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The Ordinary Multi-peptide Eye Serum
The Ordinary Multi-peptide Eye Serum The Ordinary Multi-peptide Eye Serum ingredients explained: Aqua (Water), Glycerin, Butylene Glycol, Propanediol, Dipropylene Glycol, Acetyl Glucosamine, Niacinamide, Palmitoyl Tripeptide-38, Acetyl Tetrapeptide-5, Myristoy
The Ordinary Multi-peptide Eye Serum The Ordinary Multi-peptide Eye Serum ingredients explained: Aqua (Water), Glycerin, Butylene Glycol, Propanediol, Dipropylene Glycol, Acetyl Glucosamine, Niacinamide, Palmitoyl Tripeptide-38, Acetyl Tetrapeptide-5, Myristoyl Nonapeptide-3, Dipeptide Diaminobutyroyl Benzylamide Diacetate, Caffeine, Epigallocatechin Gallatyl Glucoside, Gallyl Glucoside, Fraxinus Excelsior Bark Extract, Silanetriol, Arginine, Pentylene Glycol, Hydroxymethoxyphenyl Decanone, Propyl Gallate, Maltodextrin, Hydroxypropyl Cyclodextrin, Hydroxyethylcellulose, Xanthan Gum, Citric Acid, Glycolic Acid, Sodium Citrate, Polysorbate 20, Trisodium Ethylenediamine Disuccinate, Dehydroacetic Acid, Ethylhexylglycerin, Benzyl Alcohol, Phenoxyethanol, Chlorphenesin Show all ingredients by function Aqua (Water) solvent Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/humectant 0, 0 superstar Butylene Glycol moisturizer/humectant, solvent 0, 1 Propanediol solvent, moisturizer/humectant Dipropylene Glycol Acetyl Glucosamine skin-identical ingredient, skin brightening goodie Niacinamide cell-communicating ingredient, skin brightening, anti-acne, moisturizer/humectant Palmitoyl Tripeptide-38 cell-communicating ingredient Acetyl Tetrapeptide-5 cell-communicating ingredient, moisturizer/humectant Myristoyl Nonapeptide-3 Dipeptide Diaminobutyroyl Benzylamide Diacetate Caffeine antioxidant, perfuming Epigallocatechin Gallatyl Glucoside antioxidant, soothing Gallyl Glucoside Fraxinus Excelsior Bark Extract Silanetriol Arginine skin-identical ingredient Pentylene Glycol Hydroxymethoxyphenyl Decanone Propyl Gallate Maltodextrin Hydroxypropyl Cyclodextrin Hydroxyethylcellulose viscosity controlling Xanthan Gum Citric Acid buffering Glycolic Acid exfoliant, buffering Sodium Citrate chelating, buffering Polysorbate 20 emulsifying, surfactant/cleansing Trisodium Ethylenediamine Disuccinate chelating Dehydroacetic Acid preservative Ethylhexylglycerin Benzyl Alcohol preservative, perfuming, solvent, viscosity controlling Phenoxyethanol Chlorphenesin preservative, antimicrobial/antibacterial 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 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. 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. A clear, colorless liquid that works as a solvent and viscosity decreasing ingredient. It also has great skin-moisturizing abilities. An amino acid sugar that can be found in the skin and does there good and important things. One of them is that it's a precursor for the biosynthesis of superstar moisturizer, hyaluronic acid. So acetyl glucosamine itself is also an important skin-identical ingredient and natural moisturizing factor. But that is not all, acetyl glucosamine has two other great properties proved by double-blind clinical trials. First, it's a promising ingredient against wrinkles: 2% can improve wrinkles, particularly in the eye area. Second, the same amount can also fade - always stubborn - brown spots. (Do not expect magic, though - the photos from the study show the difference after 8 weeks of daily use. The difference is visible, but not tha what‑it‑does skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. moisturizer/humectant | solvent solvent | moisturizer/humectant skin-identical ingredient | skin brightening cell-communicating ingredient | skin brightening | anti-acne | moisturizer/humectant cell-communicating ingredient | moisturizer/humectant antioxidant | perfuming antioxidant | soothing exfoliant | buffering chelating | buffering emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing preservative | perfuming | solvent | viscosity controlling preservative | antimicrobial/antibacterial