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The Inkey List Caffeine Eye Cream

The Inkey List Caffeine Eye Cream The Inkey List Caffeine Eye Cream ingredients explained: Water, Glycerin, Dicaprylyl Carbonate, Propanediol, Polyglyceryl-6 Distearate, Cetyl Alcohol, Hydroxyethyl Acrylate/Sodium Acryloyldimethyl Taurate Copolymer, Jojoba Est

The Inkey List Caffeine Eye Cream The Inkey List Caffeine Eye Cream ingredients explained: Water, Glycerin, Dicaprylyl Carbonate, Propanediol, Polyglyceryl-6 Distearate, Cetyl Alcohol, Hydroxyethyl Acrylate/Sodium Acryloyldimethyl Taurate Copolymer, Jojoba Esters, Glyceryl Dibehenate, Albizia Julibrissin Bark Extract, Squalane, Caffeine, Polyglyceryl-3 Beeswax, Phospholipids, Tribehenin, Ethylhexylglycerin, Xanthan Gum, Glycine Soja (Soybean) Extract, Polysorbate 60, Disodium EDTA, Glyceryl Behenate, Glycolipids, Butylene Glycol, Glycine Soja (Soybean) Sterols, Leuconostoc/Radish Root Ferment Filtrate, Hyaluronic Acid, Carbomer, Darutoside, Polysorbate 20, Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-7, Palmitoyl Tripeptide-1, Phenoxyethanol Show all ingredients by function Water solvent Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Dicaprylyl Carbonate emollient Propanediol solvent, moisturizer/​humectant Polyglyceryl-6 Distearate emulsifying Cetyl Alcohol emollient, viscosity controlling 2, 2 Hydroxyethyl Acrylate/Sodium Acryloyldimethyl Taurate Copolymer viscosity controlling Jojoba Esters soothing, emollient, moisturizer/​humectant Glyceryl Dibehenate Albizia Julibrissin Bark Extract goodie Squalane skin-identical ingredient, emollient 0, 1 Caffeine antioxidant, perfuming Polyglyceryl-3 Beeswax Phospholipids Tribehenin Ethylhexylglycerin preservative Xanthan Gum Glycine Soja (Soybean) Extract Polysorbate 60 emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing Disodium EDTA chelating Glyceryl Behenate emollient, emulsifying Glycolipids Butylene Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, solvent Glycine Soja (Soybean) Sterols Leuconostoc/Radish Root Ferment Filtrate antimicrobial/​antibacterial, preservative Hyaluronic Acid Carbomer Darutoside Polysorbate 20 Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-7 cell-communicating ingredient Palmitoyl Tripeptide-1 Phenoxyethanol 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 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. 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 so-called fatty (the good, non-drying kind of) alcohol that does all kinds of things in a skincare product: it makes your skin feel smooth and nice (emollient), helps to thicken up products and also helps water and oil to blend (emulsifier). Can be derived from coconut or palm kernel oil. This long-named, polymer molecule (big molecule from repeated subunits) is a helper ingredient that's good at emulsifying and stabilizing oils into water-based formulas. It also acts as a thickening and gelling agent that creates nice, non-sticky and supple textures. It works over a very wide pH range (3-12) and can be used to thicken up low-ph formulas, such as exfoliants. Its recommended used range is 0.3-3%. Jojoba-derived emollient wax esters (fatty acid + fatty alcohol) that make your skin feel nice and smooth. Chemically speaking, pure jojoba oil is also a wax ester (read our shiny explanation here), however, the ingredients called jojoba esters on the ingredient lists are made from jojoba oil and/or hydrogenated jojoba oil via interesterification. They have multiple versions with variable fatty acid chain length and the ingredient can have a liquid, a creamy, a soft or firm paste, or even a hard wax consistency. The c what‑it‑does skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. solvent | moisturizer/humectant emollient | viscosity controlling soothing | emollient | moisturizer/humectant skin-identical ingredient | emollient antioxidant | perfuming emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing emollient | emulsifying moisturizer/humectant | solvent antimicrobial/antibacterial | preservative

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