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Seca Anti Aging Collagen 1% + Peptide Serum

Seca Anti Aging Collagen 1% + Peptide Serum Seca Anti Aging Collagen 1% + Peptide Serum ingredients explained: Water, Centella Asiatica Leaf Water, Butylene Glycol, Methylpropanediol, Glycerin, Pentylene Glycol, 1,2-Hexanediol, Collagen Extract, Ammonium Acryl

Seca Anti Aging Collagen 1% + Peptide Serum Seca Anti Aging Collagen 1% + Peptide Serum ingredients explained: Water, Centella Asiatica Leaf Water, Butylene Glycol, Methylpropanediol, Glycerin, Pentylene Glycol, 1,2-Hexanediol, Collagen Extract, Ammonium Acryloyldimethyltaurate/VP Copolymer, Xanthan Gum, Ethylhexylglycerin, Dipeptide Diaminobutyroyl Benzylamide Diacetate, Phenoxyethanol Show all ingredients by function Water solvent Centella Asiatica Leaf Water Butylene Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, solvent 0, 1 Methylpropanediol Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Pentylene Glycol solvent, moisturizer/​humectant 1,2-Hexanediol Collagen Extract Ammonium Acryloyldimethyltaurate/VP Copolymer viscosity controlling Xanthan Gum Ethylhexylglycerin preservative Dipeptide Diaminobutyroyl Benzylamide Diacetate cell-communicating ingredient goodie Phenoxyethanol 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. We don't have description for this ingredient yet. 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 type of glycol that - according to the manufacturer - is an extremely good replacement for other glycols like propylene or butylene glycol. Its main job is to be a solvent, but it has also very good antimicrobial properties and acts as a true preservative booster. Also helps with skin hydration without stickiness or tacky feel. 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 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. A really multi-functional helper ingredient that can do several things in a skincare product: it can bring a soft and pleasant feel to the formula, it can act as a humectant and emollient, it can be a solvent for some other ingredients (for example it can help to stabilize perfumes in watery products) and it can also help to disperse pigments more evenly in makeup products. And that is still not all: it can also boost the antimicrobial activity o what‑it‑does moisturizer/humectant | solvent irritancy, com. skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant solvent | moisturizer/humectant

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