Naturelab Tokyo Perfect Repair Treatment Masque How To Use

Perfect Repair Masque

Hair mask

Uploaded past: popsy on 04/23/2020

Ingredients overview

Aqua (Water, Eau), Cetearyl Booze, Dimethicone, Steartrimonium Chloride, Glucose, Phyllostachys Pubescens Meristem Cell Lysate, Argania Spinosa Sprout Jail cell Excerpt, Malus Domestica Fruit Cell Civilisation Extract, Vitis Vinifera (Grape) Fruit Cell Extract, Glutamic Acrid, Sodium PCA, Keratin, Hydrolyzed Keratin, Prunus Domestica Seed Excerpt, Argania Spinosa Kernel Oil, Lupinus Albus Seed Oil, Mangifera Indica (Mango) Seed Oil, Theobroma Grandiflorum Seed Butter, Adansonia Digitata Seed Oil, Carapa Guaianensis Seed Oil, Sclerocarya Birrea Seed Oil, Opuntia Ficus-Indica Seed Oil, Isomalt, Ethylhexyl Palmitate, Dipentaerythrityl Tri-Polyhydroxystearate, Dimethiconol, Hydrogenated Castor Oil Isostearate, Dipentaerythrityl Hexahydroxystearate/Hexastearate/Hexarosinate, Hydroxyethylcellulose, Xanthan Glue, Lecithin, Dicocodimonium Chloride, Cetrimonium Chloride, Benzotriazolyl Dodecyl P-Cresol, Isopropyl Booze, Glycerin, Tocopherol, Etidronic Acid, Phenoxyethanol, Sodium Benzoate, Parfum (Fragrance), Yellow 5 (Ci 19140), Bluish 1 (Ci 42090), Red 33 (Ci 17200)

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Key Ingredients

Other Ingredients

Emollient: Cetearyl Booze, Dimethicone, Prunus Domestica Seed Excerpt, Argania Spinosa Kernel Oil, Mangifera Indica (Mango) Seed Oil, Adansonia Digitata Seed Oil, Sclerocarya Birrea Seed Oil, Opuntia Ficus-Indica Seed Oil, Ethylhexyl Palmitate, Dipentaerythrityl Tri-Polyhydroxystearate, Dimethiconol, Lecithin

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Ingredient proper noun	what-information technology-does	irr., com.	ID-Rating
Aqua (H2o, Eau)	solvent
Cetearyl Alcohol	emollient, viscosity controlling, emulsifying, surfactant/cleansing	1, two
Dimethicone	emollient	0, 1
Steartrimonium Chloride	preservative
Glucose	moisturizer/humectant		goodie
Phyllostachys Pubescens Meristem Cell Lysate
Argania Spinosa Sprout Cell Excerpt
Malus Domestica Fruit Prison cell Culture Extract			goodie
Vitis Vinifera (Grape) Fruit Jail cell Excerpt
Glutamic Acrid	moisturizer/humectant
Sodium PCA	skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/humectant	0, 0	goodie
Keratin
Hydrolyzed Keratin	moisturizer/humectant
Prunus Domestica Seed Extract	antioxidant, emollient		goodie
Argania Spinosa Kernel Oil	antioxidant, emollient		goodie
Lupinus Albus Seed Oil
Mangifera Indica (Mango) Seed Oil	emollient		goodie
Theobroma Grandiflorum Seed Butter
Adansonia Digitata Seed Oil	emollient		goodie
Carapa Guaianensis Seed Oil
Sclerocarya Birrea Seed Oil	emollient		goodie
Opuntia Ficus-Indica Seed Oil	emollient		goodie
Isomalt	moisturizer/humectant
Ethylhexyl Palmitate	emollient, perfuming	0, two-iv
Dipentaerythrityl Tri-Polyhydroxystearate	emollient
Dimethiconol	emollient, moisturizer/humectant
Hydrogenated Brush Oil Isostearate	viscosity controlling
Dipentaerythrityl Hexahydroxystearate/Hexastearate/Hexarosinate	viscosity controlling
Hydroxyethylcellulose	viscosity controlling
Xanthan Mucilage	viscosity controlling
Lecithin	emollient, emulsifying		goodie
Dicocodimonium Chloride	emulsifying, surfactant/cleansing
Cetrimonium Chloride	antimicrobial/antibacterial, emulsifying, preservative, surfactant/cleansing
Benzotriazolyl Dodecyl P-Cresol
Isopropyl Alcohol	solvent, viscosity controlling, perfuming	0, 0	icky
Glycerin	skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/humectant	0, 0	superstar
Tocopherol	antioxidant	0-3, 0-3	goodie
Etidronic Acrid	chelating
Phenoxyethanol	preservative
Sodium Benzoate	preservative
Parfum (Fragrance)	perfuming		icky
Yellow five (Ci 19140)	colorant
Blue 1 (Ci 42090)	colorant
Red 33 (Ci 17200)	colorant	two, ane

NatureLab TOKYO Perfect Repair Masque
Ingredients explained

As well-chosen: H2o | What-it-does: solvent

Adept quondam h2o, aka Water. The nearly common skincare ingredient of all. Yous can usually discover it correct in the very kickoff spot of the ingredient list, meaning it'due south the biggest thing out of all the stuff that makes up the product.

Information technology's mainly a solvent for ingredients that practise not like to dissolve in oils just rather in water.

Once inside the skin, it hydrates, but not from the exterior - putting pure h2o on the skin (hullo long baths!) is drying.

I more matter: 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.

An extremely common multitasker ingredient that gives your peel a nice soft feel (emollient) and gives trunk to creams and lotions. Information technology too helps to stabilize oil-water mixes (emulsions), though it does not function as an emulsifier in itself. Its typical use level in nearly cream type formulas is 2-3%.

It's a so-called fat alcohol, a mix of cetyl and stearyl alcohol, other two emollient fatty alcohols. Though chemically speaking, information technology is booze (as in, it has an -OH group in its molecule), its backdrop are totally different from the properties of low molecular weight or drying alcohols such as denat. booze. Fat alcohols accept a long oil-soluble (and thus emollient) tail role that makes them admittedly non-drying and non-irritating and are totally ok for the skin.

What-information technology-does: emollient | Irritancy: 0 | Comedogenicity: 1

Probably themost common silicone of all. It is a polymer (created from repeating subunits) molecule and has different molecular weight and thus dissimilar viscosity versions from water-light to thick liquid.

Every bit for skincare, it makes the peel silky smooth, creates a subtle gloss and forms a protective barrier (aka occlusive). Also, works well to make full in fine lines and wrinkles and requite pare a plump expect (of course that is only temporary, simply yet, it's squeamish). There are also scar treatment gels out in that location using dimethicone every bit their base ingredient. Information technology helps to soften scars and increase their elasticity.

Every bit for hair intendance, it is a non-volatile silicone pregnant that it stays on the hair rather than evaporates from it andsmoothes the hair like no other thing. Depending on your hair type, information technology can exista bit difficult to wash out and might crusade some build-up (btw, this is not true to all silicones, just the non-volatile types).

Nosotros don't have clarification for this ingredient all the same.

A fancy name for sugar. Luckily when you put it on your skin it's healthy not like when yous consume it. :) It has water-binding backdrop, which means that it helps to keep your skin dainty and hydrated.

Nosotros don't accept description for this ingredient nevertheless.

Nosotros don't take description for this ingredient however.

Besides-called: PhytoCellTec

We don't take description for this ingredient yet.

We don't have clarification for this ingredient still.

Glutamic acid is a picayune molecule and non-essential (our body tin synthesize information technology) amino acid with the important job of being a neurotransmitter in the homo body pregnant that it helps your nervous system work correctly.

Equally for what it's doing in cosmetics, Glutamic acids' main thing (similar to other amino acids) is being a humectant moisturizer and peel-conditioning agent (sidenote: if yous adhere lots of glutamic acrid molecules, you lot get polyglutamic acid that is claimed to exist a better than hyaluronic acid humectant). It also seems to affect skin bulwark repair, however, information technology is not clear-cut in which direction.

The complication is that glutamic acid has two distinct forms, L-glutamic acid and D-glutamic acrid, that are the mirror images of each other (think of it like your left and right hand). Studies show that a topical awarding of L-glutamic acid on damaged skin delayed skin repair, while D-glutamic acid application sped upward skin repair. As both forms are used past the industry, information technology is a bit uncertain what you lot are getting with only glutamic acid on the ingredient list (merely if it is a Shiseido grouping product, information technology is probably the goodie D-form :)).

Other than that, Glutamic acid tin also exist used every bit a pH adjuster and tin can exist processed via biological pathways into pyrrolidone carboxylic acid, the sodium salt of which is a goodie and one of your skin'due south natural moisturizing factors.

PCA stands for Pyrrolidone Carboxylic Acid and though it might non sound like it, it is a thing that tin exist plant naturally in our pare. The sodium salt form of PCA is an of import peel-identical ingredient and smashing natural moisturizer that helps the peel to hold onto water and stay nicely hydrated.

Nosotros don't accept description for this ingredient yet.

We don't have description for this ingredient yet.

A harbinger-yellow to orange-xanthous oil coming from the kernels of a native French plum chosen Ente Plum. According to the manufacturer, the oil is a high-oleic one (about 70% oleic acid and 20% linoleic acid), that makes the oil highly nourishing and moisturizing. It also contains relatively high amounts of antioxidant vitamin E, about 700 ppm that's three times more in olive oil.

Plum oil also gives the skin an exceptionally silky and nice feeling, penetrates chop-chop and has a unique natural fragrance. The "top annotation" is similar to bitter almond, that evolves afterward to a more than circuitous fruity fragrance.

When it comes to cosmetic oils and hype, argan oil is for sure leading the mode. Dubbed as the "liquid gold of Morocco", we have to acknowledge nosotros take some trouble determining why this oil enjoys such a special phenomenon status. Non that it's not good, it is adept, fifty-fifty keen just reading the research nigh argan and a agglomeration of other plant oils we just do non see the big, unique differentiating factor (though that might be our mistake not reading enough, obvs.)

And then, argan oil comes from the kernel of the argan fruit that comes from the argan tree that grows just in Morocco. The tree is boring growing and getting the oil is a hard job. The traditional procedure is that the ripe argan fruits autumn from the tree, then goats eat them up and poop out the seeds. The seeds are nerveless and smashed with a stone to go the kernels within. This part is the hard 1 as the seeds have extremely hard shells. Once the kernels are obtained, the oil is pressed out from them (the kernels contain about l% oil).

Every bit for skincare, argan oil is loaded with lots of skin goodies (simply so are many other establish oils): it contains fourscore% nourishing and moisturizing unsaturated fat acids, mainly oleic (38-l%), linoleic (28-38%) and palmitic (x-xviii%). It as well contains a relatively large amount of antioxidant vitamin E (600-900 mg/kg, nigh twice as much every bit olive), small amounts of antioxidant phenols (including caffeic acrid, ferulic acid, and epicatechin), likewise as some rare sterols with soothing and anti-inflammatory properties.

Thanks to all the above goodness in argan oil, it can greatly nourish and moisturize the skin and hair. It's also claimed to be able to neutralize collagen-damaging gratuitous radicals, help reduce scars, and revitalize and improve peel elasticity. You tin can even read that argan might help acne-decumbent skin, but being a high oleic oil, we would be careful with that.

All in all, argan oil is a existent goodie merely we exercise not fully sympathize the special miracle condition it enjoys.

Nosotros don't have description for this ingredient notwithstanding.

Also-chosen: Mango Seed Oil, Mango Seed Butter | What-it-does: emollient

The soft solid, fair to ivory butter or oil coming from the kernel (the seed within of the seed) of the Mango. Similar to many other plant oils, it'south a great moisturizing and nourishing emollient oil. It has medium spreadability and gives skin a creamy-dry feel.

It's loaded with a bunch of good-for-the-peel stuff: it contains almost all of the essential amino acids, has several antioxidant phenolic compounds (including famous antioxidant ferulic acid) and is a rich source of nourishing fatty acids (like stearic and oleic acid).

All in all, a skin goodie especially for dry skin types.

Also-called: Cupuacu Butter

We don't take description for this ingredient withal.

Also-called: Baobab Seed Oil | What-information technology-does: emollient

Baobab is a really big, iconic tree native to Africa (hither is a nice paradigm of information technology). It'south the largest succulent plant in the world and almost all parts of it have traditional medicinal uses in Africa.

The seed oil, like to other plant oils, is loaded with things that are practiced-for-the-peel: information technology contains skin regenerating vitamin A, antioxidant vitamin E, and vitamin D3 that helps with calcium absorption. It's rich in n ourishing fat acids oleic (30-40%), linoleic (24-34%) and palmitic (xviii-30%).

Its moisturizing benefits are impressive, it captivated into the skin quickly and might even improve skin elasticity. A great oil for drier skin types and excellent for eczema and psoriasis.

We don't have description for this ingredient yet.

Also-called: Marula Seed Oil;Sclerocarya Birrea Seed Oil | What-it-does: emollient

If y'all have an interest in elephants and Africa, you lot have probably heard of elephants getting drunkard from the fruit of the Marula tree. Though this seems to be just a legend, what is true is that the Marula fruit is really nice (and elephants do love to eat it) and there is a stone in it with several oil-rich kernels inside.

Then the Marula oil - similar to many other plant oils - is a really nice nourishing and moisturizing oil that can improve skin hydration and smoothness and information technology can even reduce skin redness. It's traditionally used in South Africa to massage babies with and every bit a body lotion for face, feet, and hands.

Every bit for its composition, it's loaded with skin goodies: information technology'south very rich in fatty acids, includingoleic (73%), palmitic (15%), and linoleic (9%) acids. It also contains some natural antioxidants, including Vitamin Eastward and the oil shows an outstanding oxidative stability.

If yous accept dry skin that needs some pampering, Marula oil is a good choice.

Also-called: Prickly Pear Oil | What-information technology-does: emollient

The emollient plant oil coming from the seeds of the cactus commonly called Prickly Pear or Nopal Fig. Information technology is a native to Mexico cactus with large, sweet fruits that are used to create jam and jellies. About 18–20% of the peeled fruits are seeds, and the seeds contain just about iii-5% oil. This means that the oil is rare and expensive every bit a ton of fruit (and it is literally a ton) is needed to yield 1 liter of it.

As for its limerick, its 3 main fat acids are barrier-repairing linoleic (60-70%), nourishing oleic (9-26%), and saturated fat acrid, palmitic (8-eighteen%). It is also rich in antioxidant vitamin E (110mg/100g) and in anti-inflammatory sterols (beta-sitosterol, campesterol). As a high-linoleic oil, it has a low-cal skin feeling, absorbs hands into the top layer of the skin and gives a velvety skin feel.

We don't have clarification for this ingredient yet.

A super mutual, medium-spreading emollient ester that gives richness to the formula and a mild experience during rubout. Information technology tin be a replacement for mineral oil and is often combined with other emollients to achieve different sensorial properties.

We don't accept description for this ingredient even so.

A thick, high molecular weight silicone that is usually diluted in another, lighter silicone fluid (like dimethicone or cyclopentasiloxane). The dimethiconol containing silicone blends exit a silky smooth, non-greasy film on the peel.

We don't have clarification for this ingredient withal.

We don't take description for this ingredient yet.

A prissy little helper ingredient that can thicken upwardly corrective products and create cute gel formulas. It's derived from cellulose, the major component of the cell wall of dark-green plants. It is compatible with most co-ingredients and gives a very proficient slip to the formulas.

It's one of the most commonly used thickenersouth and emulsion stabilizers. If the product is too runny, a fiddling xanthan gum volition make it more gel-like. Used alone, information technology can brand the formula gummy and it is a good team thespian so it is usually combined with other thickeners then-chosen rheology modifiers (helper ingredients that adjust the menses and thus the feel of the formula). The typical use level of Xantha Gum is below ane%, information technology is ordinarily in the 0.1-0.5% range.

Btw, Xanthan gum is all natural, a chain of sugar molecules (polysaccharide) produced from individual sugar molecules (glucose and sucrose) via fermentation. It's canonical past Ecocert and besides used in the food industry (E415).

A very common ingredient that tin exist institute in all prison cell membranes. In cosmetics it's quite the multi-tasker: it's an emollient and water-binding ingredient just it'south besides an emulsifier and tin be used for stabilization purposes. Information technology's besides often used to create liposomes.

We don't have description for this ingredient yet.

We don't take description for this ingredient still.

We don't have clarification for this ingredient yet.

A natural moisturizer that'south also in our skin
A super mutual, prophylactic, effective and inexpensive molecule used for more than 50 years
Not only a unproblematic moisturizer but knows much more: keeps the skin lipids between our peel cells in a good for you (liquid crystal) state, protects confronting irritation, helps to restore barrier
Effective from as depression as 3% with even more benefits at higher concentrations up to 20-40% (around 10% is a good usability-effectiveness sweet spot)
High-glycerin moisturizers are awesome for treating severely dry pare

Read all the geeky details virtually Glycerin here >>

Also-called: Vitamin Due east | What-information technology-does: antioxidant | Irritancy: 0-3 | Comedogenicity: 0-three

Primary fat-soluble antioxidant in our pare
Significant photoprotection against UVB rays
Vit C + Vit E work in synergy and provide great photoprotection
Has emollient backdrop
Easy to codify, stable and relatively inexpensive

Read all the geeky details most Tocopherol here >>

We don't have description for this ingredient yet.

Information technology's pretty much the electric current Information technology-preservative. It's rubber and gentle, but even more importantly, it'due south not a feared-by-everyone-more often than not-without-scientific-reason paraben.

It'south not something new: information technology was introduced effectually 1950 and today it tin exist used up to 1% worldwide. It tin be institute in nature - in dark-green tea - but the version used in cosmetics is constructed.

Other than having a good safe profile and being quite gentle to the peel it has another advantages too. It can exist used in many types of formulations as information technology has great thermal stability (can exist heated up to 85°C) and works on a broad range of pH levels (ph iii-10).

It's frequently used together with ethylhexylglycerin as information technology nicely improves the preservative activity of phenoxyethanol.

A helper ingredient that helps to make the products stay overnice longer, aka preservative. It works mainly against fungi.

It's pH dependent and works best at acidic pH levels (3-5). It's non strong plenty to be used in itself so it's always combined with something else, often with potassium sorbate.

Besides-called: Fragrance, Parfum;Parfum/Fragrance | What-information technology-does: perfuming

Exactly what it sounds: squeamish smelling stuff put into cosmetic products and then that the stop product also smells nice. Fragrance in the US and parfum in the European union is a generic term on the ingredient list that is made up of 30 to 50 chemicals on boilerplate (but it tin take as much as 200 components!).

If yous are someone who likes to know what you put on your face so fragrance is non your best friend - at that place's no way to know what's really in it.

Also, if your skin is sensitive, fragrance is again not your best friend. It's the number one cause of contact allergy to cosmetics. It'southward definitely a smart thing to avoid with sensitive skin (and fragrance of whatever type - natural is only as allergic as synthetic, if not worse!).

As well-called: Tartrazine, Yellow five;Ci 19140 | What-it-does: colorant

Ci 19140 or Tartrazine is a super mutual colorant in skincare, makeup, medicine & food. Information technology'south a synthetic lemon yellow that'south used alone or mixed with other colors for special shades.

FDA says it's possible, but rare, to accept an allergic-blazon reaction to a color condiment. As an instance, information technology mentions that Ci 19140 may cause itching and hives in some people but the colorant is ever labeled so that you lot can avert information technology if yous are sensitive.

Also-chosen: Ci 42090 | What-information technology-does: colorant

CI 42090 or Blueish 1 is a super common constructed colorant in beauty & nutrient. Used alone, information technology adds a bright smurf-like blue color, combined with Tartrazine, it gives the 50 shades of green.

Also-chosen: Scarlet 33, D&C Cherry-red 33, Reddish 33 Lake;Ci 17200 | What-it-does: colorant | Irritancy: 2 | Comedogenicity: i

A super common synthetic colorant that adds a regal-red colour - similar to scarlet beet - to a product.