Other tasks include helping the product to absorb faster and deeper into the skin (penetration enhancer), making the product spread nicely over the skin (slip agent), and attracting water (humectant) into the skin. It contains a complex of ingredients, Protein, Glycolic Acid and antioxidants, which help to balance skin tone (hyperpigmentation), heal acne marks, increase collagen and elastin production. It reduces the negative effects of ultraviolet radiation, soothes the skin and helps it cope with external irritants. Thanks to its specific texture, it goes into the deep layers of the skin, acts in a very short time and the ingredients are quickly absorbed into the skin.

This has been one of my go-to serums whenever my skin is irritated, it’s so reparative and hydrating (and stringy)! It is also a natural osmoprotectant, meaning that it attracts water away from the protein surface and thus protects them from denaturation and increases their thermodynamic stability.Panax Ginseng Root Extract: An ingredient known from Korean traditional medicine that nourishes the skin, has antioxidant properties and stimulates blood circulation in skin. Many snail based skincare have hit the market since, including Coxir’s entire Black Snail Collagen line that includes everything from toner to eye cream. The recipient will be held responsible for international shipments which may be subject to import duties and taxes.

An old study actually compared the collagen production effect of copper peptide, vitamin c, and retinol, and yep, copper peptide won! 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. BUT, if you’re curious about copper peptides, the Coxir Black Snail Collagen Serum is one of the most affordable copper peptide serums I could find. However, the emulsion was definitely nourishing and works for oily skin, despite that this is best suited for dry skin. Since acrylic acid is dangerous due to its ability to absorb into the skin (since it’s small), when you chain them together into a polymer (which is big), this danger is no longer significant.

A Spanish radiation oncologist, Rafael Abad Iglesias MD discovered for the first time that snail mucin can be used to treat radiation dermatitis (skin irritation caused by radiotherapy, a form of cancer treatment). Overview The Black Snail Collagen Serum containing the ingredients of snail and collagen for protecting skin from dryness by maintaining moisture level and providing luminance to skin. The big bottle means that I can use it on the body too, and is excellent for sun burns (not me, the husband, since he’s lazy with sunscreen).

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 inclusion of snail mucin ensures sustained hydration and protection against external irritants, promoting overall skin health and a rejuvenated complexion. The yeast extract itself is a silky clear liquid that has some great moisturizing, skin protecting and film-forming properties on the skin.It usually comes to the formula combined with emollients (such as C13-14 Isoparaffin, Isohexadecane, Isononyl Isononanoate or Squalane) and can be used as an emulsifier and/or thickener to produce milky gel emulsions with a soft and non-tacky skin feel. Like if my skin was feeling irritated from over-exfoliating, this didn’t do little to help calm my skin down.

All in all, both anecdotal and scientific evidence show that Pitera is a skin goodie so if you are into essences and yeast-derived fermentations, it's definitely worth a try. It also works as a thickening agent (remember, it is a carbomer type of molecule), and can provide the skin with a nice slippery feel. New: A brand-new, unused, unopened and undamaged item in original retail packaging (where packaging . Based on a manufacturer's data, the whole, soluble collagen has an average molecular weight of 300 000 Da, while this chopped up mixture has an average MW of 12 000 Da (still pretty big). Korean-Skincare delivers your package quickly, safely and 6 days a week from our own warehouse in the Netherlands.Exactly what it sounds: nice smelling stuff put into cosmetic products so that the end product also smells nice. To keep my content accurate and trustworthy, I rely on peer-reviewed studies, articles from reputable academic institutions, and quotes from certified healthcare professionals to back my claims. My first introduction to snail in skincare is with the famous Cosrx Snail Mucin Essence, and I was instantly sold by how hydrating and soothing it was on the skin. 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. Composed of well-known snail slime, collagen and antioxidant ingredients that will fill your skin with benefits such as blurring wrinkles and expression lines, moisturising, improving elasticity and firmness, unifying the skin tone and illuminating it.