Cos De Baha Vitamin C
Vitamin C Serum
Get glowy skin with vitamin c and panthenol.
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Ingredients overview
Propanediol(Hydration, Non Gmo Corn), *Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Extract, Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C/Antioxidant), 1,2-Hexanediol(Prevent Oxidation), Glycerin (Hydration/Skin Replenishing/Vegetable), Arginine(Wound Healing/Vegetable), Sodium Hyaluronate (Hydration/Skin Replenishing), *Hamamelis Virginiana(Witch Hazel) Leaf Extract, *Rosmarinus Officinalis (Rosemary) Extract, *Eucalyptus Globulus Leaf Extract, *Thymus Vulgaris (Thyme) Extract, Aspalathus Linearis Extract, Disodium EDTA
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| Ingredient name | what-it-does | irr., com. | ID-Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Propanediol(Hydration, Non Gmo Corn) | solvent, moisturizer/humectant | ||
| *Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Extract | soothing, emollient, moisturizer/humectant | goodie | |
| Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C/Antioxidant) | antioxidant, skin brightening, buffering | superstar | |
| 1,2-Hexanediol(Prevent Oxidation) | solvent | ||
| Glycerin (Hydration/Skin Replenishing/Vegetable) | skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/humectant | 0, 0 | superstar |
| Arginine(Wound Healing/Vegetable) | skin-identical ingredient | goodie | |
| Sodium Hyaluronate (Hydration/Skin Replenishing) | skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/humectant | 0, 0 | goodie |
| *Hamamelis Virginiana(Witch Hazel) Leaf Extract | soothing, antimicrobial/antibacterial | goodie | |
| *Rosmarinus Officinalis (Rosemary) Extract | antimicrobial/antibacterial | ||
| *Eucalyptus Globulus Leaf Extract | perfuming | ||
| *Thymus Vulgaris (Thyme) Extract | perfuming | ||
| Aspalathus Linearis Extract | |||
| Disodium EDTA | chelating |
Cos De BAHA Vitamin C Serum
Ingredients explainedPropanediol is a natural alternative for the often used and often bad-mouthed propylene glycol. It's produced sustainably from corn sugar and it's Ecocert approved.
It's quite a multi-tasker: can be used to improve skin moisturization, as a solvent, to boost preservative efficacy or to influence the sensory properties of the end formula.
- Works best between a concentration of 5-20%
- Boosts the skin's own collagen production
- Fades pigmentation and brown spots
- If used under sunscreen it boosts its UV protection
- Extremely unstable and oxidizes very easily in presence of light or air
- Stable in solutions with water only if pH is less than 3.5 or in waterless formulations
- Vit E + C work in synergy and provide superb photoprotection
- Ferulic acid doubles the photoprotection effect of Vit C+E and helps to stabilize Vit C
- Potent Vit. C serums might cause a slight tingling on sensitive skin
Read all the geeky details about Ascorbic Acid here >>
A really multi-functional helper ingredient that can do several things in a skincare product: it can bring a soft and pleasant feel to the formula, it can act as a humectant and emollient, it can be a solvent for some other ingredients (for example it can help to stabilize perfumes in watery products) and it can also help to disperse pigments more evenly in makeup products. And that is still not all: it can also boost the antimicrobial activity of preservatives.
- 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 at higher concentrations up to 20-40% (around 10% is a good usability-effectiveness sweet spot)
- High-glycerin moisturizers are awesome for treating severely dry skin
Read all the geeky details about Glycerin here >>
A semi-essential (infants cannot synthesize it, but adults can) amino acid that is one of the primary building blocks of hair keratin and skin collagen. It's a natural moisturizing factor, a skin hydrator and might also help to speed up wound healing.
Arginine usually has a positive charge (cationic) that makes it substantive to skin and hair (those are more negatively charged surfaces) and an excellent film former. Thanks to the positive charge, it also creates a complex with AHAs (AHAs like to lose a hydrogen ion and be negatively charged, so the positive and the negative ions attract each other) that causes a "time-release AHA effect" and reduces the irritation associated with AHAs.
It's the - sodium form - cousin of the famous NMF, hyaluronic acid (HA). If HA does not tell you anything we have a super detailed, geeky explanation about it here. The TL; DR version of HA is that it's a huge polymer (big molecule from repeated subunits) found in the skin that acts as a sponge helping the skin to hold onto water, being plump and elastic. HA is famous for its crazy water holding capacity as it can bind up to 1000 times its own weight in water.
As far as skincare goes, sodium hyaluronate and hyaluronic acid are pretty much the same and the two names are used interchangeably. As cosmetic chemist kindofstephen writes on reddit "sodium hyaluronate disassociates into hyaluronic acid molecule and a sodium atom in solution".
In spite of this, if you search for "hyaluronic acid vs sodium hyaluronate" you will find on multiple places that sodium hyaluronate is smaller and can penetrate the skin better. Chemically, this is definitely not true, as the two forms are almost the same, both are polymers and the subunits can be repeated in both forms as much as you like. (We also checked Prospector for sodium hyaluronate versions actually used in cosmetic products and found that the most common molecular weight was 1.5-1.8 million Da that absolutely counts as high molecular weight).
What seems to be a true difference, though, is that the salt form is more stable, easier to formulate and cheaper so it pops up more often on the ingredient lists.
If you wanna become a real HA-and-the-skin expert you can read way more about the topic at hyaluronic acid (including penetration-questions, differences between high and low molecular weight versions and a bunch of references to scientific literature).
The extract created from the leaves of the hazelnut-bush-like-magic-tree, commonly called Witch Hazel. We have gone into detail about Witch Hazel in cosmetic products here (it's astringent, soothing, antioxidant and antibacterial), but the important part to know about the leaves is that they contain much, much less active components than the bark. In fact, it contains hardly any tannins (only 0.04%) and the most active component in the leaves is the antibacterial gallic acid.
Too many tannins can be very astringent and irritating to the skin, so this is not necessarily a bad thing. Even the small amount of active components in the leaves seem to give it nice soothing, astringent, and antibacterial properties.
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Also-called: Thyme;Thymus Vulgaris Extract | What-it-does: perfuming
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Super common little helper ingredient thathelps products to remain nice and stable for a longer time. It does so by neutralizing the metal ions in the formula (that usually get into there from water) that would otherwise cause some not so nice changes.
It is typically used in tiny amounts, around 0.1% or less.
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