Glow Lab Pro-collagen Plumping Face Mask

Glow Lab Pro-collagen Plumping Face Mask Glow Lab Pro-collagen Plumping Face Mask ingredients explained: Water (Aqua), Butylene Glycol, Glycerin, Glutamic Acid, Glycoproteins, Threonine, Valine, Palmitoyl Pentapeptide-4, Persea Gratissima (Avocado) Oil, Rosa Rubiginosa (Rosehip) Seed Oil, Scutellaria Baicalensis Root Extract, Glyceryl Caprylate, Xanthan Gum, Polyglyceryl-4 Caprate, Carbomer, Sodium Acrylate Copolymer, Lecithin, Sodium Lactate, Polysorbate 20, Hydroxyethylcellulose, Sodium Acetate, Glyceryl Acrylate/Acrylic Acid Copolymer, Pvm/Ma Copolymer, Isopropyl Alcohol, Hydroxyacetophenone, Sodium Metabisulfite, Phenoxyethanol, Ethylhexylglycerin, Fragrance (Parfum) Show all ingredients by function Water (Aqua) solvent Butylene Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, solvent 0, 1 Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Glutamic Acid moisturizer/​humectant Glycoproteins Threonine skin-identical ingredient goodie Valine Palmitoyl Pentapeptide-4 cell-communicating ingredient Persea Gratissima (Avocado) Oil antioxidant, emollient 0, 0-3 Rosa Rubiginosa (Rosehip) Seed Oil Scutellaria Baicalensis Root Extract soothing, antioxidant, antimicrobial/​antibacterial, moisturizer/​humectant Glyceryl Caprylate preservative Xanthan Gum viscosity controlling Polyglyceryl-4 Caprate emulsifying Carbomer Sodium Acrylate Copolymer Lecithin emollient, emulsifying Sodium Lactate buffering, moisturizer/​humectant Polysorbate 20 emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing Hydroxyethylcellulose Sodium Acetate buffering Glyceryl Acrylate/Acrylic Acid Copolymer moisturizer/​humectant, viscosity controlling Pvm/Ma Copolymer Isopropyl Alcohol solvent, viscosity controlling, perfuming icky Hydroxyacetophenone antioxidant, preservative Sodium Metabisulfite Phenoxyethanol Ethylhexylglycerin Fragrance (Parfum) perfuming 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. Butylene glycol, or let’s just call it BG, is a multi-tasking colorless, syrupy liquid. It’s a great pick for creating a nice feeling product. BG’s main job is usually to be a solvent for the other ingredients. Other tasks include helping the product to absorb faster and deeper into the skin (penetration enhancer), making the product spread nicely over the skin (slip agent), and attracting water (humectant) into the skin. It’s an ingredient whose safety hasn’t been questioned so far by anyone (at least not that we know about). BG is approved by Ecocert and is also used enthusiastically in natural products. BTW, it’s also a food additive. 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 Glutamic acid is a little molecule and non-essential (our body can synthesize it) amino acid with the important job of being a neurotransmitter in the human body meaning that it helps your nervous system work correctly. As for what it's doing in cosmetics, Glutamic acids' main thing (similar to other amino acids) is being a humectant moisturizer and skin-conditioning agent (sidenote: if you attach lots of glutamic acid molecules, you get polyglutamic acid that is claimed to be a better than hyaluronic acid humectant). It also seems to affect skin barrier repair, however, it is not clear-cut in which direction. The complication is that glutamic acid has two distinct forms, L-glutamic acid and D-glutamic acid, that are the mirror images of each other (think of it like your left and right hand). Studies show that a topical application of L-glutamic acid on damaged skin delayed skin repair, while D-glutamic acid application sped up skin repair. As both forms are used by the industry, it is a bit uncertain what you are getting with just glutamic acid on the ingredient list (but if it is a Shiseido group product, it is probably the goodie D-form :)). Other than that, Glutamic acid can also be use what‑it‑does moisturizer/humectant | solvent irritancy, com. skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant moisturizer/humectant antioxidant | emollient soothing | antioxidant | antimicrobial/antibacterial | moisturizer/humectant emollient | emulsifying buffering | moisturizer/humectant emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing moisturizer/humectant | viscosity controlling solvent | viscosity controlling | perfuming antioxidant | preservative

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