Satsuma Beauty Collagen Synthesis Face Oil • 10% Vitamin C

Satsuma Beauty Collagen Synthesis Face Oil • 10% Vitamin C Satsuma Beauty Collagen Synthesis Face Oil • 10% Vitamin C ingredients explained: Caprylic/Capric (Coconut) Triglycerides, Carthamus Tinctorius (Safflower) Seed Oil, Tetrahexyldecyl Ascorbate (Vitamin C), Tocopheryl Acetate (Vitamin E), Daucus Carota (Carrot) Extract, Curcuma Longa (Turmeric) Root Extract, Paeonia Lactiflora (Peony) Root Extract, Glycyrrhiza Glabra (Licorice) Root Extract, Avena Sativa (Oatstraw) Extract, Taraxacum Officinale (Dandelion Root) Extract, Equisetum Arvense (Horsetail) Extract, Urtica Dioica (Stinging Nettle) Leaf Extract Show all ingredients by function Caprylic/Capric (Coconut) Triglycerides emollient Carthamus Tinctorius (Safflower) Seed Oil antioxidant, emollient 0, 0-2 goodie Tetrahexyldecyl Ascorbate (Vitamin C) antioxidant, skin brightening Tocopheryl Acetate (Vitamin E) antioxidant 0, 0 Daucus Carota (Carrot) Extract perfuming Curcuma Longa (Turmeric) Root Extract antioxidant, soothing, skin brightening, perfuming Paeonia Lactiflora (Peony) Root Extract Glycyrrhiza Glabra (Licorice) Root Extract soothing, skin brightening superstar Avena Sativa (Oatstraw) Extract antioxidant, soothing, emollient, abrasive/​scrub Taraxacum Officinale (Dandelion Root) Extract Equisetum Arvense (Horsetail) Extract soothing, emollient Urtica Dioica (Stinging Nettle) Leaf Extract soothing 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. The oil coming from the seeds of the yellow flowered safflower plant. Similar to other plant oils, it's loaded with nourishing and moisturizing fatty acids: it's a high linoleic acid oil (70%) and has only smaller amounts of oleic acid (11%) (this might be great for acne-prone skin). It also contains antioxidant vitamin E (44mg/100g alpha-tocopherol). Tetrahexyldecyl Ascorbate is a stable, oil-soluble form of skincare big shot Vitamin C. If you do not know, why Vitamin C is such a big deal in skincare, click here and read all about it. We are massive vitamin C fans and have written about it in excruciating detail. So now, you know that Vitamin C is great and all, but it's really unstable and gives cosmetics companies many headaches. To solve this problem they came up with vitamin C derivatives, and one of them is Tetrahexyldecyl Ascorbate (let's call it THDA in short). Expand to read more It's a really promising candidate (see below), but while reading all the goodness about it in a minute, do not forget that derivatives not only have to be absorbed into the skin but also have to be converted to pure vitamin C (ascorbic acid or AA) and the efficacy of the conversion is often unknown. In addition, vitamin C's three magic properties (antioxidant, collagen booster, skin brightener) are all properly proven in-vivo (on real people), but for the derivatives, it's mostly in-vitro studies or in the case of THDA, it's in-vitro and done by an ingredient supplier. With this context in mind let's see what THDA might be able to do. First, it is stable (if pH < 5), easy to formulate, and a joy to work with for a cosmetic chemist. Second, because it's oil-soluble, its skin penetration abilities seem to be great. So great in fact, that it surpasses the penetration of pure vitamin C threefold at the same concentration and it penetrates successfully into the deeper layers of the skin (that is usually important to do some anti-aging work). There is also in-vitro data showing that it converts to AA in the skin. Third, THDA seems to have all three magic abilities of pure vitamin C: it gives antioxidant protection from both UVB and UVA rays, it increases collagen synthesis (even more than AA) and it has a skin brightening effect by reducing melanogenesis by more than 80% in human melanoma cell cultures. So this all sounds really great, but these are only in-vitro results at this point. We could find Tetrahexyldecyl Ascorbate mentioned only in one published in-vivo study that examined the anti-aging properties of a silicone formula containing 10% AA and 7% THDA. The authors theorized that the 10% AA is released slowly from the silicon delivery system and probabl what‑it‑does antioxidant | emollient irritancy, com. antioxidant | skin brightening antioxidant | soothing | skin brightening | perfuming soothing | skin brightening antioxidant | soothing | emollient | abrasive/scrub soothing | emollient

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