It's Skin Collagen Nutrition Cream

It's Skin Collagen Nutrition Cream It's Skin Collagen Nutrition Cream ingredients explained: Water, Hydrolyzed Collagen, Octyldodecanol, Sodium Hyaluronate, Cyclomethicone, Butylene Glycol, Glycereth-26, Cetearyl Alcohol, Glycerin, PEG-20 Methyl Glucose Sesquistearate, Laminaria Japonica Extract, Sodium Polyacrylate, Ethylhexyl Stearate, Caprylyl Glycol, Fragrance, Methyl Glucose Sesquistearate, Ethylhexylglycerin, Hydrolyzed Malt Extract, Saussurea Involucrata Extract, Tocopheryl Acetate, Trideceth-6, Arctostaphylos Uva-Ursi Leaf Extract, Disodium EDTA, Yellow 6 (Ci 15985), Red 4 (Ci 14700) Show all ingredients by function Water solvent Hydrolyzed Collagen emollient, moisturizer/​humectant goodie Octyldodecanol emollient, perfuming Sodium Hyaluronate skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 Cyclomethicone emollient Butylene Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, solvent 0, 1 Glycereth-26 moisturizer/​humectant, emollient, viscosity controlling Cetearyl Alcohol emollient, viscosity controlling, emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing 1, 2 Glycerin superstar PEG-20 Methyl Glucose Sesquistearate emulsifying Laminaria Japonica Extract Sodium Polyacrylate viscosity controlling Ethylhexyl Stearate Caprylyl Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, emollient Fragrance perfuming icky Methyl Glucose Sesquistearate emollient, emulsifying Ethylhexylglycerin preservative Hydrolyzed Malt Extract Saussurea Involucrata Extract moisturizer/​humectant Tocopheryl Acetate antioxidant Trideceth-6 emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing Arctostaphylos Uva-Ursi Leaf Extract antioxidant, skin brightening Disodium EDTA chelating Yellow 6 (Ci 15985) colorant Red 4 (Ci 14700) 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 chemically chopped up version of the big protein molecule, collagen. It is often derived from fish or bovine sources and works as a nice moisturizer and humectant that helps the skin to hold onto water. To understand a bit more what Hydrolyzed Collagen is, you have to know that proteins are large chains of amino acids connected with so-called peptide bonds. These bonds can be broken up when a water molecule is added and the resulting thing is a mix of shorter length amino acids, also called peptides. So Hydrolyzed Collagen is not really collagen, it is rather an undefined and varying mix of largish peptides. Based on a manufacturer's data, the whole, soluble collagen has an average molecular weight of 300 000 Da, while this chopped up mixture has an average MW of 12 000 Da (still pretty big). The main thing of these largish peptides is to act as water-binding agents, and to make the skin nice and smooth (aka emollient). Hydrolyzed Collagen is also often used in cleansers as it can make harsh surfactants milder and in hair conditioners as it improves the flexibility and manageability of hair. If you wanna know more about collagen in cosmetics, we have a shiny explanation about soluble collagen here >> A clear, slightly yellow, odorless oil that's a very common, medium-spreading emollient. It makes the skin feel nice and smooth and works in a wide range of formulas. It’s the - sodium form - cousin of the famous NMF, hyaluronic acid (HA). If HA does not tell you anything we have a super detailed, geeky explanation about it here. The TL; DR version of HA is that it's a huge polymer (big molecule from repeated subunits) found in the skin that acts as a sponge helping the skin to hold onto water, being plump and elastic. HA is famous for its crazy water holding capacity as it can bind up to 1000 times its own weight in water. As far as skincare goes, sodium hyaluronate and hyaluronic acid are pretty much the same and the two names are used interchangeably. As cosmetic chemist kindofstephen writes on reddit "sodium hyaluronate disassociates into hyaluronic acid molecule and a sodium atom in solution". In spite of this, if you search for "hyaluronic acid vs sodium hyaluronate" you will find on multiple places that sodium hyaluronate is smaller and can penetrate the skin better. Chemically, this is defin what‑it‑does emollient | moisturizer/humectant emollient | perfuming skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. moisturizer/humectant | solvent moisturizer/humectant | emollient | viscosity controlling emollient | viscosity controlling | emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing moisturizer/humectant | emollient emollient | emulsifying moisturizer/humectant emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing antioxidant | skin brightening

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