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Wonderlini Ghk-cu Blue Copper Peptide Body Lotion
Wonderlini Ghk-cu Blue Copper Peptide Body Lotion Wonderlini Ghk-cu Blue Copper Peptide Body Lotion ingredients explained: Aqua, Butylene Glycol, Cyclopentasiloxane, Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Oil, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Dimethicone, Polyamino S
Wonderlini Ghk-cu Blue Copper Peptide Body Lotion Wonderlini Ghk-cu Blue Copper Peptide Body Lotion ingredients explained: Aqua, Butylene Glycol, Cyclopentasiloxane, Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Oil, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Dimethicone, Polyamino Sugar Condensate, Cetearyl Alcohol, Avena Sativa (Oat) Kernel Extract, Cnidium Monnieri Fruit Extract, Chrysanthellum Indicum Extract, Portulaca Oleracea Extract, Steareth-2, Steareth-21, Glycyrrhiza Uralensis (Licorice) Extract, Sodium Acrylate/Sodium Acryloyldimethyl Taurate Copolymer, Copper Tripeptide-1, Pentylene Glycol, 1,2-Hexanediol, Hydrolyzed Sclerotium Gum, Allantoin, Sodium Hyaluronate, Disodium EDTA, Fragrance Show all ingredients by function Aqua solvent Butylene Glycol moisturizer/humectant, solvent 0, 1 Cyclopentasiloxane emollient, solvent Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Oil emollient 0, 0-2 goodie Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride Dimethicone Polyamino Sugar Condensate moisturizer/humectant Cetearyl Alcohol emollient, viscosity controlling, emulsifying, surfactant/cleansing 1, 2 Avena Sativa (Oat) Kernel Extract antioxidant, soothing, emollient, abrasive/scrub Cnidium Monnieri Fruit Extract Chrysanthellum Indicum Extract Portulaca Oleracea Extract soothing, antioxidant Steareth-2 emulsifying, surfactant/cleansing 2, 2 Steareth-21 Glycyrrhiza Uralensis (Licorice) Extract Sodium Acrylate/Sodium Acryloyldimethyl Taurate Copolymer viscosity controlling Copper Tripeptide-1 cell-communicating ingredient, soothing, antioxidant Pentylene Glycol solvent, moisturizer/humectant 1,2-Hexanediol Hydrolyzed Sclerotium Gum Allantoin soothing 0, 0 Sodium Hyaluronate skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/humectant Disodium EDTA chelating 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 super commonly used 5 unit long, cyclic structured silicone that is water-thin and does not stay on the skin but evaporates from it (called volatile silicone). Similar to other silicones, it gives skin and hair a silky, smooth feel. It's often combined with the non-volatile (i.e. stays on the skin) dimethicone as the two together form a water-resistant, breathable protective barrier on the skin without a negative tacky feel. Jojoba is a drought resistant evergreen shrub native to South-western North America. It's known and grown for jojoba oil, the golden yellow liquid coming from the seeds (about 50% of the weight of the seeds will be oil). At first glance, it seems like your average emollient plant oil: it looks like an oil and it's nourishing and moisturizing to the skin but if we dig a bit deeper, it turns out that jojoba oil is really special and unique: technically - or rather chemically - it's not an oil but a wax ester (and calling it an oil is kind of sloppy). So what the heck is a wax ester and why is that important anyway? Well, to understand what a wax ester is, you first have to know that oils are chemically triglycerides: one glycerin + three fatty acids attached to it. The fatty acids attached to the glycerin vary and thus we have many kinds of oils, but they are all triglycerides. Mother Nature created triglycerides to be easily hydrolyzed (be broken down to a glycerin + 3 fatty acid molecules) and oxidized (the fatty acid is broken down into small parts) - this happens basically when we eat fats or oils and our body generates energy from it. Mother Nature also created wax esters but for a totally different purpose. Chemically, a wax ester is a fat what‑it‑does moisturizer/humectant | solvent irritancy, com. emollient | solvent moisturizer/humectant emollient | viscosity controlling | emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing antioxidant | soothing | emollient | abrasive/scrub soothing | antioxidant emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing cell-communicating ingredient | soothing | antioxidant solvent | moisturizer/humectant skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant