AHC Hydrating Aqualuronic Toner For Face Korean Skincare 150 ml

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This pioneering Korean beauty brand is renowned for its premium ingredients, advanced technologies and luxuriously beautiful skin care products. 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! The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Ceramides make up about 50% of the goopy stuff that's between our skin cells and play a super important role in having a healthy skin barrier and keeping the skin hydrated. It provides intense hydration to your skin with the star ingredient - hyaluronic acid, which can be penetrated to your skin quickly.

They are good friends because ethylhexylglycerin can boost the effectiveness of phenoxyethanol (and other preservatives) and as an added bonus it feels nice on the skin too. It also contains antioxidant components such as carotenoids, coumarins, limonoids, and flavonoids that might be useful for the skin to protect itself from UV caused damages. It has a very light texture - ideal for layering, and packs a punch in terms of nourishing, soothing and softening the skin. One more thing: the water used in cosmetics is purified and deionized (it means that almost all of the mineral ions inside it is removed).Naturally, I was thrilled to receive their new Youth Focus range, which uses Pro Retinal 11x, meaning that it has an 11 times faster conversion rate than retinol. Acting as the first step in the AHC Pro Retinal 11x routine, the lightweight formula helps to promote uniform texture and a youthful glow. The generic term for nice smelling stuff put into cosmetic products so that the end product also smells nice. 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. High molecular weight hyaluronic acid helps minimize water loss on the skin's surface to protect from dryness.

Panthenol (vitamin B5) and hyaluronic acid intensively supply moisture to the skin, making it shiny.

It’s definitely a smart thing to avoid with sensitive skin (and fragrance of any type - natural is just as allergic as synthetic, if not worse! Ingredients: aqua, glycerin, dipropylene glycol, propanediol, pentylene glycol, butylene glycol, acrylates/c10-30 alkyl acrylate crosspolymer, methylpropanediol, raffinose, hydroxyacetophenone, tromethamine, ethylhexylglycerin, adenosine, hydrogenated lecithin, disodium edta, eclipta prostrata leaf extract, laminaria japonica extract, sodium polyacrylate, pvm/ma copolymer, centella asiatica extract, ficus carica fruit extract, avena sativa kernel extract, cynara scolymus leaf extract, polyquaternium-51, beta-glucan, 1,2-hexanediol, camellia sinensis leaf water, fructooligosaccharides, melia azadirachta flower extract, ceramide np, melia azadirachta leaf extract, curcuma longa root extract, ocimum sanctum leaf extract, macadamia ternifolia seed oil, caprylic/capric triglyceride, hydroxypropyl cyclodextrin, hydrolyzed hyaluronic acid, corallina officinalis extract, cholesterol, tocopherol, peg-5 rapeseed sterol, silica, brassica campestris sterols, retinal, carnosine, ceteth-3, ceteth-5, tocopheryl acetate, aluminum/magnesium hydroxide stearate, sucrose distearate, potassium cetyl phosphate, pentaerythrityl tetra-di-t-butyl hydroxyhydrocinnamate, bisabolol, caprylyl glycol, cetyl alcohol, glycyrrhiza glabra root extract, acetyl hexapeptide-8. 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. When I was first introduced to AHC (a K-Beauty brand), I fell completely head over heels for it, see posts here and here. Gently apply the toner to the facial contours and then pat skin lightly with the fingertips until fully absorbed for an instant skin glow.

If at any time you would like to opt out from marketing, you can visit the Privacy Preferences page and select the relevant options. The BeautyBrains blog made a fantastic article about ceramides and they have listed a couple of examples about studies showing that ceramides - especially when used in certain ratios with cholesterol and fatty acids - do hydrate the skin and can help to repair the skin barrier. Innovative skin care brand, AHC was originally developed in Seoul, Korea for high-end aesthetic skin care clinics. A kind of polymer (big molecule from repeated subunits) that helps to create beautiful gel-like textures. It’s a nice ingredient that just feels good on the skin, is super well tolerated by every skin type and easy to formulate with.As this is a Christmas present for my wife, which she is yet to receive, I thought I would give it a go from a mans perspective. If you have never used a retinoid product, or have ultra sensitive skin, this could be your introduction to the ingredient, but for my skin, this alone won't make any significant difference.