Currently, the moisturizing agents used in cosmetics are mainly polyols, sorbitol, lactic acid, and sodium salt. In recent years, Maskera has made many efforts to broaden the application of traditional moisturizers further and develop new ones. If you are the product manager of your brand, then you must know these 9 moisturizing ingredients.
1. NATURAL MOISTURIZER
1.1 Jojoba Oil
Jojoba oil is a transparent liquid, almost odorless and tasteless. Jojoba oil imparts a non-greasy, smooth, and soft feel to the skin and is formulated into creams and lotions to make an excellent cosmetic moisturizer for dry skin.
1.2 Squalane
Squalane is a clear, transparent liquid with a slight organ sensation. Unlike squalene chemically processed from shark liver oil, Maskera can obtain it from olive oil. It is a hydrocarbon substance without odor, non-toxic and safe, used in cosmetics to increase the respiration of the skin and prevent the skin from losing moisture.
1.3 Ganoderma lucidum extract
Ganoderma lucidum extract is from wild Ganoderma lucidum after extraction, purification, and aseptic treatment. It has good moisturizing properties and a series of other functions.
1.4 Saussurea involucrata extract
Saussurea involucrata extract is a multifunctional cosmetic raw material. Saussurea involucrata extract contains flavonoids rutin, lactones yaconolide, alkaloids, volatile oils, polysaccharides, saponins, glycosides, vitamins and amino acids, and other active ingredients that play an essential role in the human body. It nourishes skin cells and improves skin elasticity and permeability. In addition to the good moisturizing properties, Saussurea involucrata extract skin care products have astringent and antibacterial properties.
1.5 Silk Protein Moisturizer
Silk essence is a mixture of free amino acids, dipeptides, and tripeptides hydrolyzed from silk fibroin under certain conditions. It can be a transparent clear liquid or a water-soluble white solid with excellent moisturizing properties. Obtained by hydrolysis of silk fibroin, silk peptide’s moisturizing property is 20 times higher than that of glycerin of the same concentration. Because silk fibroin has both safety, quality, and efficacy, it is a better choice for cosmetic moisturizers.
2. CHEMICALLY SYNTHESIZED MOISTURIZERS
2.1 Polyol type humectant
Polyol compounds have multiple hydroxyl groups and a good affinity with water, generally used as moisturizing agents for cosmetics. So does glycerin. Propylene glycol, used as a substitute for glycerin, is a moisturizing agent in combination with glycerin and sorbitol in cosmetics. 1,3-Butanediol can also be used as a moisturizing agent for cosmetics and has an excellent antibacterial effect applied in various lotions and creams. Xylitol is thermally stable, water-soluble, and can be used as a moisturizing agent to replace glycerin. Sorbitol is a hexanol with six hydroxyl groups. The comparative test with glycerin shows that sorbitol has good hygroscopicity and moisturizing properties and can completely replace glycerin, becoming an ideal moisturizing agent for creams, milk, and shampoo cosmetics. Reduce the cost of a single moisturizing agent in cosmetics. In addition, low molecular weight polyglycols can also use as humectants in cosmetics.
2.2 Sodium lactate
Sodium lactate is a colorless or slightly yellow transparent syrup-like liquid with strong water absorption capacity, odorless or somewhat extraordinary odor, and little bitter taste, and its aqueous solution is neutral. Sodium lactate uses in cosmetics as a humectant, water absorbent, and glycerin substitute.
2.3 Glucose Derivatives
Hexylene glycol glucoside is a polyhydroxylated compound with stable performance and a strong affinity with water. It uses as a moisturizer in cosmetics. Compared with glycerin, glycol glucoside is an ideal cosmetic moisturizer because its production cost is lower than the moisturizers mentioned above. And it has strong hydrophilicity and water retention.
2.4 Castor oil and its derivatives
The hydroxyl groups in castor oil and some of its derivatives (such as cetyl ricinoleate) can form hydrogen bonds and have a high degree of glass, so cosmetics have good moisturizing properties. Because castor oil and some of its derivatives have an almost uniform long fatty carbon chain and unique chemical structure, resulting in its mild properties and non-irritating skin, it is an excellent moisturizing agent.
There are two kinds of moisturizing agents for cosmetics according to the moisturizing mechanism. One is the occluded type, mainly lipids, and higher alcohols, and their usage is decreasing due to the nasty greasy feeling they give to the skin. The other is moisturizing types (such as glycerin), which can absorb moisture from high-humidity environments to moisturize the cuticle but also make cosmetics sticky, neither of which works well. On the one hand, the research and development of humectants are to develop excellent humectants with both occluding and wetting properties. Maskera have been tested and studied for many years. Ethoxylated mono- and diglycerides are a humectant.
On the other hand, the research and development of moisturizing agents is the development of natural moisturizing agents. Many natural substances have good moisturizing properties. At the same time, these natural extracts also contain other substances that are nutritious to the skin and satisfy the need for people to return to nature. It is a kind of moisturizing agent with excellent market prospects.