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Ingredients Side-by-side
Bifida Ferment Filtrate
Skin Conditioning
Galactomyces Ferment Filtrate
Humectant
Butylene Glycol
Humectant
Glycerin
Humectant
Niacinamide
Smoothing
1,2-Hexanediol
Skin Conditioning
Sodium Hyaluronate
Humectant
Adenosine
Skin Conditioning
Panax Ginseng Root Extract
Emollient
Platycodon Grandiflorus Root Extract
Antioxidant
Angelica Gigas Root Extract
Skin ConditioningCirsium Flower/Leaf/Stem Extract
Skin ConditioningSophora Angustifolia Root Extract
Skin ConditioningHouttuynia Cordata Extract
Skin Conditioning
Lonicera Japonica Flower Extract
Skin ConditioningArtemisia Capillaris Leaf Extract
Skin ConditioningPaeonia Suffruticosa Bark Extract
Skin ConditioningTaraxacum Officinale Rhizome/Root Extract
Skin ConditioningCastanea Crenata Shell Extract
Skin ConditioningAcanthopanax Sessiliflorus Bark Extract
Skin ConditioningHydrolyzed Collagen
Emollient
Copper Tripeptide-1
Skin Conditioning
Camellia Japonica Flower Extract
EmollientCitrus Unshiu Peel Extract
Masking
Artemisia Vulgaris Extract
Skin Conditioning
Sasa Quelpaertensis Extract
Skin ConditioningCamellia Sinensis Leaf Extract
Antimicrobial
Myrciaria Dubia Fruit Extract
Skin ConditioningBeta-Glucan
Skin Conditioning
Hamamelis Virginiana Extract
Antiseborrhoeic
Ammonium Acryloyldimethyltaurate/Vp Copolymer
Carbomer
Emulsion StabilisingArginine
Masking
Bifida Ferment Filtrate, Galactomyces Ferment Filtrate, Butylene Glycol, Glycerin, Niacinamide, 1,2-Hexanediol, Sodium Hyaluronate, Adenosine, Panax Ginseng Root Extract, Platycodon Grandiflorus Root Extract, Angelica Gigas Root Extract, Cirsium Flower/Leaf/Stem Extract, Sophora Angustifolia Root Extract, Houttuynia Cordata Extract, Lonicera Japonica Flower Extract, Artemisia Capillaris Leaf Extract, Paeonia Suffruticosa Bark Extract, Taraxacum Officinale Rhizome/Root Extract, Castanea Crenata Shell Extract, Acanthopanax Sessiliflorus Bark Extract, Hydrolyzed Collagen, Copper Tripeptide-1, Camellia Japonica Flower Extract, Citrus Unshiu Peel Extract, Artemisia Vulgaris Extract, Sasa Quelpaertensis Extract, Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract, Myrciaria Dubia Fruit Extract, Beta-Glucan, Hamamelis Virginiana Extract, Ammonium Acryloyldimethyltaurate/Vp Copolymer, Carbomer, Arginine
Ingredients Explained
These ingredients are found in both products.
Ingredients higher up in an ingredient list are typically present in a larger amount.
Glycerin (or glycerol) is a compound naturally found in your skin. It's a powerhouse humectant that pulls water into the stratum corneum.
Topically, glycerin does several things at once:
Your skin makes glycerin on its own (mostly from sebaceous oil breakdown) and shuttles it to your outermost layer of skin, or your epidermis, via aquaporin-3.
Aquaporin-3 is a transporter that is essential for normal skin hydration, elasticity, and repair. Interestingly, mice lacking in AQP3 have dry and less elastic skin that can be fully corrected with glycerin.
This ingredient is non-irritating, plays well with almost every ingredient, and works across all skin types. Typical use is anywhere between 3-10% but can go up to 79% in some leave-on products.
Just know very high concentrations (>40%) can feel tacky in low humidity.
Glycerin is the name for this ingredient in American English. British English uses Glycerol/Glycerine.
Learn more about GlycerinHydrolyzed Collagen is Collagen (usually sourced from fish, bovine, or porcine byproducts) that's been broken down into smaller peptides. This makes it water-soluble and easy to blend into formulations.
In a formula, it works mainly as a skin-conditioning and moisturizing agent.
The small peptides and amino acids (including Natural Moisturizing Factor components like Hydroxyproline, Serine, and Aspartic Acid) help the surface of the skin hold onto water, feel softer, and look temporarily plumper.
This ingredient also has mild film-forming and antioxidant properties with research showing the antioxidant effect is stronger the lower the molecular weight of the peptides.
It's worth being realistic here:
Topically applied Hydrolyzed Collagen conditions the upper layers of skin rather than rebuilding the structural collagen deep in your dermis (the wrinkle-and-firmness benefits people associate with Collagen mostly come from oral supplements in studies, not topicals).
However, recent lab and skin-model work on Hydrolyzed Fish Collagen has shown promising effects on cell viability and wound healing when used as an active.
Typical concentrations range from 0.2-2%, but the percentage can go much higher in rinse-off or hair products (sometimes even above 50%).
Clinical studies on this ingredient showed no irritation, sensitization, or phototoxicity.
If you are looking for vegan collagen, it usually goes by a different INCI name like hydrolyzed soy protein. Vegan collagen is derived from yeast, bacteria, or plant sources.
The results are varied.
A study from 2021 found hydrolyzed collagen increased elasticity and improved wrinkles in 1,125 participants between age 20 and 70. Another study found increased skin thickness in participants between the ages of 45 to 59.
However, It is difficult to prove that oral collagen will end up working on your skin. Many of the studies using hydrolyzed collagen also add several vitamins and nutrients into the test mixture as well.
Further studies are needed at this time.
Learn more about Hydrolyzed CollagenSodium Hyaluronate is the salt form of hyaluronic acid. It is a long sugar chain that is naturally found in your skin, joints, and connective tissue that maintains hydration and elasticity.
In skincare, it works as a humectant. It pulls water from the environment and deeper layers of skin and binds it to the surface.
Interestingly, the size of the molecule affects its behavior:
Some clinical evidence links low molecular weight versions to improved wrinkle depth, elasticity, anti-inflammatory effects, and barrier repair.
Many serums use a blend of both weights so you can get surface hydration plus longer-lasting and deeper effects.
You'll typically see concentrations between 0.1-2% for this ingredient.
Learn more about Sodium Hyaluronate
