eltraderm Advanced Collagen Concentrate + HA

eltraderm Advanced Collagen Concentrate + HA eltraderm Advanced Collagen Concentrate + HA ingredients explained: Aqua (Water/Eau), Soluble Collagen, PEG-8, Hexylene Glycol, Sodium Hydroxide, Hydrolyzed Sodium Hyaluronate, Alanine, Acrylates C10-30/Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer, Sucrose, Glucose, Fructose, Dextrin, Diazolidinyl Urea, Glutamic Acid, Propylene Glycol, Urea, Aspartic Acid, Hexyl Nicotinate, Iodopropynyl Butylcarbamate Show all ingredients by function Aqua (Water/Eau) solvent Soluble Collagen moisturizer/​humectant goodie PEG-8 moisturizer/​humectant, solvent Hexylene Glycol solvent, emulsifying, perfuming, surfactant/​cleansing 0-1, 0-2 Sodium Hydroxide buffering Hydrolyzed Sodium Hyaluronate Alanine skin-identical ingredient Acrylates C10-30/Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer viscosity controlling Sucrose moisturizer/​humectant, soothing Glucose Fructose Dextrin viscosity controlling, moisturizer/​humectant Diazolidinyl Urea preservative icky Glutamic Acid Propylene Glycol 0, 0 Urea skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant Aspartic Acid Hexyl Nicotinate emollient Iodopropynyl Butylcarbamate 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. Soluble Collagen refers to the big, natural collagen molecules mostly extracted from fish or bovine skin. Spotting collagen on the ingredient list, you might think that, aha, this must be there to supplement the collagen content of our own skin, but you have to know that collagen is a huge-huge molecule that cannot absorb to the middle layer of the skin where collagen is and even if it could, it cannot just magically go the right places to become part of the skin's own collagen network. Putting collagen on your skin for anti-aging purposes is like throwing tent poles onto a ramshackle tent and expecting the tent to magically become nice and firm again. The strong point of collagen is being a large molecule with tremendous water binding capacity, i.e. an amazing humectant and moisturizer. It produces a water-rich film on the skin giving the stratum corneum (the uppermost layer of the skin) great hydration, making it nice and smooth and reducing trans-epidermal-water loss (the process of water evaporating out of your skin). It is also so gentle and non-irritant that it can actually be used in cleansers to reduce the irritating potential of harsh surfactants, aka cleansing agents. If you are fine with animal-derived ingredients and know that collagen in a jar has nothing to do with wrinkles but everything to do with skin hydration, Soluble Collagen is a nice ingredient. A smallish polymer molecule (created from repeated units of Polyethylene glycol, aka PEG) that's used as a solubilizer and viscosity control agent. It is a clear, colorless liquid that is water-soluble and water-binding (aka humectant) and can help to solubilize sparingly-water soluble things (e.g. vanilla, perfumes) into water-based formulas. Thanks to its water-binding ability, it also prevents the drying out of formulas, especially when combined with the fellow hygroscopic agent, sorbitol. Similar to other glycols, it's a helper ingredient used as a solvent, or to thin out thick formulas and make them more nicely spreadable. Hexylene Glycol is also part a preservative blend named Lexgard® HPO, where it helps the effectiveness of current IT-preservative, phenoxyethanol. The unfancy name for it is lye. It’s a solid white stuff that’s very alkaline and used in small amounts to adjust the pH of the product and make it just right. For exa what‑it‑does moisturizer/humectant moisturizer/humectant | solvent solvent | emulsifying | perfuming | surfactant/cleansing irritancy, com. moisturizer/humectant | soothing viscosity controlling | moisturizer/humectant skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant

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