XO8 Cosmeceuticals Peptide Radiance Mask

XO8 Cosmeceuticals Peptide Radiance Mask XO8 Cosmeceuticals Peptide Radiance Mask ingredients explained: Aqua, Glycerin, Acacia Senegal Gum, Ethyl Ascorbic Acid, Grape Seed Oil, Snap 8, Aqua, Acetyl Octapeptide-3, Caprylyl Glycol, Plum Extract, Trehalose, Coenzyme Q10, Hydrolyzed Collagen, Hyaluronic Acid, Arbutin, Retinol, Rose Extract, Potassium Sorbate Show all ingredients by function Aqua solvent Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Acacia Senegal Gum Ethyl Ascorbic Acid antioxidant, skin brightening goodie Grape Seed Oil antioxidant, emollient Acetyl Octapeptide-3 cell-communicating ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant Caprylyl Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, emollient Plum Extract moisturizer/​humectant Trehalose Coenzyme Q10 antioxidant Hydrolyzed Collagen emollient, moisturizer/​humectant Hyaluronic Acid Arbutin Retinol cell-communicating ingredient Rose Extract Potassium Sorbate preservative 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. 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 natural polymer (big molecules from repeated subunits) that is harvested from the Acacia tree in the sub-Saharan region in Africa. It's a great thickening and binding agent. Often coupled with xanthan gum, as it helps to reduce its unpleasant stickiness. A very stable and promising form of the skincare superstar, Vitamin C. If you do not know why Vitamin C is such a big deal in skin care, you can catch up here. In short, Vitamin C has three proven magic abilities: antioxidant, collagen booster, and skin brightener. The problem, though, is that it's very unstable, turns brown and becomes ineffective in no time (after a few month) and the cosmetics industry is trying to come up with smart derivatives that are stable and have the magic properties of pure Vitamin C. Ethyl Ascorbic Acid or EAC for short is an "etherified derivative of ascorbic acid" that consists of vitamin C and an ethyl group bound to the third carbon position. This makes Vitamin C very stable and soluble in both water and oil. However, for a Vitamin C derivative to work it's not enough just to be stable, they also have to be absorbed into the skin and be converted there to pure Vitamin C. We have good news regarding the absorption: on top of manufacturer claims, there is some data (animal study) demonstrating in can get into the skin, and it seems to be better at it than Ascorbyl Glucoside, another vitamin C derivative. Regarding conversion, we can cite only a manufacturers claim saying that EAC is metabolized in the skin into pure ascorbic acid (and the ascorbic acid content of EAC is very high - 86,4% - compared to the usual 50-60% Vitamin C content of other derivatives). As for the three magic abilities of Vitamin C, we again mostly have only the manufacturer's claims, but at least those are very promising. EAC seems to have both an antioxidant and anti- what‑it‑does skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. antioxidant | skin brightening antioxidant | emollient cell-communicating ingredient | moisturizer/humectant moisturizer/humectant | emollient moisturizer/humectant emollient | moisturizer/humectant

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