BE BEAUTY Collagen Facial Cream

BE BEAUTY Collagen Facial Cream BE BEAUTY Collagen Facial Cream ingredients explained: Aqua, Butyrospermum Parkii Butter, Glycerin, Behenyl Alcohol, Myristyl Myristate, C12-16 Alcohols, Prunus Amygdalus Dulcis Oil, Acacia Senegal Gum, Tocopheryl Acetate, Hydrogenated Lecithin, Palmitic Acid, Phenethyl Alcohol, Oryza Sativa Starch, Caprylyl Glycol, Parfum, Xanthan Gum, Disodium EDTA, Sodium Hydroxide Show all ingredients by function Aqua solvent Butyrospermum Parkii Butter emollient goodie Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Behenyl Alcohol emollient, viscosity controlling Myristyl Myristate 2, 0-5 C12-16 Alcohols Prunus Amygdalus Dulcis Oil 0, 1-3 Acacia Senegal Gum Tocopheryl Acetate antioxidant Hydrogenated Lecithin emollient, emulsifying Palmitic Acid skin-identical ingredient, emollient, emulsifying 0, 2 Phenethyl Alcohol Oryza Sativa Starch viscosity controlling Caprylyl Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, emollient Parfum perfuming icky Xanthan Gum Disodium EDTA chelating Sodium Hydroxide buffering 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. Unless you live under a rock you must have heard about shea butter. It's probably the most hyped up natural butter in skincare today. It comes from the seeds of African Shea or Karite Trees and used as a magic moisturizer and emollient. But it's not only a simple emollient, it regenerates and soothes the skin, protects it from external factors (such as UV rays or wind) and is also rich in antioxidants (among others vitamin A, E, F, quercetin and epigallocatechin gallate). If you are looking for rich emollient benefits + more, shea is hard to beat. 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 fatty alcohol (the non-drying type with a long oil loving chain of 22 carbon atoms) that is used to increase the viscosity of the formula and it also helps the oily and the watery parts to stay nicely mixed together (called emulsion stabilizing). It's a waxy emollient with a melting point near to skin temperature. It gives body and consistency to the formula and leaves a velvety feel on the skin. It has a high comedogenicity index (5 out of 5), so it might clog pores if you are prone to it. Famous dermatologist, Dr. Leslie Baumann also writes in her book, The Skin Type Solution to avoid this ingredient if you are acne-prone. We don't have description for this ingredient yet. The emollient plant oil that comes from almonds. Similar to other plant oils, it is loaded with skin-nourishing fatty acids (oleic acid - 55-86% and linoleic acid 7-35%) and contains several other skin goodies such as antioxidant vitamin E and vitamin B versions. It's a nice, basic oil that is often used due to its great smoothing, softening and moisturizing properties. It's also particularly good at treating dry brittle nails (source). 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 what‑it‑does skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. emollient | viscosity controlling emollient | emulsifying skin-identical ingredient | emollient | emulsifying moisturizer/humectant | emollient

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