Skoah. +Copper Peptide

Skoah. +Copper Peptide Skoah. +Copper Peptide ingredients explained: Aqua, Butylene Glycol, Sodium Polyacrylate, Copper Tripeptide-1, Panthenol, Disodium Lauriminodipropionate Tocopheryl Phosphates, Caprylyl Glycol, Cyclopentasiloxane, Dimethicone, Allantoin, Ethylhexyl Glycerine, Phenoxyethanol, Sodium Citrate, Citric Acid, Sodium Hydroxide Show all ingredients by function Aqua solvent Butylene Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, solvent 0, 1 Sodium Polyacrylate viscosity controlling Copper Tripeptide-1 cell-communicating ingredient, soothing, antioxidant goodie Panthenol soothing, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 Disodium Lauriminodipropionate Tocopheryl Phosphates soothing, surfactant/​cleansing Caprylyl Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, emollient Cyclopentasiloxane emollient, solvent Dimethicone emollient Allantoin soothing Ethylhexyl Glycerine preservative Phenoxyethanol Sodium Citrate chelating, buffering Citric Acid buffering Sodium Hydroxide 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. Butylene glycol, or let’s just call it BG, is a multi-tasking colorless, syrupy liquid. It’s a great pick for creating a nice feeling product. BG’s main job is usually to be a solvent for the other ingredients. Other tasks include helping the product to absorb faster and deeper into the skin (penetration enhancer), making the product spread nicely over the skin (slip agent), and attracting water (humectant) into the skin. It’s an ingredient whose safety hasn’t been questioned so far by anyone (at least not that we know about). BG is approved by Ecocert and is also used enthusiastically in natural products. BTW, it’s also a food additive. 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. 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) An easy-to-formulate, commonly used, nice to have ingredient that’s also called pro-vitamin B5. As you might guess from the “pro” part, it’s a precursor to vitamin B5 (whose fancy name is pantothenic acid). Its main job in skincare products is to moisturise the skin. It’s a humectant meaning that it can help the skin to attract water and then hold onto it. There is also research showing that panthenol can help our skin to produce more lovely lipids that are important for a strong and healthy skin barrier. Another g what‑it‑does moisturizer/humectant | solvent irritancy, com. cell-communicating ingredient | soothing | antioxidant soothing | moisturizer/humectant soothing | surfactant/cleansing moisturizer/humectant | emollient emollient | solvent chelating | buffering

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