White Egret Personal Care Vitamin C Hyaluronic Acid Serum

White Egret Personal Care Vitamin C Hyaluronic Acid Serum White Egret Personal Care Vitamin C Hyaluronic Acid Serum ingredients explained: Water (Aqua), Sodium Ascorbyl Phosphate (Vitamin C), Carthamus Tinctorius Seed Oil, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Cetyl Alcohol, Glycerin, Stearyl Alcohol, Glyceryl Stearate Citrate, Sodium Hyaluronate (Hyaluronic Acid), Tocopheryl Acetate (Vitamin E), Glyceryl Stearate, Panthenol (Provitamin B5), Citrus Aurantifolia Lime Oil, Xanthan Gum, Glyceryl Stearate SE, Aloe Vera Leaf Extract, Allantoin, Cetearyl Glucoside, Retinyl Palmitate(Vitamin A), Potassium Sorbate, Phenoxyethanol, Ethylhexylglycerin, Caramel Show all ingredients by function Water (Aqua) solvent Sodium Ascorbyl Phosphate (Vitamin C) antioxidant, anti-acne goodie Carthamus Tinctorius Seed Oil antioxidant, emollient 0, 0-2 Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride emollient Cetyl Alcohol emollient, viscosity controlling 2, 2 Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Stearyl Alcohol emollient, viscosity controlling, emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing Glyceryl Stearate Citrate emollient, emulsifying Sodium Hyaluronate (Hyaluronic Acid) Tocopheryl Acetate (Vitamin E) antioxidant Glyceryl Stearate 0, 1 Panthenol (Provitamin B5) soothing, moisturizer/​humectant Citrus Aurantifolia Lime Oil surfactant/​cleansing, perfuming icky Xanthan Gum viscosity controlling Glyceryl Stearate SE emulsifying 2, 3 Aloe Vera Leaf Extract soothing, emollient, moisturizer/​humectant Allantoin soothing Cetearyl Glucoside emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing Retinyl Palmitate(Vitamin A) cell-communicating ingredient 1-3, 1-3 Potassium Sorbate preservative Phenoxyethanol Ethylhexylglycerin Caramel colorant 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. The sodium salt form of skincare superstar, vitamin C. If you do not know what the big fuss about vitamin C is, you are missing out and you have to click here and read all the geeky details about it. Pure vitamin C (aka ascorbic acid, AA) is great and all, but its lack of stability is a big challenge for the cosmetics industry. One solution is to create stable derivatives that can be absorbed into the skin, convert there to AA and do all the magic AA is proven to do (which is being an antioxidant, a collagen booster, and a skin brightener). SAP (the vit C derivative, not the enterprise software, obvs) is a promising derivative that has great stability up to pH 7. The challenge with it though is skin penetration. Unfortunately, it seems to be limited, or to quote a great article from the Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology "topically applied ascorbyl phosphate salts are, at very best, poorly absorbed in comparison with AA". Regarding conversion to AA, there seems to be no data about it, so we can neither deny nor confirm it. We have better news regarding the three magic abilities of vitamin C: there is in-vivo (tested on real people) data showing that SAP does have photo-protective (aka antioxidant) properties, though less than pure AA. SAP might also aid collagen boosting; in-vitro (made in the lab) data shows that it works, but is less effective than another vitamin C derivative, called MAP (that seems to be as effective as pure AA). As for skin-brightening, there is a trade publication with in-vivo data showing that SAP can fade brown spots. Another thing SAP might be able to do is to help with acne. A 2005 study showed in vitro (in test tubes) that 1% SAP has a strong antimicrobial activity on evil acne causing P. acnes and it also showed in vivo (on real people) that 5% SAP can strongly improve the inflammatory and non-inflammatory lesions of acne vulgaris. In fact, the results were comparable or even slightly better than with 5% benzoyl peroxide. And there is even more regarding SAP and acne. A nice double-blind study from 2009 showed that 5% SAP reduced the inflammatory lesions by 20.14% and 48.82% within 4 and 8 weeks respectively and when combined with 0.2% retinol the results were even better. With this combination treatment, the improvement was 29.28% after 4 weeks and 63.10% after 8 weeks of what‑it‑does antioxidant | anti-acne antioxidant | emollient irritancy, com. emollient | viscosity controlling skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant emollient | viscosity controlling | emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing emollient | emulsifying soothing | moisturizer/humectant surfactant/cleansing | perfuming soothing | emollient | moisturizer/humectant emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing

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