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The Ordinary Multi-Peptide Serum For Hair Density

The Ordinary Multi-Peptide Serum For Hair Density The Ordinary Multi-Peptide Serum For Hair Density ingredients explained: Aqua (Water), Propanediol, Butylene Glycol, Glycerin, Caffeine, Biotinoyl Tripeptide-1, Acetyl Tetrapeptide-3, Larix Europaea Wood Extrac

The Ordinary Multi-Peptide Serum For Hair Density The Ordinary Multi-Peptide Serum For Hair Density ingredients explained: Aqua (Water), Propanediol, Butylene Glycol, Glycerin, Caffeine, Biotinoyl Tripeptide-1, Acetyl Tetrapeptide-3, Larix Europaea Wood Extract, Pisum Sativum Extract, Scutellaria Baicalensis Root Extract, Triticum Vulgare Germ Extract, Glycine Soja Germ Extract, Trifolium Pratense Flower Extract, Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract, Apigenin, Oleanolic Acid, Arginine, Glycine, Calcium Gluconate, Zinc Chloride, Lactic Acid, Gluconolactone, Dextran, Maltodextrin, Hydroxyethylcellulose, Xanthan Gum, Pentylene Glycol, Dimethyl Isosorbide, Polysorbate 20, Ppg-26-Buteth-26, Peg-40 Hydrogenated Castor Oil, Trisodium Ethylenediamine Disuccinate, Sodium Metabisulfite, Sodium Benzoate, Phenoxyethanol, Chlorphenesin Show all ingredients by function Aqua (Water) solvent Propanediol solvent, moisturizer/​humectant Butylene Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, solvent 0, 1 Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Caffeine antioxidant, perfuming goodie Biotinoyl Tripeptide-1 cell-communicating ingredient Acetyl Tetrapeptide-3 Larix Europaea Wood Extract moisturizer/​humectant Pisum Sativum Extract Scutellaria Baicalensis Root Extract soothing, antioxidant, antimicrobial/​antibacterial, moisturizer/​humectant Triticum Vulgare Germ Extract Glycine Soja Germ Extract emollient Trifolium Pratense Flower Extract Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract antioxidant, soothing Apigenin antioxidant Oleanolic Acid Arginine skin-identical ingredient Glycine Calcium Gluconate Zinc Chloride soothing Lactic Acid exfoliant, moisturizer/​humectant, buffering Gluconolactone exfoliant, chelating Dextran viscosity controlling Maltodextrin Hydroxyethylcellulose Xanthan Gum Pentylene Glycol Dimethyl Isosorbide solvent, viscosity controlling Polysorbate 20 emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing Ppg-26-Buteth-26 Peg-40 Hydrogenated Castor Oil Trisodium Ethylenediamine Disuccinate chelating Sodium Metabisulfite antioxidant, preservative Sodium Benzoate preservative 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. 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. 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 Hello, our favorite molecule that helps us wake up in the morning and then keeps us going through the day. As a super well-known stimulant from coffee, tea and plenty of other soft drinks, Caffeine needs no introduction. So we will skip right to the part where we talk about what the hell it does in so-so many cosmetic products. Looking at the research, we were surprised to find how versatile Caffeine is. It is a small, water-loving molecule with pretty good skin penetration abilties. Once in the skin, it has nice antioxidant properties, meaning that it reduces the formation of evil free radicals and it might even be useful in preventing UV-induced skin cancers. A well-known thing about Caffeine is that it improves the microcirculation of the blood vessels. Though conventional wisdom and anecdotal evidence says that this property is helpful for dark under-ey what‑it‑does solvent | moisturizer/humectant moisturizer/humectant | solvent irritancy, com. skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant antioxidant | perfuming moisturizer/humectant soothing | antioxidant | antimicrobial/antibacterial | moisturizer/humectant antioxidant | soothing exfoliant | moisturizer/humectant | buffering exfoliant | chelating solvent | viscosity controlling emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing antioxidant | preservative preservative | antimicrobial/antibacterial

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