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The Inkey List The Tranexamic Acid Night Treatment
The Inkey List The Tranexamic Acid Night Treatment The Inkey List The Tranexamic Acid Night Treatment ingredients explained: Water, Butylene Glycol, Glycerin, Ascorbyl Glucoside, Tranexamic Acid, Euterpe Oleracea Fruit Extract, 1-Methylhydantoin-2-Imide, Sodiu
The Inkey List The Tranexamic Acid Night Treatment The Inkey List The Tranexamic Acid Night Treatment ingredients explained: Water, Butylene Glycol, Glycerin, Ascorbyl Glucoside, Tranexamic Acid, Euterpe Oleracea Fruit Extract, 1-Methylhydantoin-2-Imide, Sodium Acrylates Copolymer, Phenoxyethanol, Carbomer, Sodium Hydroxide, Cetearyl Olivate, Benzyl Alcohol, Sorbitan Olivate, Hydroxyethyl Acrylate/Sodium Acryloyldimethyl Taurate Copolymer, Lecithin, Squalane, Ethylhexylglycerin, Sodium Gluconate, Polysorbate 60, Dehydroacetic Acid, Lactobacillus Ferment, Sorbitan Isostearate Show all ingredients by function Water solvent Butylene Glycol moisturizer/humectant, solvent 0, 1 Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/humectant 0, 0 superstar Ascorbyl Glucoside antioxidant, skin brightening goodie Tranexamic Acid skin brightening, soothing Euterpe Oleracea Fruit Extract 1-Methylhydantoin-2-Imide Sodium Acrylates Copolymer viscosity controlling Phenoxyethanol preservative Carbomer Sodium Hydroxide buffering Cetearyl Olivate emulsifying Benzyl Alcohol preservative, perfuming, solvent, viscosity controlling Sorbitan Olivate Hydroxyethyl Acrylate/Sodium Acryloyldimethyl Taurate Copolymer Lecithin emollient, emulsifying Squalane skin-identical ingredient, emollient Ethylhexylglycerin Sodium Gluconate chelating, moisturizer/humectant Polysorbate 60 emulsifying, surfactant/cleansing Dehydroacetic Acid Lactobacillus Ferment soothing, preservative Sorbitan Isostearate 0, 1-2 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 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 form of skincare superstar, vitamin C. If you do not know why vitamin C is such a big deal in skincare, we have a really detailed, geeky description that's good to read. :) So now you know that because pure vitamin C is such a diva (very unstable and hard to formulate) the cosmetic industry is trying to come up with some derivatives that have the badass anti-aging properties of vitamin C (antioxidant protection + collagen boosting + fading hyperpigmentation) but without the disadvantages. This is a hard task, and there is not yet a derivative that is really proven to be better in every aspect, but Ascorbyl Glucoside is one of the best options when it comes to vitamin C derivatives. Let's see why: First, it's really stable and easy to formulate, so the problems that come with pure vitamin C are solved here. Second, in vitro (meaning made in the lab, not on real humans) studies show that ascorbyl glucoside can penetrate the skin. This is kind of important for an anti-aging ingredient to do the job, so this is good news, though in-vivo (made on real humans) studies are still needed. Third, in-vitro studies show that after ascorbyl glucoside is absorbed into the skin it is converted to pure v what‑it‑does moisturizer/humectant | solvent irritancy, com. skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant antioxidant | skin brightening skin brightening | soothing preservative | perfuming | solvent | viscosity controlling emollient | emulsifying skin-identical ingredient | emollient chelating | moisturizer/humectant emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing soothing | preservative