PUREDERM Green Tea Collagen Mask

PUREDERM Green Tea Collagen Mask PUREDERM Green Tea Collagen Mask ingredients explained: Aqua, Glycerin, PEG/PPG-17/6 Copolymer, Hydrolyzed Collagen, Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract, Hamamelis Virginiana (Witch Hazel) Water, Illicium Verum (Anise) Fruit Extract, Natto Gum, PEG-14M, Hydroxyethylcellulose, Panthenol, Xanthan Gum, Disodium EDTA, Allantoin, Erythritol, Dipotassium Glycyrrhizate, PEG-60 Hydrogenated Castor Oil, Tocopheryl Acetate, Hydroxyacetophenone, 1,2-Hexanediol, Parfum Show all ingredients by function Aqua solvent Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar PEG/PPG-17/6 Copolymer emollient, solvent Hydrolyzed Collagen emollient, moisturizer/​humectant goodie Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract antioxidant, soothing Hamamelis Virginiana (Witch Hazel) Water soothing Illicium Verum (Anise) Fruit Extract perfuming Natto Gum PEG-14M viscosity controlling Hydroxyethylcellulose Panthenol soothing, moisturizer/​humectant Xanthan Gum Disodium EDTA chelating Allantoin Erythritol moisturizer/​humectant Dipotassium Glycyrrhizate PEG-60 Hydrogenated Castor Oil emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing Tocopheryl Acetate antioxidant Hydroxyacetophenone antioxidant, preservative 1,2-Hexanediol Parfum 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 A water-loving emollient and humectant that gives a nice skin feel and slip to the product. It works well with facial toners. 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 >> Green tea is one of the most researched natural ingredients The active parts are called polyphenols, or more precisely catechins (EGCG being the most abundant and most active catechin) There can be huge quality differences between green tea extracts. The good ones contain 50-90% catechins (and often make the product brown and give it a distinctive smell) Green tea is proven to be a great antioxidant, UV protectant, anti-inflammatory, anticarcinogenic and antimicrobial Because of these awesome propert what‑it‑does skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. emollient | solvent emollient | moisturizer/humectant antioxidant | soothing soothing | moisturizer/humectant moisturizer/humectant emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing antioxidant | preservative

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