Home & Body Co Lavender Vanilla Collagen & Hyaluronic Acid Body Lotion

Home & Body Co Lavender Vanilla Collagen & Hyaluronic Acid Body Lotion Home & Body Co Lavender Vanilla Collagen & Hyaluronic Acid Body Lotion ingredients explained: Water, Carthamus Tinctorius (Safflower) Seed Oil, Alcohol, Glycol Stearate, Polyethylene, Stearic Acid, Propylene Glycol, Glycerin, Triethanolamine, Sodium Benzoate, Phenoxyethanol, Argania Spinosa (Argan) Oil, Olea Europaea (Olive), Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Oil, Persea Gratissima (Avocado) Oil, Aloe Barbadensis (Aloe Vera) Juice, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter, Hydrolyzed Collagen, Sodium Hyaluronate, Fragrance Show all ingredients by function Water solvent Carthamus Tinctorius (Safflower) Seed Oil antioxidant, emollient 0, 0-2 goodie Alcohol antimicrobial/​antibacterial, solvent, viscosity controlling icky Glycol Stearate emollient, emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing 0, 0 Polyethylene viscosity controlling Stearic Acid emollient, viscosity controlling 0, 2-3 Propylene Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, solvent Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant superstar Triethanolamine buffering 0, 2 Sodium Benzoate preservative Phenoxyethanol Argania Spinosa (Argan) Oil Olea Europaea (Olive) Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Oil emollient, perfuming 0, 4 Persea Gratissima (Avocado) Oil 0, 0-3 Aloe Barbadensis (Aloe Vera) Juice soothing, moisturizer/​humectant Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter emollient Hydrolyzed Collagen emollient, moisturizer/​humectant Sodium Hyaluronate Fragrance 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. The oil coming from the seeds of the yellow flowered safflower plant. Similar to other plant oils, it's loaded with nourishing and moisturizing fatty acids: it's a high linoleic acid oil (70%) and has only smaller amounts of oleic acid (11%) (this might be great for acne-prone skin). It also contains antioxidant vitamin E (44mg/100g alpha-tocopherol). Simply alcohol refers to ethanol and it's a pretty controversial ingredient. It has many instant benefits: it's a great solvent, penetration enhancer, creates cosmetically elegant, light formulas, great astringent and antimicrobial. No wonder it's popular in toners and oily skin formulas. The downside is that it can be very drying if it's in the first few ingredients on an ingredient list. Some experts even think that regular exposure to alcohol damages skin barrier and causes inflammation though it's a debated opinion. If you wanna know more, we wrote a more detailed explanation about what's the deal with alcohol in skincare products at alcohol denat. (it's also alcohol, but with some additives to make sure no one drinks it). We don't have description for this ingredient yet. Polyethylene is the most common plastic in the world. It is a super versatile polymer (molecule from repeated subunits) and when it comes to cosmetics, it is often referred to as microbeads. Well, it used to be referred to as microbeads, as it was banned in 2015 in the " Microbead-Free Waters Act" due to the small plastic spheres accumulating in the waters and looking like food to fish. Well done by Obama. But being versatile means that polyethylene does not only come as scrub particles but also as a white wax. In its wax-form, it is still well, alive and pretty popular. It thickens up water-free formulas, increases hardness and raises the melting point of emulsions and water-less balms. It is particularly common in cleansing balms and stick-type makeup products due to its ability to add body, hardness and slip to these formulas. A common multi-tasker fatty acid. It makes your skin feel nice and smooth (emollient), gives body to cream type products and helps to stabilize water and oil mixes (aka emulsions). It's a helper ingredient that improves the freeze-thaw stability of products It's also a solvent, humectant and to some extent a penetration enhancer It has a bad reputation a what‑it‑does antioxidant | emollient irritancy, com. antimicrobial/antibacterial | solvent | viscosity controlling emollient | emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing emollient | viscosity controlling moisturizer/humectant | solvent skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant emollient | perfuming soothing | moisturizer/humectant emollient | moisturizer/humectant

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