Vitamin C And Collagen

Ingredients overview

Aqua, Paraffinum Liquidum, Cetearyl Alcohol, Glyceryl Stearate, Stearic Acid, Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C), Collagen, PEG-4 Stearate, Polyquaternium-22, C13-16 Isoparaffin, Laureth-25, Dmdm Hydantoin, Phenoxyethanol, Glycerin, Carbomer, Citrus Aurantium Dulcis (Orange) Oil, Sodium Hydroxide

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Highlights

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Key Ingredients

Antioxidant: Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C)

Skin brightening: Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C)

Skin-identical ingredient: Glycerin

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Ingredient name what-it-does irr., com. ID-Rating

Aqua solvent

Paraffinum Liquidum emollient, solvent 0, 0-2

Cetearyl Alcohol emollient, viscosity controlling, emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing 1, 2

Glyceryl Stearate emollient, emulsifying 0, 1-2

Stearic Acid emollient, viscosity controlling 0, 2-3

Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C) antioxidant, skin brightening, buffering Superstar

Collagen moisturizer/​humectant Goodie

PEG-4 Stearate emulsifying

Polyquaternium-22

C13-16 Isoparaffin solvent

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Ingredients explained

Aqua

ALSO-CALLED: Water | WHAT-IT-DOES: solvent

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.

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Paraffinum Liquidum

ALSO-CALLED: Mineral Oil | WHAT-IT-DOES: emollient, solvent | IRRITANCY: 0 | COMEDOGENICITY: 0-2

The famous or maybe rather infamous mineral oil. The clear oily liquid that is the "cheap by-product" of refining crude oil and the one that gets a lot of heat for its poor provenance. It is a very controversial ingredient with pros and cons and plenty of myths around it. So let us see them:

The pros of mineral oil

Trust us, if something is used for more than 100 years in cosmetic products, it has advantages. Chemically speaking, cosmetic grade mineral oil is a complex mixture of highly refined saturated hydrocarbons with C15-50 chain length. It is not merely a "by-product" but rather a specifically isolated part of petroleum that is very pure and inert.

It is a great emollient and moisturizer working mainly by occlusivity. Occlusivity is one of the basic mechanisms of how moisturizers work and it means that mineral oil sits on top of the skin and hinders so-called trans-epidermal water loss, i.e water evaporating out of your skin. When compared to heavy-duty plant oil, extra virgin coconut oil, the two of them were equally efficient and safe as moisturizers in treating xerosis, a skin condition connected to very dry skin.