Pacifica Vegan Collagen Hydro-treatment Undereye & Smile Lines
Pacifica Vegan Collagen Hydro-treatment Undereye & Smile Lines Pacifica Vegan Collagen Hydro-treatment Undereye & Smile Lines ingredients explained: Aqua, Glycerin, Sr-Hydrozoan Polypeptide-1 (Vegan Collagen), Cucumis Sativus (Cucumber) Fruit Extract, Sodium A
Pacifica Vegan Collagen Hydro-treatment Undereye & Smile Lines Pacifica Vegan Collagen Hydro-treatment Undereye & Smile Lines ingredients explained: Aqua, Glycerin, Sr-Hydrozoan Polypeptide-1 (Vegan Collagen), Cucumis Sativus (Cucumber) Fruit Extract, Sodium Ascorbyl Phosphate (Vitamin C), Sodium Hyaluronate, Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice, Albizia Julibrissin Bark Extract, Chamomilla Recutita (Matricaria) Flower Extract, Laminaria Japonica Extract, Macrocystis Pyrifera (Kelp) Extract, Betaine, Polyglyceryl-10 Laurate, Xanthan Gum, Sodium Citrate, Phenoxyethanol, Ethylhexylglycerin Show all ingredients by function Aqua solvent Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/humectant 0, 0 superstar Sr-Hydrozoan Polypeptide-1 (Vegan Collagen) moisturizer/humectant, sunscreen Cucumis Sativus (Cucumber) Fruit Extract soothing, emollient goodie Sodium Ascorbyl Phosphate (Vitamin C) antioxidant, anti-acne Sodium Hyaluronate Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice soothing, moisturizer/humectant Albizia Julibrissin Bark Extract Chamomilla Recutita (Matricaria) Flower Extract soothing, antioxidant Laminaria Japonica Extract Macrocystis Pyrifera (Kelp) Extract Betaine moisturizer/humectant Polyglyceryl-10 Laurate surfactant/cleansing, emulsifying Xanthan Gum viscosity controlling Sodium Citrate chelating, buffering Phenoxyethanol preservative Ethylhexylglycerin 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 We don't have description for this ingredient yet. Cucumber is a nice, non-irritating plant extract that’s known for it’s soothing and emollient properties. It’s not something new to put it on our face: even Cleopatra used it to “preserve her skin”. It’s commonly believed that cucumber is the answer to puffy eyes, but there is no research confirming this. What research does confirm is that it contains amino acids and organic acids that’s helpful for the skin’s acid mantle. There is also an enzyme (called shikimate dehydrigenase) in the pulp that’s shown to have anti-inflammatory properties. The sodium salt form of skincare superstar, vitamin C. If you do not know what the big fuss about vitamin C is, you are missing out and you have to click here and read all the geeky details about it. Pure vitamin C (aka ascorbic acid, AA) is great and all, but its lack of stability is a big challenge for the cosmetics industry. One solution is to create stable derivatives that can be absorbed into the skin, convert there to AA and do all the magic AA is proven to do (which is being an antioxidant, a collagen booster, and a skin brightener). SAP (the vit C derivative, not the enterprise software, obvs) is a promising derivative that has great stability up to pH 7. The challenge with it though is skin penetration. Unfortunately, it seems to be limited, or to quote a great article from the Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology "topically applied ascorbyl phosphate salts are, at very best, poorly absorbed in comparison with AA". Regarding conversion to AA, there seems to be no data about it, so we can neither deny nor confirm it. We have better news regarding the three magic abilities of vitamin C: there is in-vivo (tested on real people) data showing that SAP does have photo-protective (aka antioxidant) properties, though less than pure AA. SAP m what‑it‑does skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. moisturizer/humectant | sunscreen soothing | emollient antioxidant | anti-acne soothing | moisturizer/humectant soothing | antioxidant moisturizer/humectant surfactant/cleansing | emulsifying chelating | buffering