TonyMoly Timeless Ferment Snail Hydrogel Mask

TonyMoly Timeless Ferment Snail Hydrogel Mask TonyMoly Timeless Ferment Snail Hydrogel Mask ingredients explained: Water, Butylene Glycol, Glycerin, Snail Secretion Filtrate, Cetyl Ethylhexanoate, Citrus Paradisi (Grapefruit) Fruit Extract, Chondrus Crispus (Carrageenan), Ceratonia Siliqua Gum, Cellulose Gum, Polyacrylate-13, Sodium Polyacrylate, Polyisobutene, Polysorbate 20, Imperata Cylindrica Root Extract, Centella Asiatica Extract, Disodium EDTA, Phenoxyethanol, Fragrance Show all ingredients by function Water solvent Butylene Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, solvent 0, 1 Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Snail Secretion Filtrate antioxidant, moisturizer/​humectant goodie Cetyl Ethylhexanoate emollient Citrus Paradisi (Grapefruit) Fruit Extract Chondrus Crispus (Carrageenan) viscosity controlling Ceratonia Siliqua Gum emollient, viscosity controlling Cellulose Gum Polyacrylate-13 Sodium Polyacrylate Polyisobutene Polysorbate 20 emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing Imperata Cylindrica Root Extract moisturizer/​humectant Centella Asiatica Extract soothing, antioxidant, moisturizer/​humectant Disodium EDTA chelating Phenoxyethanol preservative Fragrance perfuming icky 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 If you are into the K-Beauty trend, you must have bumped into snail slime like a thousand times. Korean brands love the ingredient and tout it for its miraculous repair and hydration properties. It's claimed to be able to repair everything from dry patches, acne breakouts to signs of aging and we are happy to say that it might be just true. So snail slime is the yucky stuff that snails (in cosmetics the secretion of Cornu Aspersum, the garden snail is used) produce when they are in stress (it's not the same as the one they secret to be able to move nicely and smoothly). As the cosmetic chemists at the Beauty Brains blog write, "chemically speaking, snail slime is a complex mixture of proteoglycans, glycosaminoglycans, glycoprotein enzymes, hyaluronic acid, copper peptides, antimicrobial peptides and trace elements including copper, zinc, and iron." English translation equals it's loaded with a bunch of good-for-the-skin stuff. As for scientific proof that snail slime does something for the skin, we did find a couple of studies to go by. A Spanish radiation oncologist, Rafael Abad Iglesias MD discovered for the first time that snail mucin can be used to treat radiation dermatitis (skin irrit what‑it‑does moisturizer/humectant | solvent irritancy, com. skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant antioxidant | moisturizer/humectant emollient | viscosity controlling emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing moisturizer/humectant soothing | antioxidant | moisturizer/humectant

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