Skin Treat Bakuchiol + Peptide Face Elixir

Skin Treat Bakuchiol + Peptide Face Elixir Skin Treat Bakuchiol + Peptide Face Elixir ingredients explained: Aqua, Dicaprylyl Carbonate, Betaine, Propanediol, Sodium Polyacrylate, Bakuchiol, Acetyl Hexapeptide-8, Collagen, Phenoxyethanol, Glycerin, Sodium Acetylated Hyaluronate, Sodium Hyaluronate, Hydrolyzed Sodium Hyaluronate, Sodium Hyaluronate Crosspolymer, Tocopheryl Acetate, Brassica Campestris Seed Oil, Persea Gratissima Oil, Trisodium Ethylenediamine Disuccinate, Opuntia Ficus-Indica Flower Extract, Ethylhexylglycerin, Camelina Sativa Seed Oil, Leuconostoc/Radish Root Ferment Filtrate, Caprylyl Glycol, Pentylene Glycol, Citric Acid, Parfum Show all ingredients by function Aqua solvent Dicaprylyl Carbonate emollient Betaine moisturizer/​humectant goodie Propanediol solvent, moisturizer/​humectant Sodium Polyacrylate viscosity controlling Bakuchiol cell-communicating ingredient, antioxidant, antimicrobial/​antibacterial Acetyl Hexapeptide-8 cell-communicating ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant Collagen Phenoxyethanol preservative Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Sodium Acetylated Hyaluronate Sodium Hyaluronate Hydrolyzed Sodium Hyaluronate Sodium Hyaluronate Crosspolymer skin-identical ingredient, antioxidant, moisturizer/​humectant Tocopheryl Acetate antioxidant Brassica Campestris Seed Oil Persea Gratissima Oil antioxidant, emollient 0, 0-3 Trisodium Ethylenediamine Disuccinate chelating Opuntia Ficus-Indica Flower Extract Ethylhexylglycerin Camelina Sativa Seed Oil soothing, emollient Leuconostoc/Radish Root Ferment Filtrate antimicrobial/​antibacterial, preservative Caprylyl Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, emollient Pentylene Glycol Citric Acid buffering Parfum perfuming icky 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. A clear, colorless, almost odorless oil that spreads nicely and easily and gives a velvet dry skin feel. It is good friends with sunscreen agents and helps to solubilize them. Also, it makes sunscreens feel lighter and spread easier. A sugar beet-derived amino acid derivative with nice skin protection and moisturization properties. Betaine's special thing is being an osmolyte, a molecule that helps to control cell-water balance. It is also a natural osmoprotectant, meaning that it attracts water away from the protein surface and thus protects them from denaturation and increases their thermodynamic stability. It also gives sensorial benefits to the formula and when used in cleansers, it helps to make them milder and gentler. 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. A superabsorbent polymer (big molecule from repeated subunits) that has crazy water binding abilities. Sometimes its referred to as "waterlock" and can absorb 100 to 1000 times its mass in water. As for its use in cosmetic products, it is a handy multi-tasker that thickens up water-based formulas and also has some emulsifying and emulsion stabilizing properties. At first glance, you could think that Bakuchiol is your average plant extract. It is derived from the seeds of Psoralea Corylifolia, aka Babchi, a plant important in Indian and Chinese medicine. The molecule was first isolated in 1973 and several anti-something properties are known about it: it has anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, anti-tumor, anti-bacterial and hepatoprotective magical abilities like plenty of other Ayurvedic plant extracts. What makes Bakuchiol a special snowflake is the recent discovery that it behaves on the skin in a way very similar to well-known skincare superstar, retinol. While chemically, it has nothing to do with the vitamin-A family, aka retinoids, comparative gene expression profiling (a fancy way of saying that they compared how retinol and bakuchiol modify the way skin cells behave and produce important skin proteins such as collagen) shows that retinol and what‑it‑does moisturizer/humectant solvent | moisturizer/humectant cell-communicating ingredient | antioxidant | antimicrobial/antibacterial cell-communicating ingredient | moisturizer/humectant skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. skin-identical ingredient | antioxidant | moisturizer/humectant antioxidant | emollient soothing | emollient antimicrobial/antibacterial | preservative moisturizer/humectant | emollient

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