
Ascorbyl Tetraisopalmitate Solution 20% In Vitamin F
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Ingredient name | what-it-does | irr., com. | ID-Rating |
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Coconut Alkanes | emollient, solvent | ||
Tetrahexyldecyl Ascorbate | antioxidant, skin brightening | goodie | |
Ethyl Linoleate | emollient, perfuming | ||
Coco-Caprylate/Caprate | emollient | ||
Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Oil | emollient | 0, 0-2 | goodie |
Solanum Lycopersicum (Tomato) Fruit Extract | antioxidant | ||
Squalane | skin-identical ingredient, emollient | 0, 1 | goodie |
The Ordinary Ascorbyl Tetraisopalmitate Solution 20% In Vitamin FIngredients explained
Coconut Alkanes is a volatile (something that does not absorb into the skin but evaporates from it), naturally derived vegetable alkane coming from renewable sources. It is a light, oily liquid that works as an emollient and gives a smooth skin feel.
It's often combined with another emollient called Coco-Caprylate/Caprate and the two together can serve as a great replacement for some volatile silicones, like Cyclopentasiloxane.
Tetrahexyldecyl Ascorbate is a stable, oil-soluble form of skincare big shot Vitamin C. If you do not know, why Vitamin C is such a big deal in skincare, click here and read all about it. We are massive vitamin C fans and have written about it in excruciating detail.
So now, you know that Vitamin C is great and all, but it's really unstable and gives cosmetics companies many headaches. To solve this problem they came up with vitamin C derivatives, and one of them is Tetrahexyldecyl Ascorbate (let's call it ATIP in short).
A type of oil soluble vitamin F that is used as an emollient. Read more at ethyl oleate.
A light emollient ester (C8-10 fatty acids connected to C12-18 fatty alcohols) that absorbs quickly and leaves a dry but silky finish on the skin. In terms of skin feel, it is similar to Dicaprylyl Carbonate, another commonly used light emollient.
Jojoba is a drought resistant evergreen shrub native to South-western North America. It's known and grown for jojoba oil, the golden yellow liquid coming from the seeds (about 50% of the weight of the seeds will be oil).
At first glance, it seems like your average emollient plant oil: it looks like an oil and it's nourishing and moisturizing to the skin but if we dig a bit deeper, it turns out that jojoba oil is really special and unique: technically - or rather chemically - it's not an oil but a wax ester (and calling it an oil is kind of sloppy).
We don't have description for this ingredient yet.
It seems to us that squalane is in fashion and there is a reason for it. Chemically speaking, it is a saturated (no double bonds) hydrocarbon (a molecule consisting only of carbon and hydrogen), meaning that it's a nice and stable oily liquid with a long shelf life.
It occurs naturally in certain fish and plant oils (e.g. olive), and in the sebum (the oily stuff our skin produces) of the human skin. As f.c. puts it in his awesome blog post, squalane's main things are "emolliency, surface occlusion, and TEWL prevention all with extreme cosmetic elegance". In other words, it's a superb moisturizer that makes your skin nice and smooth, without being heavy or greasy.
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what‑it‑does | emollient | solvent |
what‑it‑does | antioxidant | skin brightening |
what‑it‑does | emollient | perfuming |
what‑it‑does | emollient |
what‑it‑does | emollient |
irritancy, com. | 0, 0-2 |
what‑it‑does | antioxidant |
what‑it‑does | skin-identical ingredient | emollient |
irritancy, com. | 0, 1 |