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Skin Alchemy Amino Peptide Serum
Skin Alchemy Amino Peptide Serum Skin Alchemy Amino Peptide Serum ingredients explained: Aqua, Butylene Glycol, Glycerin, Squalane, Panthenol, Ectoin, Niacinamide, Trehalose, Propolis Extract, Tremella Fuciformis Polysaccharide, Sodium Acrylates Copolymer, Phe
Skin Alchemy Amino Peptide Serum Skin Alchemy Amino Peptide Serum ingredients explained: Aqua, Butylene Glycol, Glycerin, Squalane, Panthenol, Ectoin, Niacinamide, Trehalose, Propolis Extract, Tremella Fuciformis Polysaccharide, Sodium Acrylates Copolymer, Phenoxyethanol, Citric Acid, Allantoin, 1,2-Hexanediol, Lecithin, Tocopherol, Sodium Hyaluronate, Sodium Lauroyl Lactylate, Musa Sapientum Extract, Phaseolus Radiatus Seed Extract, Canavalia Gladiata Seed Extract, Glycine Soja Seed Extract, Lens Esculenta Seed Extract, Ceratonia Siliqua Seed Extract, Pueraria Lobata Root Extract, Lactobacillus Ferment Lysate, Glycine, Copper Tripeptide-1, Ceramide NP, Ceramide AP, Ceramide EOP, Serine, Glutamic Acid, Phytosphingosine, Potassium Hyaluronate, Sodium Hyaluronate Crosspolymer, Sodium Acetylated Hyaluronate, Hydroxypropyltrimonium Hyaluronate, Hydrolyzed Hyaluronic Acid, Hyaluronic Acid, Hydrolyzed Sodium Hyaluronate, Cholesterol, Glycolic Acid, Aspartic Acid, Leucine, Pentylene Glycol, Polyglutamic Acid, Levan, Alanine, Show all ingredients by function Aqua solvent Butylene Glycol moisturizer/humectant, solvent 0, 1 Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/humectant 0, 0 superstar Squalane skin-identical ingredient, emollient goodie Panthenol soothing, moisturizer/humectant Ectoin antioxidant, soothing, moisturizer/humectant Niacinamide cell-communicating ingredient, skin brightening, anti-acne, moisturizer/humectant Trehalose moisturizer/humectant Propolis Extract Tremella Fuciformis Polysaccharide Sodium Acrylates Copolymer viscosity controlling Phenoxyethanol preservative Citric Acid buffering Allantoin soothing 1,2-Hexanediol Lecithin emollient, emulsifying Tocopherol antioxidant 0-3, 0-3 Sodium Hyaluronate Sodium Lauroyl Lactylate emulsifying Musa Sapientum Extract Phaseolus Radiatus Seed Extract Canavalia Gladiata Seed Extract Glycine Soja Seed Extract antioxidant, skin brightening, soothing, emollient Lens Esculenta Seed Extract Ceratonia Siliqua Seed Extract Pueraria Lobata Root Extract Lactobacillus Ferment Lysate Glycine skin-identical ingredient Copper Tripeptide-1 cell-communicating ingredient, soothing, antioxidant Ceramide NP Ceramide AP Ceramide EOP Serine Glutamic Acid Phytosphingosine skin-identical ingredient, cell-communicating ingredient, anti-acne, antimicrobial/antibacterial Potassium Hyaluronate Sodium Hyaluronate Crosspolymer skin-identical ingredient, antioxidant, moisturizer/humectant Sodium Acetylated Hyaluronate Hydroxypropyltrimonium Hyaluronate Hydrolyzed Hyaluronic Acid Hyaluronic Acid Hydrolyzed Sodium Hyaluronate Cholesterol Glycolic Acid exfoliant, buffering Aspartic Acid Leucine Pentylene Glycol solvent, moisturizer/humectant Polyglutamic Acid Levan Alanine Lysine Sodium Polyglutamate Acetyl Glucosamine skin-identical ingredient, skin brightening Arginine Tyrosine Phenylalanine Threonine Proline Valine Isoleucine Decapeptide-12 skin brightening Histidine Ethylhexylglycerin Trisodium Ethylenediamine Disuccinate chelating Xanthan Gum Natto Gum Methylparaben Carbomer Ethylparaben 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. 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 It seems to us that squalane is in fashion and there is a reason for it. Chemically speaking, it is a saturated (no double bonds) hydrocarbon (a molecule consisting only of carbon and hydrogen), meaning that it's a nice and stable oily liquid with a long shelf life. It occurs naturally in certain fish and plant oils (e.g. olive), and in the sebum (the oily stuff our skin produces) of the human skin. As f.c. puts it in his awesome blog post, squalane's main things are "emolliency, surface occlusion, and TEWL prevention all with extreme cosmetic elegance". In other words, it's a superb moisturizer that makes your skin nice and smooth, without being heavy or greasy. Another advantage of squalane is that it is pretty much compatible with all skin types and skin conditions. It is excellent for acne-prone skin and safe to use even if you have fungi-related skin issues, like seborrhea or fungal acne. The unsaturated (with double bonds) and hence less stable version of Squalane is Squalene, you can read about it here >> An easy-to-formulate, commonly used, nice to have ingredient that’s also called pro-vitamin B5. As you might guess from the “pro” part, it’s a precursor to vitamin B5 (whose fancy n what‑it‑does moisturizer/humectant | solvent irritancy, com. skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant skin-identical ingredient | emollient soothing | moisturizer/humectant antioxidant | soothing | moisturizer/humectant cell-communicating ingredient | skin brightening | anti-acne | moisturizer/humectant moisturizer/humectant emollient | emulsifying antioxidant | skin brightening | soothing | emollient cell-communicating ingredient | soothing | antioxidant skin-identical ingredient | cell-communicating ingredient | anti-acne | antimicrobial/antibacterial skin-identical ingredient | antioxidant | moisturizer/humectant exfoliant | buffering solvent | moisturizer/humectant skin-identical ingredient | skin brightening