Edible Beauty Deep Sea Collagen Elixir Serum Plump And Refine

Edible Beauty Deep Sea Collagen Elixir Serum Plump And Refine Edible Beauty Deep Sea Collagen Elixir Serum Plump And Refine ingredients explained: Aqua (Water), Glycerin, Acacia Senegal Gum, Xanthan Gum, P-Anisic Acid, Litchi Chinensis (Lychee) Fruit Extract, Undaria Pinnatifida (Wakame) Leaf/Stem Extract, Glyceryl Caprylate, Ulva Lactuca (Seaweed) Extract, Citrus Reticulata (Red Mandarin) Peel Oil, Panicum Miliaceum (Millet) Seed Extract, Portulaca Oleracea (Portulaca) Extract, P-Anisic Acid, Sodium Anisate, Sodium Levulinate, Collagen*, Salicylic Acid, Sorbic Acid, Limonene^, Linalool^ Show all ingredients by function Aqua (Water) solvent Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Acacia Senegal Gum Xanthan Gum viscosity controlling P-Anisic Acid preservative Litchi Chinensis (Lychee) Fruit Extract Undaria Pinnatifida (Wakame) Leaf/Stem Extract Glyceryl Caprylate Ulva Lactuca (Seaweed) Extract Citrus Reticulata (Red Mandarin) Peel Oil perfuming icky Panicum Miliaceum (Millet) Seed Extract Portulaca Oleracea (Portulaca) Extract soothing, antioxidant goodie Sodium Anisate antimicrobial/​antibacterial Sodium Levulinate Collagen* moisturizer/​humectant Salicylic Acid exfoliant, anti-acne, soothing, preservative Sorbic Acid 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. 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. It's one of the most commonly used thickeners and emulsion stabilizers. If the product is too runny, a little xanthan gum will make it more gel-like. Used alone, it can make the formula sticky and it is a good team player so it is usually combined with other thickeners and so-called rheology modifiers (helper ingredients that adjust the flow and thus the feel of the formula). The typical use level of Xantha Gum is below 1%, it is usually in the 0.1-0.5% range. Btw, Xanthan gum is all natural, a chain of sugar molecules (polysaccharide) produced from individual sugar molecules (glucose and sucrose) via fermentation. It’s approved by Ecocert and also used in the food industry (E415). Though the official function of P-Anisic Acid is masking (meaning that it helps to mask not so nice smells in the product), according to manufacturer info it is rather used as a preservative. It is a skin friendly organic acid that works against fungi. We don't have description for this ingredient yet. A 100% plant derived, natural (Ecocert approved) multi-functional ingredient that has emollient and moisturizing properties, can work as a co-emulsifier (meaning that next to other emulsifiers it can help water and oil to mix) and even more importantly has a strong antimicrobial activity. Thanks to this last thing, it allows a lower percentage of traditional preservative or it might even be able to completely replace them. The essential oil coming from the rind of the mandarin orange also called tangerine. In general, the main component of citrus peel oils is limonene (80-97%), a super common fra what‑it‑does skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. soothing | antioxidant antimicrobial/antibacterial moisturizer/humectant exfoliant | anti-acne | soothing | preservative perfuming | solvent

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