Balance Me Hyaluronic Plumping Primer

Balance Me Hyaluronic Plumping Primer

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Infused with Acacia Gum Complex to plump the skin, reducing the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles with a skin-tightening effect.

Aqua (Water) ,
Glycerin ,
Coco-Caprylate ,
Distarch Phosphate¹ ,
Cetearyl Alcohol ,
Methylheptyl Isostearate¹ ,
Acacia Senegal Gum ,
Glyceryl Stearate ,
Cetearyl Glucoside ,

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Acmella Oleracea Extract ,
Hydrolyzed Hyaluronic Acid ,
Sodium Hyaluronate ,
Hydrolyzed Rhizobian Gum ,
Rubus Chamaemorus (Cloudberry) Seed Oil ,
Rosa Centifolia (Rose Absolute) Flower Oil² ,
Citrus Aurantium (Neroli) Flower Oil² ,
Nardostachys Jatamansi (Spikenard) Root Oil² ,
Anthemis Nobilis (Roman Chamomile) Flower Oil² ,
Achillea Millefolium (Yarrow) Flower/Leaf/Stem Oil² ,
Citrus Aurantium Bergamia (Bergamot) Fruit Oil² ,
Pelargonium Roseum (Rose Geranium) Leaf Oil² ,
Rubus Fruticosus (Blackberry) Leaf Extract ,
Rosa Canina (Rosehip) Fruit Oil ,
Aleurites Moluccana (Kukui) Seed Oil ,
Tocopherol (Vitamin E) ,
Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea Butter)¹ ,
Aloe Barbadensis (Aloe Vera) Leaf Juice¹ ,
Xanthan Gum ,
Sodium Stearoyl Lactylate¹ ,
Maltodextrin ,
Chondrus Crispus Powder ,
Dehydroacetic Acid ,
Benzyl Alcohol ,
Farnesol³ ,
Geraniol³ ,
Linalool³ ,
Limonene³ ,
Citronellol³
(¹) certified organic ingredient, (²) natural pure essential oil, (³) naturally occurring in essential oils.

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Antioxidant :
Tocopherol (Vitamin E)

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Balance Me Hyaluronic Plumping Primer
Also-called: Water |
What-it-does:
solvent

Also-called: Glycerol |
What-it-does:
skin-identical ingredient , moisturizer/humectant
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Irritancy:
0

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Comedogenicity:
0

What-it-does:
absorbent/mattifier

What-it-does:
emollient , viscosity controlling , emulsifying , emulsion stabilising , surfactant/cleansing
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Irritancy:
1

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Comedogenicity:
2

What-it-does:
emollient , emulsifying
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Irritancy:
0

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Comedogenicity:
1-2

What-it-does:
emulsifying , surfactant/cleansing

Also-called: Ethanol |
What-it-does:
antimicrobial/antibacterial , solvent , viscosity controlling , astringent

What-it-does:
moisturizer/humectant

What-it-does:
skin-identical ingredient , moisturizer/humectant
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Irritancy:
0

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Comedogenicity:
0

Also-called: Roman Chamomile Flower Oil;Anthemis Nobilis Flower Oil |
What-it-does:
soothing , perfuming

Also-called: Bergamot Fruit Oil;Citrus Aurantium Bergamia Fruit Oil |
What-it-does:
perfuming

Also-called: Rosehip Oil |
What-it-does:
emollient

Also-called: Kukui Nut Oil |
What-it-does:
soothing , emollient

Also-called: Vitamin E |
What-it-does:
antioxidant
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Irritancy:
0-3

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Comedogenicity:
0-3

Also-called: Shea Butter;Butyrospermum Parkii Butter |
What-it-does:
emollient , viscosity controlling

Also-called: Aloe Vera;Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice |
What-it-does:
soothing , moisturizer/humectant

What-it-does:
viscosity controlling , emulsion stabilising

What-it-does:
absorbent/mattifier , emulsion stabilising

What-it-does:
abrasive/scrub

Also-called: Geogard 111A |
What-it-does:
preservative

What-it-does:
preservative , perfuming , solvent , viscosity controlling

What-it-does:
perfuming , deodorant

What-it-does:
perfuming , deodorant

What-it-does:
perfuming , solvent , deodorant

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Normal (well kind of - it's purified and deionized) water. Usually the main solvent in cosmetic products.
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A real oldie but a goodie. Great natural moisturizer and skin-identical ingredient that plays an important role in skin hydration and general skin health.
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A fast-spreading emollient oil that has a similar skin feel to volatile silicones.
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A super common multitasker ingredient that gives your skin a nice soft feel (emollient) and gives body to creams.
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A natural polymer (big molecules from repeated subunits) that is harvested from the Acacia tree in the sub-Saharan region in Africa. It's a great thickening and binding agent.
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Waxy, white, solid stuff that helps water and oil to mix together and leaves the skin feeling soft and smooth.
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A sugar based emulsifier that's especially great for low viscosity lotions or even sprays.
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Simple alcohol that's a great solvent, penetration enhancer, creates cosmetically elegant, light formulas, great astringent, and antimicrobial. In large amount can be very drying.
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Hydrolyzed Hyaluronic Acid is a low molecular weight, chemically chopped up version of the naturally big molecule and current IT-moisturizer, Hyaluronic Acid (HA). The TL;
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It's the salt form of famous humectant and natural moisturizing factor, hyaluronic acid. It can bind huge amounts of water and it's pretty much the current IT-moisturizer.
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The essential oil coming from the second most common type of chamomile, the Roman Chamomile. It also contains the biologically active anti-inflammatory components, bisabolol, and chamazulene, but less than the more commonly used German Chamomile.
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The essential oil coming from the fruit (probably the rind) of the bergamot orange. It's a common top note in perfumes and contains (among others) fragrant compounds limonene (37%), linalyl acetate (30%) and linalool (8.8%).

A well-known issue with bergamot oil (apart from the fragrance allergens) is that it contains phototoxic
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Though it says fruit oil in its name, the rosehip fruit contains the seeds that contain the oil. So this one is the same as Rosa Canina Seed Oil, or Rosehip Oil, known for its high omega fatty acid content (linoleic acid - 51%, linolenic acid - 19% and oleic acid - 20%) and skin-regenerative properties.
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Kukui nut oil coming from Hawaii that is traditionally used to soothe sunburn and other inflammations. It's also a great moisturizing oil rich in essential fatty acids linoleic and linolenic.
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Pure Vitamin E. Great antioxidant that gives significant photoprotection against UVB rays. Works in synergy with Vitamin C.
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Shea butter that's considered to be a magic moisturizer and emollient. It is also soothing and rich in antioxidants.
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The famous aloe vera. A great moisturizer and anti-inflammatory ingredient that also helps wound healing and skin regeneration.
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A super commonly used thickener and emulsion stabilizer.
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It's a little helper ingredient coming from corn, rice or potato starch that can help to keep skin mat (absorbent), to stabilise emulsions, and to keep the product together (binding).

A preservative that works mainly against fungi and has only milder effect against bacteria. Popular in natural products.
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It's one of those things that help your cosmetics not to go wrong too soon, aka a preservative. It can be naturally found in fruits and teas but can also be made synthetically.

No matter the origin, in small amounts (up to 1%) it’s a nice, gentle preservative.
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With a sweet, light and floral scent, Farnesol is a popular fragrancing ingredient to make your cosmetics that bit nicer to use. It starts its life as a colorless liquid that can either be synthetically created or extracted from loads of plants like citronella, neroli, ylang-ylang, and tuberose.The reason we list it as icky is because Farnesol is one of the “
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A common fragrance ingredient that smells like rose and can be found in rose oil.
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A super common fragrance ingredient that can be found among others in lavender, ylang-ylang, bergamot or jasmine. The downside of it is that it oxidises on air exposure and might become allergenic.
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A super common fragrance ingredient found naturally in many plants including citrus peel oils, rosemary or lavender. It autoxidizes on air exposure and counts as a common skin sensitizer.
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A common fragrance ingredient with a nice rose-like smell.
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Good old water, aka H2O. The most common skincare ingredient of all. You can usually find it right in the very first spot of the ingredient list, meaning it’s the biggest thing out of all the stuff that makes up the product.
It’s mainly a solvent for ingredients that do not like to dissolve in oils but rather in water.
Once inside the skin, it hydrates, but not from the outside - putting pure water on the skin (hello long baths!) is drying.
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). Like this, the products can stay more stable over time.
A clear, colorless to slightly yellowish oil that makes the skin nice and smooth (emollient), spreads easily on the skin and is marketed as a good alternative to volatile (does not absorb into the skin but rather evaporates from it) silicones like Cyclomethicone .

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An extremely common multitasker ingredient that gives your skin a nice soft feel (emollient) and gives body to creams and lotions. It also helps to stabilize oil-water mixes (emulsions), though it does not function as an emulsifier in itself. Its typical use level in most cream type formulas is 2-3%.
It’s a so-called fatty alcohol, a mix of cetyl and stearyl alcohol, other two emollient fatty alcohols. Though chemically speaking, it is alcohol (as in, it has an -OH group in its molecule), its properties are totally different from the properties of low molecular weight or drying alcohols such as denat. alcohol . Fatty alcohols have a long oil-soluble (and thus emollient) tail part that makes them absolutely non-drying and non-irritating and are totally ok for the skin.

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A natural polymer (big molecules from repeated subunits) that is harvested from the Acacia tree in the sub-Saharan region in Africa. It's a great thickening and binding agent . Often coupled with xanthan gum , as it helps to reduce its unpleasant stickiness.
A super common, waxy, white, solid stuff that helps water and oil to mix together, gives body to creams and leaves the skin feeling soft and smooth .
Chemically speaking, it is the attachment of a glycerin molecule to the fatty acid called stearic acid . It can be produced from most vegetable oils (in oils three fatty acid molecules are attached to glycerin instead of just one like here) in a pretty simple, "green" process that is similar to soap making. It's readily biodegradable.
It also occurs naturally in our body and is used as a food additive. As cosmetic chemist Colins writes it , "its safety really is beyond any doubt".
A sugar based emulsifier that's especially great for low viscosity lotions or even sprays. It's effective in small amounts, only 1-1.5% is needed to form an emulsion. The resulting cream or lotion has great cosmetic properties with good spreadability and an enhanced soft skin feel.
Simply alcohol refers to ethanol and it's a pretty controversial ingredient . It has many instant benefits: it's a great solvent, penetration enhancer , creates cosmetically elegant, light formulas , great astringent and antimicrobial . No wonder it's popular in toners and oily skin formulas.
The downside is that it can be very drying if it's in the first few ingredients on an ingredient list.
Some experts even think that regular exposure to alcohol damages skin barrier and causes inflammation though it's a debated opinion. If you wanna know more, we wrote a more detailed explanation about what's the deal with alcohol in skincare products at alcohol denat. (it's also alcohol, but with some additives to make sure no one drinks it).

We don't have description for this ingredient yet.
Hydrolyzed Hyaluronic Acid is a low molecular weight, chemically chopped up version of the naturally big molecule and current IT-moisturizer, Hyaluronic Acid (HA). 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 retain water , making it plump and elastic. As HA is a polymer, the subunits can be repeated many times (as a high-molecular-weight version), or just a few times (as a low-molecular-weight version).
We wrote in detail at HA about how different molecular weight versions do different things both as a component of the skin and as a skincare ingredient, so click here and read about all the details . Hydrolyzed Hyaluronic Acid can also come in different molecular-weight versions with different properties:
If you wanna become a real HA-and-the-skin expert, you can read much 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).
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 a
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