Provence Beauty Vitamin C + Collagen Brightening + Firming Eye Cream

Provence Beauty Vitamin C + Collagen Brightening + Firming Eye Cream Provence Beauty Vitamin C + Collagen Brightening + Firming Eye Cream ingredients explained: Deionized Water (Aqua), Caprylic Capric Triglyceride, Glycerin, Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C), SH-Polypeptide-121 (Collagen), Sodium Acrylate Sodium Acryloyldimethyl Taurate Copolymer, C15-19 Alkane, C10-16 Alkyl Glucoside, Phenoxyethanol, Ethylhexylglycerin, Silica, Essential Oils Show all ingredients by function Deionized Water (Aqua) solvent Caprylic Capric Triglyceride emollient Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C) antioxidant, skin brightening, buffering SH-Polypeptide-121 (Collagen) Sodium Acrylate Sodium Acryloyldimethyl Taurate Copolymer viscosity controlling C15-19 Alkane C10-16 Alkyl Glucoside emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing Phenoxyethanol preservative Ethylhexylglycerin Silica Essential Oils 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 super common emollient that makes your skin feel nice and smooth. It comes from coconut oil and glycerin, it’s light-textured, clear, odorless and non-greasy. It’s a nice ingredient that just feels good on the skin, is super well tolerated by every skin type and easy to formulate with. No wonder it’s popular. 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 Works best between a concentration of 5-20% Boosts the skin’s own collagen production Fades pigmentation and brown spots If used under sunscreen it boosts its UV protection Extremely unstable and oxidizes very easily in presence of light or air Stable in solutions with water only if pH is less than 3.5 or in waterless formulations Vit E + C work in synergy and provide superb photoprotection Ferulic acid doubles the photoprotection effect of Vit C+E and helps to stabilize Vit C Potent Vit. C serums might cause a slight tingling on sensitive skin We don't have description for this ingredient yet. A copolymer is a big molecule that consists not of one but of two repeating subunits. This particular copolymer is a handy helper ingredient to form nice gel textures. It usually comes to the formula combined with emollients (such as C13-14 Isoparaffin, Isohexadecane, Isononyl Isononanoate or Squalane) and can be used as an emulsifier and/or thickener to produce milky gel emulsions with a soft and non-tacky skin feel. A nice-feeling, light emollient that makes the skin soft and smooth. It gives a fresh and gliding sensation with a powdery or soft after-feel depending on the exact grade used. It is a popular alternative to replace silicones. Chemically speaking, it is an alkane (stable, non-reacting hydrocarbon) that used to be produced from petrochemicals, but today's versions are typically vegetable based. It is readily biodegradable. It’s pretty much the current IT-preservative. It’s safe and gentle, but even more importantl what‑it‑does skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. antioxidant | skin brightening | buffering emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing

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