THE BODY SHOP Drops Youth Essence Cream, 160 ml

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Probably that’s why citric acid is usually not used as an exfoliant but more as a helper ingredient in small amounts to adjust the pH of a formulation. It’s a solid white stuff that’s very alkaline and used in small amounts to adjust the pH of the product and make it just right. In a 2001 worldwide study with 178 people with known sensitization to fragrances citronellol tested positive in 5.

It is also a natural osmoprotectant, meaning that it attracts water away from the protein surface and thusprotects them from denaturation and increases their thermodynamic stability.

It's quite a multi-tasker: can be used to improve skin moisturization, as a solvent, to boost preservative efficacyor to influence the sensory properties of the end formula. The generic term for nice smelling stuff put into cosmetic products so that the end product also smells nice. It does smellnice but the problemis that it oxidizes on air exposure and the resulting stuff is not good for the skin. As far as skincare goes, sodium hyaluronate and hyaluronic acid are pretty much the same and the two names are used interchangeably.

Its main job is to be a solvent, but it has also very good antimicrobial properties andacts as a true preservative booster. But according to a comparative study done in 1995, citric acid has less skin improving magic properties than glycolic or lactic acid. The point of both drying methods is to make waterevaporate from the juice and leave just the "useful" components behind.Its special thing is that it also acts as a biostatic and fungistatic agent and remains active even at high pH. 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.

A chelating agent that helps to preserve cosmetic products by neutralizing the metal ions (especially iron) in the formula (that usually get into there from water). Sodium hydroxide in itselfis a potent skin irritant, but once it's reacted (as it is usually in skin care products, like exfoliants) it is totallyharmless. Fragrance in the US and parfum in the EU is a generic term on the ingredient list that is made up of 30 to 50 chemicals on average (but it can have as much as 200 components! It also gives sensorial benefits to the formulaand when used in cleansers, it helps to make them milder and gentler.After six weeks, the cheeks were also lifted and the crow’s feet wrinkles were smoothed out (surface -11% up to -75%).