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Skinbliss Wrinkle Smooth Serum – Anti-wrinkle Peptide
Skinbliss Wrinkle Smooth Serum – Anti-wrinkle Peptide Skinbliss Wrinkle Smooth Serum – Anti-wrinkle Peptide ingredients explained: Aqua, Pentylene Glycol, Coco-Caprylate, Lecithin, Tocopheryl Acetate, Sodium Polyacrylate, Acetyl Hexapeptide-8 Show all ingredie
Skinbliss Wrinkle Smooth Serum – Anti-wrinkle Peptide Skinbliss Wrinkle Smooth Serum – Anti-wrinkle Peptide ingredients explained: Aqua, Pentylene Glycol, Coco-Caprylate, Lecithin, Tocopheryl Acetate, Sodium Polyacrylate, Acetyl Hexapeptide-8 Show all ingredients by function Aqua solvent Pentylene Glycol solvent, moisturizer/humectant Coco-Caprylate emollient Lecithin emollient, emulsifying goodie Tocopheryl Acetate antioxidant 0, 0 Sodium Polyacrylate viscosity controlling Acetyl Hexapeptide-8 cell-communicating ingredient, moisturizer/humectant 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 multi-functional, silky feeling helper ingredient that can do quite many things. It's used as an emulsion stabilizer, solvent and a broad spectrum antimicrobial. According to manufacturer info, it's also a moisturizer and helps to make the product feel great on the skin. It works synergistically with preservatives and helps to improve water-resistance of sunscreens. A clear, colorless to slightly yellowish oil that makes the skin nice and smooth (emollient), spreads easily on the skin and is marketed as a good alternative to volatile (does not absorb into the skin but rather evaporates from it) silicones like Cyclomethicone. A very common ingredient that can be found in all cell membranes. In cosmetics it's quite the multi-tasker: it's an emollient and water-binding ingredient but it's also an emulsifier and can be used for stabilization purposes. It's also often used to create liposomes. It’s the most commonly used version of pure vitamin E in cosmetics. You can read all about the pure form here. This one is the so-called esterified version. According to famous dermatologist, Leslie Baumann while tocopheryl acetate is more stable and has a longer shelf life, it’s also more poorly absorbed by the skin and may not have the same awesome photoprotective effects as pure Vit E. 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. If you see a cosmetic product that claims that it has "Botox-like effect" then two things are almost certain: one, the product overpromises and two, it contains Argireline. So this one is the famous peptide that's marketed by its manufacturer as the "Botox in a jar". The basis for this claim is that it targets the same wrinkle forming mechanism (wrinkles caused by facial muscle movement) as Botox, but the way it works is very different. In addition, the extent to which it can prevent muscles from contracting (and to smooth wrinkles) is very different (otherwise why would anyone use still Botox?). The manufacturer did several studies to prove that Argireline really works what‑it‑does solvent | moisturizer/humectant emollient | emulsifying irritancy, com. cell-communicating ingredient | moisturizer/humectant