The Inkey List Chia Seed Curl Defining Hair Treatment

The Inkey List Chia Seed Curl Defining Hair Treatment The Inkey List Chia Seed Curl Defining Hair Treatment ingredients explained: Water (Aqua/Eau), C15-19 Alkane, Glyceryl Stearate, Cetyl Alcohol, Salvia Hispanica Seed Extract, PEG-100 Stearate, Phenoxyethanol, Phytantriol, Benzyl Alcohol, Distearoylethyl Dimonium Chloride, Phospholipids, Cetearyl Alcohol, Glycine Soja (Soybean) Oil, Polyquaternium-10, Dehydroacetic Acid, Leuconostoc/Radish Root Ferment Filtrate, Glycolipids, Trisodium Ethylenediamine Disuccinate, Pg-Hydroxyethylcellulose Cocodimonium Chloride, Glycine Soja (Soybean) Sterols, Sodium Hydroxide Show all ingredients by function Water (Aqua/Eau) solvent C15-19 Alkane emollient Glyceryl Stearate emollient, emulsifying 0, 1 Cetyl Alcohol emollient, viscosity controlling 2, 2 Salvia Hispanica Seed Extract PEG-100 Stearate surfactant/​cleansing, emulsifying 0, 0 Phenoxyethanol preservative Phytantriol moisturizer/​humectant Benzyl Alcohol preservative, perfuming, solvent, viscosity controlling Distearoylethyl Dimonium Chloride Phospholipids skin-identical ingredient, emollient goodie Cetearyl Alcohol emollient, viscosity controlling, emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing 1, 2 Glycine Soja (Soybean) Oil emollient, perfuming 0, 3 Polyquaternium-10 viscosity controlling Dehydroacetic Acid Leuconostoc/Radish Root Ferment Filtrate antimicrobial/​antibacterial, preservative Glycolipids Trisodium Ethylenediamine Disuccinate chelating Pg-Hydroxyethylcellulose Cocodimonium Chloride Glycine Soja (Soybean) Sterols Sodium Hydroxide buffering 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 nice-feeling, light emollient that makes the skin soft and smooth. It gives a fresh and gliding sensation with a powdery or soft after-feel depending on the exact grade used. It is a popular alternative to replace silicones. Chemically speaking, it is an alkane (stable, non-reacting hydrocarbon) that used to be produced from petrochemicals, but today's versions are typically vegetable based. It is readily biodegradable. A super common, waxy, white, solid stuff that helps water and oil to mix together, gives body to creams and leaves the skin feeling soft and smooth. Chemically speaking, it is the attachment of a glycerin molecule to the fatty acid called stearic acid. It can be produced from most vegetable oils (in oils three fatty acid molecules are attached to glycerin instead of just one like here) in a pretty simple, "green" process that is similar to soap making. It's readily biodegradable. It also occurs naturally in our body and is used as a food additive. As cosmetic chemist Colins writes it, "its safety really is beyond any doubt". 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. We don't have description for this ingredient yet. A very common water-loving surfactant and emulsifier that helps to keep water and oil mixed nicely together. It's often paired with glyceryl stearate - the two together form a super effective emulsifier duo that's salt and acid tolerant and works over a wide pH range. It also gives a "pleasing product aesthetics", so no wonder it's popular. It’s pretty much the current IT-preservative. It’s safe and gentle, but even more importantly, it’s not a feared-by-everyone-mostly-without-scientific-reason paraben. It’s not something new: it was introduced around 1950 and today it can be used up to 1% worldwide. It can be found in nature - in green tea - but the version used in cosmetics is synthetic. Other than having a good safety profile and being quite gentle to the skin it has some other advantages too. It can be used in many types of formulations as it has great thermal stability (can be heated up to 85°C) and works on a wide ran what‑it‑does emollient | emulsifying irritancy, com. emollient | viscosity controlling surfactant/cleansing | emulsifying moisturizer/humectant preservative | perfuming | solvent | viscosity controlling skin-identical ingredient | emollient emollient | viscosity controlling | emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing emollient | perfuming antimicrobial/antibacterial | preservative

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