Simplified Skin Hyaluronic Acid Serum

Simplified Skin Hyaluronic Acid Serum Simplified Skin Hyaluronic Acid Serum ingredients explained: Water, Propylene Glycol, Vegetable Glycerin, Carbomer, Jojoba Oil, Witch Hazel, Tocopheryl Acetate (Vitamin E), Triethanolamine, Botanical Hyaluronic Acid, Aloe Vera, Sodium Ascorbyl Phosphate (Vitamin C), Wildcrafted Green Tea, Geranium Essential Oil, MSM, Phenoxyethanol, Sorbic Acid, Caprylyl Glycol Show all ingredients by function Water solvent Propylene Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, solvent 0, 0 Vegetable Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant superstar Carbomer viscosity controlling 0, 1 Jojoba Oil emollient 0, 0-2 goodie Witch Hazel soothing, antioxidant, antimicrobial/​antibacterial Tocopheryl Acetate (Vitamin E) antioxidant Triethanolamine buffering 0, 2 Botanical Hyaluronic Acid Aloe Vera soothing, moisturizer/​humectant Sodium Ascorbyl Phosphate (Vitamin C) antioxidant, anti-acne Wildcrafted Green Tea antioxidant, soothing Geranium Essential Oil perfuming icky MSM Phenoxyethanol preservative Sorbic Acid Caprylyl Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, emollient 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. 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) 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 big molecule created from repeated subunits (a polymer of acrylic acid) that magically converts a liquid into a nice gel formula. It usually has to be neutralized with a base (such as sodium hydroxide) for the thickening to occur and it creates viscous, clear gels that also feel nice and non-tacky on the skin. No wonder, it is a very popular and common ingredient. Typically used at 1% or less in most formulations. 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 b what‑it‑does moisturizer/humectant | solvent irritancy, com. skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant soothing | antioxidant | antimicrobial/antibacterial soothing | moisturizer/humectant antioxidant | anti-acne antioxidant | soothing moisturizer/humectant | emollient

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