XHC Biotin & Collagen Conditioner

XHC Biotin & Collagen Conditioner XHC Biotin & Collagen Conditioner ingredients explained: Aqua/Water/Eau, Cetearyl Alcohol, Cetyl Alcohol, Behentrimonium Chloride, Biotin, Hydrolyzed Collagen, Hydrolyzed Wheat Protein, Ethyltrimonium Chloride Methacrylate/Hydrolyzed Wheat Protein Copolymer, Glycerin, PPG-3 Benzyl Ether Myristate, Dimethicone, Polyquaternium-47, Steareth-20, Disodium EDTA, Isopropyl Alcohol, Citric Acid, Sodium Hydroxide, Sodium Benzoate, Pentaerythrityl Tetra-Di-T-Butyl Hydroxyhydrocinnamate, Phenoxyethanol, Benzyl Alcohol, Potassium Sorbate, Sodium Chloride, Sodium Carbonate, Parfum/Fragrance, Hexyl Cinnamal Show all ingredients by function Aqua/Water/Eau solvent Cetearyl Alcohol emollient, viscosity controlling, emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing 1, 2 Cetyl Alcohol emollient, viscosity controlling 2, 2 Behentrimonium Chloride preservative Biotin Hydrolyzed Collagen emollient, moisturizer/​humectant goodie Hydrolyzed Wheat Protein moisturizer/​humectant Ethyltrimonium Chloride Methacrylate/Hydrolyzed Wheat Protein Copolymer Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar PPG-3 Benzyl Ether Myristate emollient, solvent Dimethicone emollient 0, 1 Polyquaternium-47 Steareth-20 emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing Disodium EDTA chelating Isopropyl Alcohol solvent, viscosity controlling, perfuming icky Citric Acid buffering Sodium Hydroxide Sodium Benzoate Pentaerythrityl Tetra-Di-T-Butyl Hydroxyhydrocinnamate antioxidant, preservative Phenoxyethanol Benzyl Alcohol preservative, perfuming, solvent, viscosity controlling Potassium Sorbate Sodium Chloride viscosity controlling Sodium Carbonate Parfum/Fragrance perfuming Hexyl Cinnamal 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. An extremely common multitasker ingredient that gives your skin a nice soft feel (emollient) and gives body to creams and lotions. It also helps to stabilize oil-water mixes (emulsions), though it does not function as an emulsifier in itself. Its typical use level in most cream type formulas is 2-3%. It’s a so-called fatty alcohol, a mix of cetyl and stearyl alcohol, other two emollient fatty alcohols. Though chemically speaking, it is alcohol (as in, it has an -OH group in its molecule), its properties are totally different from the properties of low molecular weight or drying alcohols such as denat. alcohol. Fatty alcohols have a long oil-soluble (and thus emollient) tail part that makes them absolutely non-drying and non-irritating and are totally ok for the skin. 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. Also called vitamin H, biotin is the main component of many enzymes in our body. A nice ingredient to take as a supplement for stronger nails and hair. When you do not take it as a supplement its effects are a bit more questionable but according to manufacturer info it can smooth the skin and strengthen the hair. 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 what‑it‑does emollient | viscosity controlling | emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing irritancy, com. emollient | viscosity controlling emollient | moisturizer/humectant moisturizer/humectant skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant emollient | solvent emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing solvent | viscosity controlling | perfuming antioxidant | preservative preservative | perfuming | solvent | viscosity controlling

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