In Instagrame beauty-blogger Diana Legrant, which recently was flying to Seoul to review the makeup of the Korean plant, stumbled an interesting detail: in the shopping centers of South Korea sold our Russian cream "Carrot" on the Neva Cosmetics.
I'm sorry that this article 3-5 minutes of your precious time steals composition analysis. Personal opinion about the cream - just below.
I do remember that 2 years ago on the Neva cosmetics packaging no description of the composition of the Korean language. So, quite recently, "Neva cosmetics" has started to export its products. And not just in some country, and South Korea - the place from which we have adopted for skin care, formats type cushion whose toners, peeling bedroll and serum we have taken to heart, forgetting about the European cosmetics.
I would not be interested in the cream, if it exported to countries of former Yugoslavia, Poland, or, for example, the same Spain or France. But to see the Russian brand in the country, whose make-up used by the whole world and from her ecstatic beauty-elite - it's hard! It is urgent to get acquainted :-)
So Carrot Cream Neva cosmetics. Who does not know what it looks like and where it is sold, you can see here.
What is special about carrots as an ingredient in cosmetics?
Vitamin A in it is almost 2.5 times more than the norm, as well as pro-vitamin A - beta carotene.
And my readers have long known that vitamin A is associated with skin rejuvenation, its fresh appearance and get rid of acne (there's nothing like retinol in this case).
What about the beta-carotene in cosmetics: it perfectly enhances the skin's natural UV protection and restores it after sunburn. Not just in people's recipes for charred skin sun appears aloe and carrot.
What's really in a cream?
We'll start with the cream composition, analyze each component separately.
Ingredients: Aqua, Olea Europaea (Olive) Oil, Isopropyl Myristate, Glyceryl Stearate, PEG-100 Stearate, Glycerin, Stearic Acid, Lanolin, Paraffin, Helianthus Annuus Seed Oil, Beta-Carotene, Daucus Carota Extract, Tocopheryl Acetate, Dimethicone, Carbomer, Triethanolamine, Parfum, BHT, Phenoxyethanol, Ethylhexylglycerin.
As we know, on the label of the composition indicated in descending order of concentration.
second after the water goes olive oil (Olea Europaea (Olive) Oil). One of the best options for the base oils to create cosmetics with essential oils and plant extracts. These words will confirm any chemist or technologist cosmetic production.
Olive oil does not break properties have been added to the product of essential oils, it neutral. In addition, it is hypoallergenic and thanks to oleic acid in the composition is able to influence the metabolism of fat in the deep layers of the skin. Not just olive oil is involved in almost all the means to fight against stretch marks and cellulite. At the very least, but working. And if the oil affects the metabolism of fat in the skin, when it is used frequently in cosmetics even skin tone is provided.
Let's go further. The third component (Isopropyl Myristate) - isopropyl myristate. It is not necessary to pass out on the raw materials from which it is produced - oil.
This is a fairly common emollient: makes the skin soft and velvety, with a greasy film on the face does not remain. However, for sensitive skin that isopropyl myristate is the third in a cream it can serve as a good reason not to use the carrot cream. High concentrations of emollients because of myristic acid in the composition may cause irritation.
The fourth component (Glyceryl Stearate) - glyceryl stearate emulsifier. Its mission - to normally connect the oil with water, not to get an incomprehensible substance type lava lamps, as well as to increase shelf life to the other components in the composition is not stratified. Without it spreading to eyeliner, mascara to lashes are glued, and the shadow of a tear rolled down faster.
The fifth component (PEG-100 Stearate) - PEG-100 stearate, almost always goes with the fourth component, without it is impossible to do well, moisturizer oil-based.
Sixth (Glycerin) - glycerol"Magnet", attracts water from the environment. Actually, the way he works in moisture. It should be remembered that the means of glycerine should be applied very little, if the humidity is less than 50%.
Seventh (Stearic Acid) - stearic acidTo the texture of cream to make more viscous.
Eighth (Lanolin) - LanolinAlso the base ingredient protects the skin from moisture loss.
But where vitamin A from carrots?
The ninth component (Paraffin) - mineral oilWorking together with lanolin. I'm already bored to disassemble the structure, seriously :-( Nothing outstanding.
Tenth (Helianthus Annuus Seed Oil) - Sunflower seed oil. Not bad. It contains a lot of tocopherols (vitamin E, or "vitamin of youth"). Even more than in olive oil. The means for aging skin one of the operating components, but something in carrot cream its concentration is low.
Eleventh (Beta-Carotene) - beta-carotene. Finally! Here he is, the one component that justifies the marketing efforts to stick to the packaging picture carrots. He should tidy up aging skin, squeal on the head with the free radicals and soothe the skin after a hike in the solarium.
Twelfth (Daucus Carota Extract) - carrot extract! An antioxidant found in the US not cheap sunscreens and ayurvedic creams. But here's the paradox: Putney research about the carrot extract very little. And I'm in the camp of those who trust in scientific research, not secrets grandmothers who write often students. Sorry.
Thirteenth (Tocopheryl Acetate) - Vitamin ETo all the good in the tube is not oxidized. The rest (in descending order):
- Dimethicone (dimethicone): An excellent thing that makes the texture of the fluid means, and help cream spread evenly on the skin. Where a part of dimethicone - says that the funds rate will cost. A pea is sufficient to distribute the cream over the entire face, even on the neck area remains. There are many myths about dimethicone, and is afraid of him any lady with Otzovika or Ayrekommends, which embarked on a review of cosmetics;
- Carbomer (carbomer): The cream was not sticky;
- Triethanolamine (triethanolamine): To the contents in the tube did not change the level of acidity (pH);
- Parfum: Ordinary perfume;
- BHT: Preservative, may cause allergic reactions. More this carcinogen, but its concentration is so low that it is necessary to drop into the barrel with the preservative and not come out from it a day to cause liver damage or thyroid gland;
- Phenoxyethanol (Phenoxyethanol) can also irritate the skin and cause an allergic reaction. But then each of us all individually. By the way, the preservative parabens now selected popularity in horror stories;
- Ethylhexylglycerin (Ethylhexylglycerin) is also a preservative and stabilizer. I wonder is this: to supply carrot cream in South Korea instead were composed of three more harmful preservative, now replaced by a more secure Ethylhexylglycerin. This is a good sign ;-)
So, judging by the composition, the cream should have been called not a carrot and olive :-) But it's boring and unattractive. About the benefits of the same olive oil know almost all. Here marketers have done a good job.
My opinion
the smell of cream normal, interesting texture dense orange. If actually added carrot juice.
Distributed easily, not greasy. But the moisture, in all honesty, no: in this you will see that go into a well-heated room (where the heat sink straight up do not touch), and you will pull together a skin.
Color tones do get a uniform, there are no shades of orange. As a foundation can be safely used.
The cream is not straight WOW, but for the money the result is even nothing. Why buy his Koreans, when they have a lot of good tools themselves - question. Maybe not so good Korean funds. As an everywhere. Market, what to do.
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