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SolaWave Plumping Peptide Serum

SolaWave Plumping Peptide Serum SolaWave Plumping Peptide Serum ingredients explained: Water/Aqua/Eau, Propanediol, Lactobacillus Ferment Lysate, Pentylene Glycol, 1,2-Hexanediol, Glycerin, Beta-Glucan, Sparassis Crispa Extract, Persea Gratissima (Avocado) Fru

SolaWave Plumping Peptide Serum SolaWave Plumping Peptide Serum ingredients explained: Water/Aqua/Eau, Propanediol, Lactobacillus Ferment Lysate, Pentylene Glycol, 1,2-Hexanediol, Glycerin, Beta-Glucan, Sparassis Crispa Extract, Persea Gratissima (Avocado) Fruit Extract, Palmitoyl Pentapeptide-4, Sodium Hyaluronate, Hydrolyzed Hyaluronic Acid, Hyaluronic Acid, Polyglutamic Acid, Panthenol, Xanthan Gum, Carbomer, Butylene Glycol, Tromethamine, Ethylhexylglycerin, Maltodextrin, Tocopherol, Caprylyl Glycol Show all ingredients by function Water/Aqua/Eau solvent Propanediol solvent, moisturizer/​humectant Lactobacillus Ferment Lysate Pentylene Glycol 1,2-Hexanediol Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Beta-Glucan soothing, moisturizer/​humectant goodie Sparassis Crispa Extract moisturizer/​humectant Persea Gratissima (Avocado) Fruit Extract soothing, emollient, moisturizer/​humectant Palmitoyl Pentapeptide-4 cell-communicating ingredient Sodium Hyaluronate Hydrolyzed Hyaluronic Acid Hyaluronic Acid Polyglutamic Acid Panthenol Xanthan Gum viscosity controlling Carbomer 0, 1 Butylene Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, solvent Tromethamine buffering Ethylhexylglycerin preservative Maltodextrin Tocopherol antioxidant 0-3, 0-3 Caprylyl Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, emollient 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. 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. We don't have description for this ingredient yet. 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 really multi-functional helper ingredient that can do several things in a skincare product: it can bring a soft and pleasant feel to the formula, it can act as a humectant and emollient, it can be a solvent for some other ingredients (for example it can help to stabilize perfumes in watery products) and it can also help to disperse pigments more evenly in makeup products. And that is still not all: it can also boost the antimicrobial activity of preservatives. 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 Beta-Glucan is a nice big molecule composed of many smaller sugar molecules (called polysaccharide). It’s in the cell walls of yeast, some mushrooms, seaweeds, and cereals. It’s a real goodie no matter if you eat it or put it on your face. Eating it is anti-diabetic, anti-cancer, and even lowers blood cholesterol. Putting it on your face also does a bunch of good things: it‘s shown to have intensive skin repairing & wound healing properties, it’s a mild antioxidant, a great skin soother, and moisturizer, and it even shows promising anti-aging benefits. The manufacturer of the ingredient did a published study with 27 pe what‑it‑does solvent | moisturizer/humectant skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. soothing | moisturizer/humectant moisturizer/humectant soothing | emollient | moisturizer/humectant moisturizer/humectant | solvent moisturizer/humectant | emollient

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