The Inkey List Q10 Serum (Discontinued)

The Inkey List Q10 Serum (Discontinued) The Inkey List Q10 Serum ingredients explained: Water (Aqua/Eau), Butylene Glycol, Dicaprylyl Carbonate, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Dimethicone, Hydroxyethyl Acrylate/Sodium Acryloyldimethyl Taurate Copolymer, Caprylyl Glycol, Squalane, Lecithin, Glycine Soja (Soybean) Extract, Carbomer, Polysorbate 60, Tocopheryl Acetate, Ubiquinone, Disodium EDTA, Sodium Hydroxide, Glycolipids, Glycine Soja (Soybean) Sterols, Palmitoyl Dipeptide-5 Diaminobutyroyl Hydroxythreonine, Palmitoyl Dipeptide-5 Diaminohydroxybutyrate, Leuconostoc/Radish Root Ferment Filtrate, Hyaluronic Acid, Phenoxyethanol Show all ingredients by function Water (Aqua/Eau) solvent Butylene Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, solvent 0, 1 Dicaprylyl Carbonate emollient Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride Dimethicone Hydroxyethyl Acrylate/Sodium Acryloyldimethyl Taurate Copolymer viscosity controlling Caprylyl Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, emollient Squalane skin-identical ingredient, emollient goodie Lecithin emollient, emulsifying Glycine Soja (Soybean) Extract Carbomer Polysorbate 60 emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing Tocopheryl Acetate antioxidant 0, 0 Ubiquinone Disodium EDTA chelating Sodium Hydroxide buffering Glycolipids Glycine Soja (Soybean) Sterols Palmitoyl Dipeptide-5 Diaminobutyroyl Hydroxythreonine cell-communicating ingredient Palmitoyl Dipeptide-5 Diaminohydroxybutyrate Leuconostoc/Radish Root Ferment Filtrate antimicrobial/​antibacterial, preservative Hyaluronic Acid skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant Phenoxyethanol preservative 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 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. A super common emollient that makes your skin feel nice and smooth. It comes from coconut oil and glycerin, it’s light-textured, clear, odorless and non-greasy. It’s a nice ingredient that just feels good on the skin, is super well tolerated by every skin type and easy to formulate with. No wonder it’s popular. Probably the most common silicone of all. It is a polymer (created from repeating subunits) molecule and has different molecular weight and thus different viscosity versions from water-light to thick liquid. As for skincare, it makes the skin silky smooth, creates a subtle gloss and forms a protective barrier (aka occlusive). Also, works well to fill in fine lines and wrinkles and give skin a plump look (of course that is only temporary, but still, it's nice). There are also scar treatment gels out there using dimethicone as their base ingredient. It helps to soften scars and increase their elasticity. As for hair care, it is a non-volatile silicone meaning that it stays on the hair rather than evaporates from it and smoothes the hair like no other thing. Depending on your hair type, it can be a bit difficult to wash out and might cause some build-up (btw, this is not true to all silicones, only the non-volatile types). 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 ag what‑it‑does moisturizer/humectant | solvent irritancy, com. moisturizer/humectant | emollient skin-identical ingredient | emollient emollient | emulsifying emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing antimicrobial/antibacterial | preservative skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant

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