uncommon beauty Glutathione Serum

uncommon beauty Glutathione Serum uncommon beauty Glutathione Serum ingredients explained: Water (Aqua), Propanediol, Glycerin, 1,2-Hexanediol, Caprylyl Glycol, Sodium Hyaluronate, Sorbitan Oleate Decylglucoside Crosspolymer, Tetrasodium Glutamate Diacetate, Ascorbic Acid, Pyrus Malus (Apple) Fruit Extract, Glutathione, Citric Acid, Kojic Acid, Sodium Hydroxide, Vanilla Planifolia Fruit Extract, Ananas Sativus (Pineapple) Fruit Extract, Citrus Aurantium Dulcis (Orange) Fruit Extract, Citrus Limon (Lemon) Peel Extract, Eugenia Caryophyllus (Clove) Flower Extract, Salvia Officinalis (Sage) Leaf Extract, Oxidized Glutathione, Rosa Canina Fruit Oil, Tocopheryl Acetate, Vitis Vinifera (Grape) Seed Oil Show all ingredients by function Water (Aqua) solvent Propanediol solvent, moisturizer/​humectant Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar 1,2-Hexanediol Caprylyl Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, emollient Sodium Hyaluronate goodie Sorbitan Oleate Decylglucoside Crosspolymer emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing Tetrasodium Glutamate Diacetate chelating Ascorbic Acid antioxidant, skin brightening, buffering Pyrus Malus (Apple) Fruit Extract moisturizer/​humectant Glutathione Citric Acid buffering Kojic Acid antioxidant, skin brightening Sodium Hydroxide Vanilla Planifolia Fruit Extract Ananas Sativus (Pineapple) Fruit Extract soothing, moisturizer/​humectant Citrus Aurantium Dulcis (Orange) Fruit Extract Citrus Limon (Lemon) Peel Extract emollient Eugenia Caryophyllus (Clove) Flower Extract Salvia Officinalis (Sage) Leaf Extract surfactant/​cleansing Oxidized Glutathione Rosa Canina Fruit Oil Tocopheryl Acetate antioxidant Vitis Vinifera (Grape) Seed Oil antioxidant, emollient 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. 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 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. It’s a handy multi-tasking ingredient that gives the skin a nice, soft feel. At the same time, it also boosts the effectiveness of other preservatives, such as the nowadays super commonly used phenoxyethanol. The blend of these two (caprylyl glycol + phenoxyethanol) is called Optiphen, which not only helps to keep your cosmetics free from nasty things for a long time but also gives a good feel to the finished product. It's a popular duo. It’s the - sodium form - cousin of the famous NMF, hyaluronic acid (HA). If HA does not tell you anything we have a super detailed, geeky explanation about it here. The TL; DR version of HA is that it's a huge polymer (big molecule from repeated subunits) found in the skin that acts as a sponge helping the skin to hold onto water, being plump and elastic. HA is famous for its crazy water holding capacity as it can bind up to 1000 times its own weight in water. As far as skincare goes, sodium hyaluronate and hyaluronic acid are pretty much the same and the two names are used interchangeably. As cosme what‑it‑does solvent | moisturizer/humectant skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. moisturizer/humectant | emollient emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing antioxidant | skin brightening | buffering moisturizer/humectant antioxidant | skin brightening soothing | moisturizer/humectant surfactant/cleansing antioxidant | emollient

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