Swanson Hyaluronic Acid Serum

Swanson Hyaluronic Acid Serum Swanson Hyaluronic Acid Serum ingredients explained: Purified (Deionized) Water, Vegetable Glycerin, Aloe Barbadensis (Aloe Vera) Leaf Gel, Sodium Hyaluronate (3%), Xanthan Gum, Chamomilla Recutita (Chamomile) Flower Extract, Phenoxyethanol, Origanum Vulgare (Oregano) Leaf Extract, Thymus Vulgaris (Thyme) Leaf Extract, Cinnamomum Zeylanicum (Cinnamon) Bark Extract, Rosmarinus Officinalis (Rosemary) Leaf Extract, Lavandula Angustifolia (Lavender) Flower Extract, Citrus Medica Limonum (Lemon) Peel Extract, Mentha Piperita (Peppermint) Leaf Extract, Hydrastis Canadensis (Goldenseal) Root Extract, Olea Europaea (Olive) Leaf Extract Show all ingredients by function Purified (Deionized) Water solvent Vegetable Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Aloe Barbadensis (Aloe Vera) Leaf Gel soothing, moisturizer/​humectant goodie Sodium Hyaluronate (3%) Xanthan Gum viscosity controlling Chamomilla Recutita (Chamomile) Flower Extract soothing, antioxidant Phenoxyethanol preservative Origanum Vulgare (Oregano) Leaf Extract Thymus Vulgaris (Thyme) Leaf Extract Cinnamomum Zeylanicum (Cinnamon) Bark Extract antimicrobial/​antibacterial, antioxidant, emollient, moisturizer/​humectant, perfuming Rosmarinus Officinalis (Rosemary) Leaf Extract antioxidant, soothing, antimicrobial/​antibacterial Lavandula Angustifolia (Lavender) Flower Extract surfactant/​cleansing Citrus Medica Limonum (Lemon) Peel Extract Mentha Piperita (Peppermint) Leaf Extract Hydrastis Canadensis (Goldenseal) Root Extract Olea Europaea (Olive) Leaf Extract perfuming 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 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 Aloe Vera is one of today’s magic plants. It does have some very nice properties indeed, though famous dermatologist Leslie Baumann warns us in her book that most of the evidence is anecdotal and the plant might be a bit overhyped. What research does confirm about Aloe is that it’s a great moisturizer and has several anti-inflammatory (among others contains salicylates, polysaccharides, magnesium lactate and C-glucosyl chromone) as well as some antibacterial components. It also helps wound healing and skin regeneration in general. All in all definitely a goodie. It’s the - sodium form - cousin of the famous NMF, hyaluronic acid (HA). If HA does not tell you anything we have a super detailed, geeky explanation about it here. The TL; DR version of HA is that it's a huge polymer (big molecule from repeated subunits) found in the skin that acts as a sponge helping the skin to hold onto water, being plump and elastic. HA is famous for its crazy water holding capacity as it can bind up to 1000 times its own weight in water. As far as skincare goes, sodium hyaluronate and hyaluronic acid are pretty much the same and the two names are used interchangeably. As cosmetic chemist kindofstephen writes on reddit "sodium hyaluronate disassociates into hyaluronic acid molecule and a sodium atom in solution". In spite of this, if you search for "hyaluronic acid vs sodium hyaluronate" you will find on multiple places that sodium hyaluronate is smaller and can penetrate the skin better. Chemically, this is definitely not true, as the two forms are almost the same, both are polymers and the subunits can be repeated in both forms as much as you like. (We also checked Prospector for sodium hyaluronate versions actually used in cosmetic products and found that the most common molecular weight was 1.5-1.8 million Da that absolutely counts as high what‑it‑does skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. soothing | moisturizer/humectant soothing | antioxidant antimicrobial/antibacterial | antioxidant | emollient | moisturizer/humectant | perfuming antioxidant | soothing | antimicrobial/antibacterial surfactant/cleansing

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