sloppy). So what the heck is a wax ester and why is that important anyway? Well, to understand what a wax ester is, you first have to know that oils are chemically triglycerides: one glycerin + three fatty acids attached to it. The fatty acids attached to the glycerin vary and thus we have many kinds of oils, but they are all triglycerides. Mother Nature created triglycerides to be easily hydrolyzed (be broken down to a glycerin + 3 fatty acid molecules) and oxidized (the fatty acid is broken down into small parts) - this happens basically when we eat fats or oils and our body generates energy from it. Mother Nature also created wax esters but for a totally different purpose. Chemically, a wax ester is a fatty acid + a fatty what‑it‑does solvent | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant antioxidant | skin brightening | buffering cell-communicating ingredient | skin brightening | anti-acne | moisturizer/humectant moisturizer/humectant preservative | antimicrobial/antibacterial emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing moisturizer/humectant | emollient

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