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Skin Biology 7% Ghk-cu Accelerant

Skin Biology 7% Ghk-cu Accelerant Skin Biology 7% Ghk-cu Accelerant ingredients explained: Purified Water, Copper Tripeptide-1 (Ghk-Cu), Phenoxyethanol Show all ingredients by function Purified Water solvent Copper Tripeptide-1 (Ghk-Cu) cell-communicating ingr

Skin Biology 7% Ghk-cu Accelerant Skin Biology 7% Ghk-cu Accelerant ingredients explained: Purified Water, Copper Tripeptide-1 (Ghk-Cu), Phenoxyethanol Show all ingredients by function Purified Water solvent Copper Tripeptide-1 (Ghk-Cu) cell-communicating ingredient, soothing, antioxidant goodie Phenoxyethanol preservative 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. GHK-Cu is a copper-peptide complex found naturally in yucky bodily fluids (plasma, saliva, and urine) It has unique wound healing properties by stimulating the breakdown of unhealthy, too large collagen in scar tissue and stimulating nice and healthy collagen production afterwards It stimulates the production of several important skin-identical ingredients (e.g. collagen, elastin, and glycosaminoglycans) It has significant anti-inflammatory and antioxidant effect There are a few promising studies showing GHK-Cu can improve skin elasticity, clarity, firmness and reduce lines and wrinkles It can improve hair growth by enlarging hair follicles (and bigger follicles produce longer, thicker hair) There are some urban legends about possible overdosing or facial hair problems (read more in geeky details) It’s pretty much the current IT-preservative. It’s safe and gentle, but even more importantly, it’s not a feared-by-everyone-mostly-without-scientific-reason paraben. It’s not something new: it was introduced around 1950 and today it can be used up to 1% worldwide. It can be found in nature - in green tea - but the version used in cosmetics is synthetic. Other than having a good safety profile and being quite gentle to the skin it has some other advantages too. It can be used in many types of formulations as it has great thermal stability (can be heated up to 85°C) and works on a wide range of pH levels (ph 3-10). It’s often used together with ethylhexylglycerin as it nicely improves the preservative activity of phenoxyethanol. what‑it‑does cell-communicating ingredient | soothing | antioxidant

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