Skin Generics Hyaluronic Acid Serum

Skin Generics Hyaluronic Acid Serum Skin Generics Hyaluronic Acid Serum ingredients explained: Aqua (Water), Aloe Barbadensis (Vera) Leaf Extract, Glycerin, Propanediol, Phenoxyethanol, Cellulose Gum, Sodium Hyaluronate, Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer, Algae Extract, Disodium EDTA, Ethylhexylglycerin, Citric Acid, Sodium Hydroxide, Caprylyl Glycol, 1,2-Hexanediol, Sodium Benzoate, Sodium Citrate, Soluble Collagen, Chlorphenesin, Propylene Glycol, Potassium Sorbate, Sodium Sulfite, Sodium Dehydroacetate Show all ingredients by function Aqua (Water) solvent Aloe Barbadensis (Vera) Leaf Extract soothing, emollient, moisturizer/​humectant goodie Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Propanediol solvent, moisturizer/​humectant Phenoxyethanol preservative Cellulose Gum viscosity controlling Sodium Hyaluronate Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer Algae Extract emollient, moisturizer/​humectant Disodium EDTA chelating Ethylhexylglycerin Citric Acid buffering Sodium Hydroxide Caprylyl Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, emollient 1,2-Hexanediol Sodium Benzoate Sodium Citrate chelating, buffering Soluble Collagen moisturizer/​humectant Chlorphenesin preservative, antimicrobial/​antibacterial Propylene Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, solvent Potassium Sorbate Sodium Sulfite Sodium Dehydroacetate 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. The extract coming from the juice containing leaves of the Aloe vera plant. It's usually a hydroglycolic extract (though oil extract for the lipid parts also exists) that has similar moisturizing, emollient and anti-inflammatory properties as the juice itself. We have written some more about aloe here. 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 Propanediol is a natural alternative for the often used and often bad-mouthed propylene glycol. It's produced sustainably from corn sugar and it's Ecocert approved. It's quite a multi-tasker: can be used to improve skin moisturization, as a solvent, to boost preservative efficacy or to influence the sensory properties of the end formula. 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. A cellulose (the big molecule found in the cell wall of green plants) derivative that is used as an emulsion stabilizer and thickener. It’s the - sodium form - cousin of the famous NMF, hyaluronic acid (HA). If HA does not tell you anything we have a super detailed, geeky explanation about it here. The TL; DR version of HA is that it's a huge polymer (big molecule from repeated subunits) found in the skin that acts as a sponge helping the skin to hold onto water, being what‑it‑does soothing | emollient | moisturizer/humectant skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. solvent | moisturizer/humectant emollient | moisturizer/humectant moisturizer/humectant | emollient chelating | buffering moisturizer/humectant preservative | antimicrobial/antibacterial moisturizer/humectant | solvent

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