eltraderm Advanced Native Collagen + HA

eltraderm Advanced Native Collagen + HA eltraderm Advanced Native Collagen + HA ingredients explained: Aqua (Water/Eau), PEG-8, Soluble Collagen, Sodium Hydroxide, Hexylene Glycol, Acrylates C10-30/Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer, Alanine, Sucrose, Glucose, Fructose, Sodium Hyaluronate, Diazolidinyl Urea, Dextrin, Urea, Glutamic Acid, Propylene Glycol, Aspartic Acid, Hexyl Nicotinate, Iodopropynyl Butylcarbamate Show all ingredients by function Aqua (Water/Eau) solvent PEG-8 moisturizer/​humectant, solvent Soluble Collagen moisturizer/​humectant goodie Sodium Hydroxide buffering Hexylene Glycol solvent, emulsifying, perfuming, surfactant/​cleansing 0-1, 0-2 Acrylates C10-30/Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer viscosity controlling Alanine skin-identical ingredient Sucrose moisturizer/​humectant, soothing Glucose Fructose Sodium Hyaluronate skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 Diazolidinyl Urea preservative icky Dextrin viscosity controlling, moisturizer/​humectant Urea Glutamic Acid Propylene Glycol 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. 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. 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. 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 example, in case of AHA or BHA exfoliants, the right pH is super-duper important, and pH adjusters like sodium hydroxide are needed. BTW, lye is not something new. It was already used by ancient Egyptians to help oil and fat magically turn into something else. Can you guess what? Yes, it what‑it‑does moisturizer/humectant | solvent moisturizer/humectant solvent | emulsifying | perfuming | surfactant/cleansing irritancy, com. moisturizer/humectant | soothing skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant viscosity controlling | moisturizer/humectant

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