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Tosowoong Carnosine Lifting Serum

Tosowoong Carnosine Lifting Serum Tosowoong Carnosine Lifting Serum ingredients explained: Water, Butylene Glycol, 1,2-Hexanediol, Ethylhexyl Palmitate, Glycerin, Methyl Gluceth-20, Ammonium Acryloyldimethyltaurate/VP Copolymer, Hydroxyacetophenone, C12-14 Alk

Tosowoong Carnosine Lifting Serum Tosowoong Carnosine Lifting Serum ingredients explained: Water, Butylene Glycol, 1,2-Hexanediol, Ethylhexyl Palmitate, Glycerin, Methyl Gluceth-20, Ammonium Acryloyldimethyltaurate/VP Copolymer, Hydroxyacetophenone, C12-14 Alketh-12, Xanthan Gum, Carnosine(500Ppm), Dipotassium Glycyrrhizate, Adenosine, Andrographis Paniculata Extract, Disodium EDTA, Collagen Extract Show all ingredients by function Water solvent Butylene Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, solvent 0, 1 1,2-Hexanediol Ethylhexyl Palmitate emollient 0, 2-4 Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Methyl Gluceth-20 moisturizer/​humectant goodie Ammonium Acryloyldimethyltaurate/VP Copolymer viscosity controlling Hydroxyacetophenone antioxidant, preservative C12-14 Alketh-12 Xanthan Gum Carnosine(500Ppm) antioxidant, cell-communicating ingredient Dipotassium Glycyrrhizate soothing, moisturizer/​humectant Adenosine cell-communicating ingredient Andrographis Paniculata Extract Disodium EDTA chelating Collagen Extract 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 really multi-functional helper ingredient that can do several things in a skincare product: it can bring a soft and pleasant feel to the formula, it can act as a humectant and emollient, it can be a solvent for some other ingredients (for example it can help to stabilize perfumes in watery products) and it can also help to disperse pigments more evenly in makeup products. And that is still not all: it can also boost the antimicrobial activity of preservatives. A super common, medium-spreading emollient ester that gives richness to the formula and a mild feel during rubout. It can be a replacement for mineral oil and is often combined with other emollients to achieve different sensorial properties. 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 corn sugar derived, water-soluble, pale yellow syrup, that nicely moisturizes the skin. It has a light and smooth skin feel, it is non-tacky, and it can improve the after-feel of the formula. It is also mild and gentle, popular in sensitive skin formulas. A kind of polymer (big molecule from repeated subunits) that helps to create beautiful gel-like textures. It's also a texturizer and thickener for oil-in-water emulsions. It gives products a good skin feel and does not make the formula tacky what‑it‑does moisturizer/humectant | solvent irritancy, com. skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant moisturizer/humectant antioxidant | preservative antioxidant | cell-communicating ingredient soothing | moisturizer/humectant

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