Glycolic Acid Face Peel from Skintastic with anti-aging skincare ingredients for youthful skin

Decode The Ingredients of Skintastics 30% Glycolic Acid Face Peel

Skintastic Cosmeceuticals Skintastic 30% Glycolic Acid Face Peel For Wrinkles - Anti-aging
Skintastic 30% Glycolic Acid Face Peel For Wrinkles - Anti-aging 
Hydrates, plumps & reduces fine lines & wrinkles, fades dark spots, hyperpigmentation, sunspots, scars & blemishes, treats acne, boosts collagen, brightens & improves skin tone & texture to achieve younger looking skin 

Highlights

#alcohol-free #fragrance & essentialoil-free

Key Ingredients

Skintastic Cosmeceuticals Skintastic 30% Glycolic Acid Face Peel For Wrinkles - Anti-aging

Ingredients explained

 This ingredient name is not according to the INCI-standard. :( What, why?!

Glycolic Acid - superstar
What-it-does: exfoliant, buffering
  • It’s the most researched AHA with the most proven skin benefits
  • It gently lifts off dead skin cells to reveal newer, fresher, smoother skin
  • It can help skin’s own collagen production that results in firmer, younger skin
  • It can fade brown spots caused by sun damage or PIH
  • Choose a product where you know the concentration and pH value because these two greatly influence effectiveness
  • Don’t forget to use your sunscreen (in any case but especially so next to an AHA product)
  • Slight stinging or burning with a stronger AHA product is normal
  • If your skin is very sensitive, rosacea prone choose rather a BHA or PHA product
Read all the geeky details about Glycolic Acid here >>

 

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Deionized Water (1.5%)
Also-called: Aqua;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. 

This is a trade name with the following INCI listing: Phenoxyethanol, Caprylyl Glycol, Sorbic Acid
What-it-does: preservative

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. 

It’s a handy multi-tasking ingredient that gives the skin a nice, soft feel. At the same time, it also boosts the effectiveness of other preservatives, such as the nowadays super commonly used phenoxyethanol

The blend of these two (caprylyl glycol + phenoxyethanol) is called Optiphen, which not only helps to keep your cosmetics free from nasty things for a long time but also gives a good feel to the finished product. It's a popular duo.

What-it-does: preservative

A mild, natural preservative that usually comes to the formula together with its other mild preservative friends, such as Benzoic Acid and/or Dehydroacetic Acid. Btw, it's also used as a food preservative.

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