By Nature Vitamin C + Collagen Hydrating Face Mask

By Nature Vitamin C + Collagen Hydrating Face Mask By Nature Vitamin C + Collagen Hydrating Face Mask ingredients explained: Aqua (Water), Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice, Hamamelis Virginiana (Witch Hazel) Water, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter, Magnesium Ascorbyl Phosphate, Hydrolyzed (Marine) Collagen, Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C), Tocopheryl Acetate (Vitamin E), Carbomer, PEG-60 Almond Glycerides, Polysorbate 20 (Coconut Derived), Glycerin, Xanthan Gum, Benzyl Alcohol, Parfum (Fragrance), Salicylic Acid, Sorbic Acid, Triethanolamine, Tetrasodium EDTA, Limonene*, Linalool* Show all ingredients by function Aqua (Water) solvent Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice soothing, moisturizer/​humectant goodie Hamamelis Virginiana (Witch Hazel) Water soothing Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter emollient Magnesium Ascorbyl Phosphate skin brightening, antioxidant Hydrolyzed (Marine) Collagen emollient, moisturizer/​humectant Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C) antioxidant, skin brightening, buffering superstar Tocopheryl Acetate (Vitamin E) antioxidant 0, 0 Carbomer viscosity controlling 0, 1 PEG-60 Almond Glycerides emulsifying Polysorbate 20 (Coconut Derived) emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant Xanthan Gum Benzyl Alcohol preservative, perfuming, solvent, viscosity controlling Parfum (Fragrance) perfuming icky Salicylic Acid exfoliant, anti-acne, soothing, preservative Sorbic Acid preservative Triethanolamine buffering 0, 2 Tetrasodium EDTA chelating Limonene* perfuming, solvent Linalool* 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. Aloe Vera is one of today’s magic plants. It does have some very nice properties indeed, though famous dermatologist Leslie Baumann warns us in her book that most of the evidence is anecdotal and the plant might be a bit overhyped. What research does confirm about Aloe is that it’s a great moisturizer and has several anti-inflammatory (among others contains salicylates, polysaccharides, magnesium lactate and C-glucosyl chromone) as well as some antibacterial components. It also helps wound healing and skin regeneration in general. All in all definitely a goodie. The distillate created from different parts of the hazelnut-bush-like magic tree, commonly called Witch Hazel. Hamamelis Virginiana Water is a bit of a sloppy ingredient name as the leaves, the twigs and the bark can be used to create extracts or distillates and the different parts contain different amounts of biologically active components. But what you are getting is probably a nice water with astringent, soothing, antioxidant and antibacterial magic properties. We went into great detail about Witch Hazel in cosmetics here, detailing the main biologically active components and how they are different in different parts of the plant. Click here and read more >> 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 form of skincare superstar, Vitamin C. If you do not know, what the big deal about Vitamin C is, click here and read all about it, we will wait here for you. So now you know that pure vitamin C (aka ascorbic acid, AA) is really unstable and hard to formulate so the cosmetics industry is coming up with a bunch of derivatives to solve the problem and Magnesium Ascorbyl Phosphate (or MAP) is one of them. MAP does solve the stability problem: it's stable up to pH 7, so far so good. What is not so good is that, as the great review study about v what‑it‑does soothing | moisturizer/humectant skin brightening | antioxidant emollient | moisturizer/humectant antioxidant | skin brightening | buffering irritancy, com. emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant preservative | perfuming | solvent | viscosity controlling exfoliant | anti-acne | soothing | preservative perfuming | solvent

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