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A Guide For Skincare Ingredients

by: hsg090280( 1210Feedback score is 1000 to 4,999) Top 1000 Reviewer
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Guide viewed: 3025 times Tags: Skincare | Ingredients | Inflammation | Exfoliation | Antioxidants


This is a guide to the ingredients found in skincare items.  It is directly related to my guides, but many other skincare products use these ingredients!

  1. 3-D Sculpting Complex - olive leaf extract (protects collagen), Shiitake mushrooms (prevets collagen breakdown), soy protein (repairs collagen)
  2. Aloe - soothing to the skin, repairs damage.
  3. Alpha Hydroxy Acid - Reduces the appearance of fine lines/wrinkles by removing dry, flaky, dead cells from the surface of the skin.
  4. Algae - reduces the itchy part of dry inflammed skin
  5. Apple Extract - naturally exfoliates & conditions skin (w/ mango extract).
  6. Beta Hydroxy Acid - acid extracts that chemically exfoliate the top layer of skin. They have the same effect as AHAs, but they're less irritating and come from different sources
  7. Botanical Soothing Complex - Soothes, detoxifies, and provides antioxidant/anti-inflammatory properties to the undereye area.
  8. Derma 3X Technology - enhances the skin's ability to produce and maintain its own collagen, elastin, and hydroproteins.  Recreates collagen, rebuids elastin, regenerates hydroproteins.
  9. Fennel extract - an antioxidant, protects against environmental damage
  10. Ginsing Extract - tones skin
  11. Glycerin - softens and binds moisture to the skin
  12. Glycolic Acid - exfoliator
  13. Gold Mesh Technology - patent-pending, delivers lifting, firming, and contouring results for the facial skin.
  14. Grape Seed Extract - Powerful antioxidant.
  15. Grape Seed Oil - Quickly absorbs into the skin, forms a moisture protection barrier (w/ Sunflower Seed Oil)
  16. Green apple extract - protect the skin's supporting structure from signs of aging (with grape and honeysuckle extracts)
  17. Green Tea - antioxidant
  18. Hydrolized Milk Protein - improves skin's ability to retain moisture.
  19. Hyaluronic acid - holds up to 1000 times its weight in water, holds moisture
  20. Hydroquinone - lightening agent that gently fades skin discoloration
  21. Illuminex - Vitamin rich lightening complex.
  22. Intelligent Power Repair - Encapsulated algae serum and cat's claw bark.  Plankton extract aids in cellular DNA repair.
  23. Lumin8 - Patent pending.  8 essential natural ingredients that respond to the body's changes that are caused by skin stressors.  Pomegranate, soybean, grape, cucumber & sunflower seed extracts, Pro-Vitamin B-5, hyaluronic acid, & phytol.
  24. Mallow extract - anti-inflammatory, soothes skin
  25. Mangostin Extract - patent-pending fruit extract from South Asia to help reduce the appearance of spider veins, broken capillaries, and redness.
  26. Moisture Retention Compound - helps dry skin stay supple.
  27. Oat Extract - soothes & repairs the skin, promotes rejuvination.
  28. Orange Blossom - controls oil flow & production.  Tightens pores & deep cleans.
  29. Olive leaf extract - inhibits free radical damage and helps stimulate collagen and elastin production
  30. Oxa-Acid - exfoliates, retexturizes skin.
  31. Panthenol - moisturizes skin
  32. Phytosan - stimulates cell repair and helps reverse signs of aging
  33. Pineapple Extract - natural enzyme that cleanses, reduces irritation, & accelerates tissue repair (with papaya extract)
  34. Plankton extract - repairs damaged skin, marine derived enzyme activated by visible light, helps fight DNA damage
  35. Pomogranate Extract - anti-inflamatory
  36. Portulaca - Patent pending extract that helps erase the appearance of stubborn lines while maintaining your natural expressiveness
  37. Pro-balancer - Triple protective and balancing antioxidant mix to make cells stronger and prevent cellular mutations.
  38. Pro-retinol - penetrates the skin to help increase skin elasticity & to normalize dry, parched skin. Also a critical antioxidant, used in anti-aging creams.
  39. Pure Soothe Complex - helps control oil & balances/soothes the skin
  40. Recovery Surge - Cranberry and fresh algae extracts give skin a cellular recoup-surge that reduces breakdown and creates quicker rebound.
  41. Renewal Complex.  Contains wrinkle-fighting agents - retinol, ritinyl palmitate, and beta carotene that are time-released.  Also contains Oxa-Acid (retexturizes) and Oligo-Peptide Technology (protects and enhances elasticity and firmness.
  42. Retinyl Palmitate - Vitamin A derivitive that acts as one of the most effective smoothing agents.
  43. Revitalizing Complex - Light reflectant and age-delay technology.  Contains tocopherol acetate (Vitamin E), plankton extract, hydrolized milk protein brighteners and clarifiers, and oxa-diacid (gentle exfoliator).
  44. Rosemary Extract - antioxidant that reduces the appearance of fine lines/wrinkles (with tomato extract)
  45. Rejuvi-Cell Technology - enhances cellular communication
  46. Shiitake mushrooms - prevents collagen breakdown
  47. Silica Beads - oil absorbing that can scatter light to make skin appear airbrushed
  48. Sunflower Seed extract - enhances skin's elasticity and reduces the appearance of sagging skin and wrinkles.
  49. Vitamin A - penetrates the skin to help increase skin elasticity & to normalize dry, parched skin. Also a critical vitamin & antioxidant.
  50. Vitamin B-6 - maintains soft/supple skin
  51. Vitamin C - Helps to reverse the visible signs of aging by stimulating collagen synthesis in skin (firms).  It is also a vital antioxidant. 
  52. Vitamin E - Tocopherol, an antioxidant vitamin that helps fight free radicals

Guide ID: 10000000000044410Guide created: 10/28/05 (updated 07/20/07)

 
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