ZealSea Hyaluronic Acid Serum

ZealSea Hyaluronic Acid Serum ZealSea Hyaluronic Acid Serum ingredients explained: Aqua, Butylene Glycol, Glycereth-26, Trehalose, Pentylene Glycol, Sodium Hyaluronate, 1,2-Hexanediol, Allantoin, Hydroxyacetophenone, Ethylhexylglycerin, Panthenol, Dipotassium Glycyrrhizate, Xylitylglucoside, Anhydroxylitol, Xylitol, Sodium Acetylated Hyaluronate, Sodium Hyaluronate Crosspolymer, Glucose, Hydrolyzed Sodium Hyaluronate Show all ingredients by function Aqua solvent Butylene Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, solvent 0, 1 Glycereth-26 moisturizer/​humectant, emollient, viscosity controlling 0, 0 Trehalose moisturizer/​humectant goodie Pentylene Glycol solvent, moisturizer/​humectant Sodium Hyaluronate skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 1,2-Hexanediol Allantoin soothing Hydroxyacetophenone antioxidant, preservative Ethylhexylglycerin preservative Panthenol soothing, moisturizer/​humectant Dipotassium Glycyrrhizate Xylitylglucoside Anhydroxylitol Xylitol Sodium Acetylated Hyaluronate Sodium Hyaluronate Crosspolymer skin-identical ingredient, antioxidant, moisturizer/​humectant Glucose Hydrolyzed Sodium Hyaluronate 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. It's a nice glycerin-based humectant and emollient that gives skin a smooth and luxurious feel. A type of sugar that has water-binding properties and helps to keep your skin hydrated. A multi-functional, silky feeling helper ingredient that can do quite many things. It's used as an emulsion stabilizer, solvent and a broad spectrum antimicrobial. According to manufacturer info, it's also a moisturizer and helps to make the product feel great on the skin. It works synergistically with preservatives and helps to improve water-resistance of sunscreens. 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 cosmetic chemist kindofstephen writes on reddit "sodium hyaluronate disassociates into hyaluronic acid molecule and a sodium atom in solution". In spite of this, if you search for "hyaluronic acid vs sodium hyaluronate" you will find on multiple places that sodium hyaluronate is smaller and can penetrate the skin better. Chemically, this is definitely not true, as the two forms are almost the same, both are polymers and the subunits can be repeated in both forms as much as you like. (We also checked Prospector for sodium hyaluronate what‑it‑does moisturizer/humectant | solvent irritancy, com. moisturizer/humectant | emollient | viscosity controlling moisturizer/humectant solvent | moisturizer/humectant skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant antioxidant | preservative soothing | moisturizer/humectant skin-identical ingredient | antioxidant | moisturizer/humectant

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