Hydrolyzed proteins & amino acids!

For hair, it’s claimed it can repair damage and increase hair strength, making it feel smoother, reducing friction between the strands, which reduces damage. It can reduce breakage and increase elasticity by hydrating hair, which is great for all hair types, especially textured or fine hair.

For skin, it’s claimed that it can reduce “DNA damage after UV exposure”, which is making a pretty huge claim there, and one that I can’t really confirm. It works as a great film former that can prevent transepidermal water loss while hydrating skin without feeling super occlusive or cloying. It works as an anti-irritant for all skin types.

INCI: Hydrolyzed Cannabis Sativa Seed Extract

It’s a larger protein over at least 3,500 Daltons*, it won’t penetrate skin or hair, but forms a film to increase smoothness and decrease flakiness by increasing hydration in skin while strengthening hair, increasing its elasticity while reducing friction and combing forces that can cause damage.

In skin care products, it’s a film former that increases hydration, which reduces feelings and appearance of rough skin to make it look smoother, less ashy or flaky. It might work to repair skin damage, like sun spots.

In skin care products, it works as a film former, hydrator, conditioner, and anti-irritant, making it great for sensitive skin.

The suggested usage is 1% to 5% or even to 10% in the water phase of a product at 40˚C (104˚F) or lower after the emulsion has formed or in the final phase of making a gel, but I generally use 2% to 4% in hair and skin care products.

This is an ingredient from Croda called Keravis. This article notes that the protein has a molecular weight of 1800, which means it can penetrate “the hair shaft to optimize moisture content and plasticity of the hair, while also forming a cross-linking film that coats the hair to lubricate, protect and reinforce the cuticle.” This is supposed to make hair stronger while remaining flexible, which reduces breakage.

It’s a “film former, moisturizer and hair strengthening agent” that can penetrate “the hair shaft to increase moisture content & coating to lubricate hair and reinforce the cuticle.” (Reference) It can reduce combing forces, which reduces damage from friction, and it can keep water out, preventing the hair from swelling, which can lead to a raised cuticle and frizzies. And it can help our hair maintain and increase elasticity and flexibility. (Reference)

This ingredient is suggested for hair care products, like rinse-off conditioners as well as leave-in conditioners and styling products. They claim it can increase the diameter of hair fibres to provide us with “fuller, thicker, healthier looking hair” without increasing friction between the hair strands. It’s great for volumizing products as it doesn’t weigh down hair, giving it more bounce and movement, which always looks lovely. It claims to increase gloss and shine by smoothing down the hair strand, and reduces friction between strands, which reduces damage and increases manageability. Elasticity in our hair is important so it’ll spring back from being pulled or combed, and this ingredient can help restore elasticity and make hair stronger in that way by hydrating our hair strands.

Reduces the appearance of hyperpigmentation, dark spots, and skin roughness while promoting a more uniform complexion with a smoother texture for “healthier, flawless skin”. It claims it also “reduces skin imperfections from photo-damage, inflammation, aging & vascular conditions”, so it might be good for those of us with rosacea or inflammation from acne too and might help sensitive skin*.

It’s also works as a film former and hydrator, making hair and skin feel smoother and softer. Works as a volumizing and hydrating ingredient for fine or weighed down hair as it can help plump up or increase hair diameter. It can help increase the ease of wet and dry combing as well as improve shine.

Also works as an anti-oxidant.

For eye bags, creases, and puffiness around the eyes.

Facial care active

Hydrating ingredient

also found in the e-book, Botanical extracts, part one