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Royal Beauty Collagen Serum+vitamin C

Royal Beauty Collagen Serum+vitamin C Royal Beauty Collagen Serum+vitamin C ingredients explained: Aqua, Butylene Glycol, Sorbitol, Niacinamide, Centella Asiatica Extract, Carbomer, Magnesium Ascorbyl Phosphate, Tranexamic Acid, Psidium Guajava Fruit Extract,

Royal Beauty Collagen Serum+vitamin C Royal Beauty Collagen Serum+vitamin C ingredients explained: Aqua, Butylene Glycol, Sorbitol, Niacinamide, Centella Asiatica Extract, Carbomer, Magnesium Ascorbyl Phosphate, Tranexamic Acid, Psidium Guajava Fruit Extract, Hyaluronic Acid, Collagen, Alpha-Arbutin, Polysorbate 20, Triethanolamine, EDTA, Benzisothiazolinone, Polyquaternium-11, Fragrance, Ethylhexylglycerin, Ci 45370 Show all ingredients by function Aqua solvent Butylene Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, solvent 0, 1 Sorbitol moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 Niacinamide cell-communicating ingredient, skin brightening, anti-acne, moisturizer/​humectant superstar Centella Asiatica Extract soothing, antioxidant, moisturizer/​humectant goodie Carbomer viscosity controlling Magnesium Ascorbyl Phosphate skin brightening, antioxidant Tranexamic Acid skin brightening, soothing Psidium Guajava Fruit Extract Hyaluronic Acid skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant Collagen Alpha-Arbutin antioxidant, skin brightening Polysorbate 20 emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing Triethanolamine buffering 0, 2 EDTA chelating Benzisothiazolinone antimicrobial/​antibacterial Polyquaternium-11 Fragrance perfuming icky Ethylhexylglycerin preservative Ci 45370 colorant 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. Butylene glycol, or let’s just call it BG, is a multi-tasking colorless, syrupy liquid. It’s a great pick for creating a nice feeling product. BG’s main job is usually to be a solvent for the other ingredients. Other tasks include helping the product to absorb faster and deeper into the skin (penetration enhancer), making the product spread nicely over the skin (slip agent), and attracting water (humectant) into the skin. It’s an ingredient whose safety hasn’t been questioned so far by anyone (at least not that we know about). BG is approved by Ecocert and is also used enthusiastically in natural products. BTW, it’s also a food additive. 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. A multi-functional skincare superstar with several proven benefits for the skin Great anti-aging, wrinkle smoothing ingredient used at 4-5% concentration Fades brown spots alone or in combination with amino sugar, acetyl glucosamine Increases ceramide synthesis that results in a stronger, healthier skin barrier and better skin hydration Can help to improve several skin conditions including acne, rosacea, and atopic dermatitis Centella Asiatica - or sometimes also called Gotu Kola or Cica - has been used in folk medicine for hundreds of years. It’s traditionally used to improve small wounds, burns and scratches and it’s also a well known anti-inflammatory agent for eczema. Recently science has taken an interest in Gotu Kola as well and it turns out it really has many active compounds with several benefits. Just for hard-core geeks, the main biologically active compounds are pentacyclic triterpenoid saponins called asiaticoside, madecassoside, asiatic and madecassic acid (also called centellosides). One of the biological activities of the centellosides is to be able to stimulate GAGs (glycosaminoglycans - polysaccharides that are part of the liquidy stuff between our skin cells), and especially hyaluronic acid synthesis in our skin. This is probably one of the reasons why Centella Asiatica Extract has nice skin moisturizing properties that was confirmed by a 25 people, four weeks study along with Centella's anti-inflammatory effects. Madecassoside can also help in burn wound healing through in what‑it‑does moisturizer/humectant | solvent irritancy, com. moisturizer/humectant cell-communicating ingredient | skin brightening | anti-acne | moisturizer/humectant soothing | antioxidant | moisturizer/humectant skin brightening | antioxidant skin brightening | soothing skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant antioxidant | skin brightening emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing antimicrobial/antibacterial

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