Skin Republic Multi-peptide Ceramide Serum

Skin Republic Multi-peptide Ceramide Serum Skin Republic Multi-peptide Ceramide Serum ingredients explained: Aqua/Water/Eau, Propylene Glycol, Phenoxyethanol, Xanthan Gum, Glycerin, PPG-1-PEG-9 Lauryl Glycol Ether, Butylene Glycol, Sodium Lauroyl Lactylate, Ethylhexylglycerin, Carbomer, Ceramide NP, Sodium Lactate, Ceramide AP, Cholesterol, Phytosphingosine, Caprylyl Glycol, Polysorbate 20, Acetyl Hexapeptide-8, Palmitoyl Tripeptide-1, Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-7, Ceramide EOP Show all ingredients by function Aqua/Water/Eau solvent Propylene Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, solvent 0, 0 Phenoxyethanol preservative Xanthan Gum viscosity controlling Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant superstar PPG-1-PEG-9 Lauryl Glycol Ether emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing Butylene Glycol 0, 1 Sodium Lauroyl Lactylate emulsifying Ethylhexylglycerin Carbomer Ceramide NP skin-identical ingredient goodie Sodium Lactate buffering, moisturizer/​humectant Ceramide AP Cholesterol skin-identical ingredient, emollient Phytosphingosine skin-identical ingredient, cell-communicating ingredient, anti-acne, antimicrobial/​antibacterial Caprylyl Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, emollient Polysorbate 20 Acetyl Hexapeptide-8 cell-communicating ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant Palmitoyl Tripeptide-1 cell-communicating ingredient Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-7 Ceramide EOP 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) 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. It's one of the most commonly used thickeners and emulsion stabilizers. If the product is too runny, a little xanthan gum will make it more gel-like. Used alone, it can make the formula sticky and it is a good team player so it is usually combined with other thickeners and so-called rheology modifiers (helper ingredients that adjust the flow and thus the feel of the formula). The typical use level of Xantha Gum is below 1%, it is usually in the 0.1-0.5% range. Btw, Xanthan gum is all natural, a chain of sugar molecules (polysaccharide) produced from individual sugar molecules (glucose and sucrose) via fermentation. It’s approved by Ecocert and also used in the food industry (E415). 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 We don't have description for this ingredient yet. Butylene glycol, or let’s just call it BG, is a multi-tasking colo what‑it‑does moisturizer/humectant | solvent irritancy, com. skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing buffering | moisturizer/humectant skin-identical ingredient | emollient skin-identical ingredient | cell-communicating ingredient | anti-acne | antimicrobial/antibacterial moisturizer/humectant | emollient cell-communicating ingredient | moisturizer/humectant

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