Skin Assistant Collagen + Hyaluronic Acid Day Cream

Skin Assistant Collagen + Hyaluronic Acid Day Cream Skin Assistant Collagen + Hyaluronic Acid Day Cream ingredients explained: Water (Aqua), Carthamus Tinctorius (Safflower) Seed Oil, Cetyl Alcohol, Glycol Stearate, Stearic Acid, Glycerin, Sodium Benzoate, Phenoxyethanol, Sodium Hydroxide, Olea Europaea Oil (Olive), Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter, Sodium Hyaluronate, Collagen Show all ingredients by function Water (Aqua) solvent Carthamus Tinctorius (Safflower) Seed Oil antioxidant, emollient 0, 0-2 goodie Cetyl Alcohol emollient, viscosity controlling 2, 2 Glycol Stearate emollient, emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing 0, 0 Stearic Acid 0, 2-3 Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant superstar Sodium Benzoate preservative Phenoxyethanol Sodium Hydroxide buffering Olea Europaea Oil (Olive) Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter emollient Sodium Hyaluronate Collagen moisturizer/​humectant 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. 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). A so-called fatty (the good, non-drying kind of) alcohol that does all kinds of things in a skincare product: it makes your skin feel smooth and nice (emollient), helps to thicken up products and also helps water and oil to blend (emulsifier). Can be derived from coconut or palm kernel oil. We don't have description for this ingredient yet. A common multi-tasker fatty acid. It makes your skin feel nice and smooth (emollient), gives body to cream type products and helps to stabilize water and oil mixes (aka emulsions). 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 helper ingredient that helps to make the products stay nice longer, aka preservative. It works mainly against fungi. It’s pH dependent and works best at acidic pH levels (3-5). It’s not strong enough to be used in itself so it’s always combined with something else, often with potassium sorbate. It’s pretty much the current IT-preservative. It’s safe and gentle, but even more importantly, it’s not a feared-by-everyone-mostly-without-scientific-reason paraben. It’s not something new: it was introduced around 1950 and today it can be used up to 1% worldwide. It can be found in nature - in green tea - but the version used in cosmetics is synthetic. Other than having a good safety profile and being quite gentle to the skin it has some other advantages too. It can be used in many types of formulations as it has great thermal stability (can be heated up to 85°C) and works on a wide range of pH levels (ph 3-10). It’s often used together with ethylhexylglycerin as it ni what‑it‑does antioxidant | emollient irritancy, com. emollient | viscosity controlling emollient | emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant moisturizer/humectant

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