MediFlower Deep Ocean Marine Collagen Mist
MediFlower Deep Ocean Marine Collagen Mist MediFlower Deep Ocean Marine Collagen Mist ingredients explained: Water, Glycerin, Butylene Glycol, Niacinamide, Hydrolyzed Collagen Extract, Caulerpa Lentillifera Extract, Althaea Rosea Root Extract, Aloe Barbadensis
MediFlower Deep Ocean Marine Collagen Mist MediFlower Deep Ocean Marine Collagen Mist ingredients explained: Water, Glycerin, Butylene Glycol, Niacinamide, Hydrolyzed Collagen Extract, Caulerpa Lentillifera Extract, Althaea Rosea Root Extract, Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Extract, Laminaria Digitata Extract, 1,2-Hexanediol, Caprylyl Glycol, Illicium Verum (Anise) Fruit Extract, PEG-60 Hydrogenated Castor Oil, Trideceth-10, Trehalose, Sodium Hyaluronate, Adenosine, Phenoxyethanol, Ethylhexyl-Glycerin, Fragrance Show all ingredients by function Water solvent Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/humectant 0, 0 superstar Butylene Glycol moisturizer/humectant, solvent 0, 1 Niacinamide cell-communicating ingredient, skin brightening, anti-acne, moisturizer/humectant Hydrolyzed Collagen Extract Caulerpa Lentillifera Extract Althaea Rosea Root Extract moisturizer/humectant Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Extract soothing, emollient, moisturizer/humectant goodie Laminaria Digitata Extract 1,2-Hexanediol Caprylyl Glycol moisturizer/humectant, emollient Illicium Verum (Anise) Fruit Extract perfuming PEG-60 Hydrogenated Castor Oil emulsifying, surfactant/cleansing Trideceth-10 surfactant/cleansing Trehalose Sodium Hyaluronate Adenosine cell-communicating ingredient Phenoxyethanol preservative Ethylhexyl-Glycerin Fragrance icky 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 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 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 multi-functional skincare superstar with several proven benefits for the skin Great anti-aging, wrinkle smoothing ingredient used at 4-5% concentration Fades brown spots alone or in combination with amino sugar, acetyl glucosamine Increases ceramide synthesis that results in a stronger, healthier skin barrier and better skin hydration Can help to improve several skin conditions including acne, rosacea, and atopic dermatitis We don't have description for this ingredient yet. The extract coming from the juice containing leaves of the Aloe vera plant. It's usually a hydroglycolic extract (though oil extract for the lipid parts also exists) that has similar moisturizing, emollient and anti-inflammatory properties as the juice itself. We have written some more about aloe here. A really multi-functional helper ingredient that can do several things in a skincare product: it can bring a soft and pleasant feel to the formula, it can act as a humectant and emollient, it can be a solvent for some other ingredients (for example it can help to stabilize perfumes in watery products) and it can also help to disperse pigments more evenly in makeup products. And that is still not all: it can also boost th what‑it‑does skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. moisturizer/humectant | solvent cell-communicating ingredient | skin brightening | anti-acne | moisturizer/humectant moisturizer/humectant soothing | emollient | moisturizer/humectant moisturizer/humectant | emollient emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing surfactant/cleansing