How To Use Neutrogena Rapid Tone Repair Dark Spot Corrector

Rapid Tone Repair Nighttime Spot Corrector

A top-rated dark spot corrector that instantly brightens skin with a loftier-potency formula that absorbs quickly to deliver the highest concentration of Vitamin C, helping to gently diminish the wait of nighttime spots and discoloration.

Uploaded by: kelseybels on ten/xx/2020

Ingredients overview

H2o, Dimethicone, Aluminum Starch Octenylsuccinate, Dimethicone Crosspolymer, Ammonium Acryloyldimethyltaurate/​VP Copolymer, Trisiloxane, Nylon-12, Ascorbyl Glucoside, C12-fifteen Alkyl Benzoate, Glycerin, Caprylyl Glycol, Polyacrylamide, Xanthan Gum, C13-14 Isoparaffin, Fragrance, Sodium Hyaluronate, Sodium Lactate, Hydrolyzed Myrtus Communis Leaf Extract, Sodium Hydroxide, BHT, Disodium EDTA, Laureth-seven, Polysorbate 20, Retinol, Sodium PCA, Sorbitol, Proline, Mica, Titanium Dioxide

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Ingredient name	what-it-does	irr., com.	ID-Rating
H2o	solvent
Dimethicone	emollient	0, 1
Aluminum Starch Octenylsuccinate	viscosity controlling
Dimethicone Crosspolymer	viscosity controlling
Ammonium Acryloyldimethyltaurate/VP Copolymer	viscosity decision-making
Trisiloxane
Nylon-12	viscosity controlling
Ascorbyl Glucoside	antioxidant, peel brightening		goodie
C12-15 Alkyl Benzoate	emollient, antimicrobial/​antibacterial
Glycerin	skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant	0, 0	superstar
Caprylyl Glycol	moisturizer/​humectant, emollient
Polyacrylamide	viscosity controlling
Xanthan Gum	viscosity controlling
C13-14 Isoparaffin	emollient, viscosity controlling, solvent
Fragrance	perfuming		disgusting
Sodium Hyaluronate	pare-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant	0, 0	goodie
Sodium Lactate	buffering, moisturizer/​humectant		goodie
Hydrolyzed Myrtus Communis Leaf Extract
Sodium Hydroxide	buffering
BHT	antioxidant, preservative
Disodium EDTA	chelating
Laureth-7	emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing
Polysorbate 20	emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing	0, 0
Retinol	prison cell-communicating ingredient		superstar
Sodium PCA	skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant	0, 0	goodie
Sorbitol	moisturizer/​humectant	0, 0
Proline	skin-identical ingredient		goodie
Mica	colorant
Titanium Dioxide	sunscreen, colorant		goodie

Neutrogena Rapid Tone Repair Nighttime Spot Corrector

Ingredients explained

Likewise-called: Aqua | What-it-does: solvent

Good old water, aka H2O. The well-nigh common skincare ingredient of all. You tin normally find information technology right in the very outset spot of the ingredient list, meaning it'southward the biggest thing out of all the stuff that makes up the product.

It's mainly a solvent for ingredients that practice not like to deliquesce in oils merely rather in water.

Once inside the peel, it hydrates, simply not from the outside - putting pure water on the skin (hello long baths!) is drying.

One more than thing: the water used in cosmetics is purified and deionized (it means that well-nigh all of the mineral ions within it is removed). Like this, the products can stay more stable over fourth dimension.

What-it-does: emollient | Irritancy: 0 | Comedogenicity: i

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

Every bit for skincare, it makes the skin 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 give peel a plump wait (of course that is only temporary, only still, it's overnice). There are also scar treatment gels out in that location using dimethicone equally their base of operations ingredient. It helps to soften scars and increment their elasticity.

As for hair care, it is a non-volatile silicone meaning that it stays on the hair rather than evaporates from it andsmoothes the hair similar no other thing. Depending on your pilus type, it can bea scrap difficult to wash out and might cause some build-up (btw, this is non true to all silicones, only the not-volatile types).

A handy helper ingredient that comes in a white powder course and works equally an anti-caking and oil-arresting amanuensis. Information technology also gives products practiced spreadability, long lasting and velvet bear upon characteristics. It is popular both in skincare and makeup products.

A loftier-molecular-weight silicone elastomer (safe-like elastic cloth) that is usually blended with a base silicone fluid (such equally dimethicone or cyclopentasiloxane) to give the formula a silky smooth feel and to act as a thickening amanuensis.

A kind of polymer (large molecule from repeated subunits) that helps to create cute gel-similar textures. Information technology's also a texturizer and thickener for oil-in-water emulsions. Information technology gives products a skillful peel feel and does not make the formula tacky or sticky.

It works over a wide pH range and is used between 0.v-1.2%.

A articulate, colorless, very easily spreadable and very volatile (evaporates from the peel easily) silicone fluid. Information technology leaves a non-greasy, dry-polish feel on the skin.

An  odorless, slightly yellowish powder that's used as a polymer microsphere (a tiny picayune ball from repeated subunits). It gives products an elegant, silky texture and better sideslip. Information technology can too scatter light to blur fine lines while letting enough light through so that the skin nevertheless looks natural.

A form of skincare superstar, vitamin C. If yous practise not know why vitamin C is such a large deal in skincare, we have a really detailed, geeky description that's skilful to read. :)

And so at present you know that because pure vitamin C is such a diva (very unstable and difficult to formulate) the corrective industry is trying to come up up with some derivatives that have the badass anti-aging properties of vitamin C (antioxidant protection + collagen boosting + fading hyperpigmentation) but without the disadvantages. This is a hard chore, and there is not yet a derivative that is really proven to be better in every aspect, simply Ascorbyl Glucoside is i of the best options when information technology comes to vitamin C derivatives. Let'due south encounter why:

Offset, information technology'southward really stable and like shooting fish in a barrel to codify,and then the bug that come with pure vitamin C are solved here.

2d, in vitro (meaning made in the lab, not on real humans) studies show that ascorbyl glucoside can penetrate the pare. This is kind of important for an anti-aging ingredient to practice the job, so this is good news, though in-vivo (made on real humans) studies are even so needed.

Third, in-vitro studies show that later on ascorbyl glucoside is absorbed into the pare it is converted to pure vitamin C (though the rate of conversion is still a question marking). It alsoshows all the iii anti-aging benefits (antioxidant protection + collagen boosting + fading hyperpigmentation) that pure vitamin C does.

Lesser line: ascorbyl glucoside is i of the all-time and nigh promising vitamin C derivatives that shows similar benefits to that of pure vitamin C, but it's less proven (in vivo vs. in vitro studies) and the extent of the benefits are too not the same.

An frequently used emollient with a light and silky feel. Information technology's very mild to both peel and optics and spreads nicely and easily. It's frequently used in sunscreens every bit information technology's also an first-class solvent for sunscreen agents.

• A natural moisturizer that'south also in our skin
• A super common, rubber, effective and cheap molecule used for more than 50 years
• Not only a elementary moisturizer just knows much more than: keeps the skin lipids between our peel cells in a healthy (liquid crystal) state, protects against irritation, helps to restore bulwark
• Constructive from as low as three% with even more benefits at college concentrations up to twenty-40% (around x% is a skilful usability-effectiveness sweet spot)
• High-glycerin moisturizers are awesome for treating severely dry pare

Read all the geeky details almost Glycerin hither >>

It'due south a handy multi-tasking ingredient that gives the skin a nice, soft feel. At the same time, it also boosts the effectiveness of other preservatives, such as the nowadays super commonly used phenoxyethanol.

The blend of these ii (caprylyl glycol + phenoxyethanol) is called Optiphen, which not simply helps to keep your cosmetics free from nasty things for a long fourth dimension but likewise gives a good feel to the finished product. It's a pop duo.

It'due south a film-forming and thickening polymer (a large molecule composed of many repeated subunits) that comes to the formula unremarkably as part of an emulsifier, thickener trio (with C13-14 Isoparaffin and Laureth-7, trade named Sepigel 305). This trio is an like shooting fish in a barrel-to-use liquid that helps to create prissy, not-tacky gel formulas.

Information technology'southward ane of the virtually commonly used thickeners and emulsion stabilizers. If the product is likewise runny, a little xanthan gum will make it more gel-similar. Used alone, information technology can make the formula mucilaginous and information technology is a good team player so it is unremarkably combined with other thickeners and and so-called rheology modifiers (helper ingredients that adjust the flow and thus the feel of the formula). The typical use level of Xantha Mucilage is below i%, it is normally 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. Information technology's canonical by Ecocert and besides used in the food manufacture (E415).

It's a petroleum derived emollient and thickener. It ofttimes comes to the formula equally part of an emulsifier, thickener trio (with Polyacrylamide and Laureth-7). This trio is an easy-to-use liquid that helps to create overnice, not-tacky gel formulas.

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

Exactly what it sounds: nice smelling stuff put into cosmetic products then that the finish product as well smells dainty. Fragrance in the U.s.a. and parfum in the EU is a generic term on the ingredient list that is fabricated up of xxx to 50 chemicals on boilerplate (but it tin have as much every bit 200 components!).

If you are someone who likes to know what you put on your face up and then fragrance is not your all-time friend - at that place's no style to know what'due south really in it.

Too, if your skin is sensitive, fragrance is once again not your best friend. It'south the number one cause of contact allergy to cosmetics. It'south definitely a smart affair to avoid with sensitive pare (and fragrance of any type - natural is merely equally allergic as constructed, if not worse!).

Information technology's the - sodium grade - cousin of the famous NMF, hyaluronic acid (HA). If HA does not tell yous anything we have a super detailed, geeky explanation most information technology here.  The TL; DR version of HA is that information technology's a huge polymer (big molecule from repeated subunits) found in the pare that acts every bit a sponge helping the skin to hold onto h2o, being plump and elastic. HA is famous for its crazy water holding capacity equally it tin can bind up to m times its own weight in h2o.

Every bit far as skincare goes, sodium hyaluronate and hyaluronic acrid are pretty much the same and the two names are used interchangeably. Equally cosmetic pharmacist kindofstephen writes on reddit  "sodium hyaluronate disassociates into hyaluronic acid molecule and a sodium cantlet in solution".

In spite of this, if you search for "hyaluronic acid vs sodium hyaluronate" you will notice on multiple places that sodium hyaluronate is smaller and can penetrate the skin better. Chemically, this is definitely not true, equally the 2 forms are nearly the same, both are polymers and the subunits can be repeated in both forms equally much as yous like. (We too checked Prospector for sodium hyaluronate versions actually used in cosmetic products and plant that the most common molecular weight was 1.5-1.8 million Da that absolutely counts as loftier molecular weight).

What seems to be a truthful departure, though, is that the common salt form is more than stable, easier to formulate and cheaper so it pops up more often on the ingredient lists.

If y'all wanna become a real HA-and-the-skin expert you tin can read style more near the topic at hyaluronic acid (including penetration-questions, differences between high and depression molecular weight versions and a agglomeration of references to scientific literature).

The sodium salt of lactic acid. It's a great skin moisturizer and also used to regulate the pH value of the cosmetic formula. It'due south a natural ingredient approved by both ECOCERT and COSMOS.

We don't have description for this ingredient yet.

As well-called: lye | What-information technology-does: buffering

The unfancy name for it is lye. It's a solid white stuff that's very alkaline metal and used in small-scale amounts to adjust the pH of the product and make it merely right.

For example, in instance of AHA or BHA exfoliants, the right pH is super-duper important, and pH adjusters like sodium hydroxide are needed.

BTW, lye is not something new. It was already used by ancient Egyptians to aid oil and fat magically turn into something else. Can you guess what? Aye, information technology's soap. It still often shows up in the ingredient list of soaps and other cleansers.

Sodium hydroxide in itself is a potent skin irritant, but in one case it's reacted (equally it is usually in peel care products, similar exfoliants) information technology is totally harmless.

It's the acronym for Butylated Hydroxy Toluene. It'due south a common synthetic antioxidant that's used equally a preservative.

There is some controversy around BHT. It's not a new ingredient, it has been used both as a food and cosmetics condiment since the 1970s. Enough of studies tried to examine if it'southward a carcinogen or not. This Truth in Aging article details the state of affairs and also writes that all these studies examine BHT when taken orally.

Every bit for cosmetics, the CIR (Cosmetic Ingredient Review) concluded that the amount of BHT used in corrective products is low (usually around 0.01-0.one%),  information technology does not penetrate skin far enough to be absorbed into the bloodstream and it is safety to use in cosmetics.

Super common little helper ingredient thathelps products to remain nice and stable for a longer time. Information technology does so by neutralizing the metallic ions in the formula (that usually get into there from water) that would otherwise crusade some not and then nice changes.

It is typically used in tiny amounts, around 0.one% or less.

A not-very-interesting helper ingredient that is used as an emulsifier and/or surfactant. Comes from a coconut oil derived fatty alcohol, lauryl alcohol.

It'southward a common little helper ingredient that helps water and oil to mix together. Likewise, it can help to increment the solubility of some other ingredients in the formula.

• Retinol (pure Vitamin A) is probably the most proven anti-aging ingredient available OTC
• It has to be converted in the peel to retinoic acid to work its magic
• In one case converted, it has the aforementioned consequence equally all-trans-retinoic acrid, aka tretinoin
• A generally accepted ballpark number is that retinol is 10-to-twenty times less potent than retinoic acrid
• It makes skin less wrinkled, smoother, firmer and tighter
• It might as well be helpful for acne prone skin equally it normalizes keratinization and makes the pores produce less sebum
• Possible side effects and irritation are likewise much less than with retinoic acrid
• Practice not use whilst pregnant

Read all the geeky details near Retinol here >>

PCA stands for Pyrrolidone Carboxylic Acid and though it might non audio like it, it is a matter that tin can be found naturally in our skin. The sodium salt grade of PCA is an of import skin-identical ingredient and great natural moisturizer that helps the skin to hold onto water and stay nicely hydrated.

It's a sweet tasting sugar substitute that helps your skin to hold onto h2o when used in corrective products. It also helps to thicken upwardly products and requite them a chip more than slip.

A non-essential amino acid (meaning that our body tin can produce it) that'south also ane of the major edifice blocks of collagen. Co-ordinate to the Futurederm blog, it might be able to improve wrinkles when combined with other amino acids, glycine and leucine

Also-called: CI 77019 | What-it-does: colorant

A super versatile and common mineral powder that comes in dissimilar particle sizes. It is a multi-tasker used to better skin feel, increase production slip, give the product light-reflecting properties, enhance skin adhesion or serve as an anti-caking agent.

It is as well the about commonly used "base" material for layered blended pigments such as pearl-effect pigments. In this case, mica is coated with one or more metal oxides (virtually commonly titanium dioxide) to achieve pearl result via the physical miracle known every bit interference.

Titanium Dioxide is one of the two members of the elite sunscreen group called physical sunscreens (or inorganic sunscreens if y'all're a science geek and want to exist precise).

Traditionally, UV-filters are categorized as either chemical or physical. The big divergence is supposed to exist that chemical agents absorb UV-light while physical agents reflect information technology similar a bunch of mini umbrellas on top of the skin. While this categorization is piece of cake and logical information technology turns out it's non true. A recent, 2022 written report shows that inorganic sunscreens work generally by absorption, just like chemical filters, and only a little bit by reflection (they exercise reflect the lite in the visible spectrum, simply mostly absorb in the UV spectrum).

Anyhow, it doesn't thing if information technology reflects or absorbs, Titanium Dioxide is a pretty awesome sunscreen agent for two master reasons: it gives a squeamish broad spectrum coverage and it's highly stable. Its protection is very practiced between 290 - 350 nm (UVB and UVA II range), and less good at 350-400 nm (UVA I) range. Regular sized Titanium Dioxide too has a great safety profile, it's non-irritating and is pretty much gratuitous from any health concerns (like estrogenic effect worries with some chemical filters).

The disadvantage of Titanium Dioxide is that information technology's not cosmetically elegant, significant it's a white, "unspreadable" mess. Sunscreens containingTitanium Dioxide are often hard to spread on the skin and they leave a disturbing whitish tint. The cosmetic industry is, of grade, really trying to solve this trouble and the all-time solution so far is using nanoparticles. The itsy-bitsy Nano-sized particles improve both spreadability and reduce the whitish tint a lot, but unfortunately, it also introduces new health concerns.

The main business concern with nanoparticles is that they are and so tiny that they are absorbed into the skin more than than nosotros want them (ideally sunscreen should remain on the surface of the skin). One time absorbed they might grade unwanted complexes with proteins and they might promote the formation of evil free radicals. But do not panic, these are concerns nether investigation. A 2009 review article almost the safety of nanoparticles summarizes this, "to date, in-vivo and in-vitro studies have not demonstrated percutaneous penetration of nanosized particles in titanium dioxide and zinc oxide sunscreens". The English translation is, so far it looks like sunscreens with nanoparticles practise stay on the surface of the skin where they should be.

All in all, Titanium Dioxide is a famous sunscreen agent and for adept reason, it gives broad spectrum UV protection (best at UVB and UVA 2), it's highly stable, and it has a good safety profile. Information technology's definitely one of the best UV-filter agents nosotros take today, peculiarly in the United states of america where new-generation Tinosorb filters are not (yet) canonical.

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Normal (well kind of - information technology'south purified and deionized) water. Usually the master solvent in cosmetic products. [more]

A very common silicone that gives both skin and pilus a silky smooth experience. It besides forms a protective barrier on the skin and fills in fine lines. Also used for scar treatment. [more]

A handy helper ingredient that comes in a white powder form and works equally an anti-caking and oil-absorbing agent. It also gives products good spreadability, long lasting and velvet touch characteristics.

A loftier-molecular-weight silicone elastomer (safety-similar rubberband material) that is commonly blended with a base of operations silicone fluid (such as dimethicone or cyclopentasiloxane) to give the formula a silky shine feel and to human activity every bit a thickening agent. [more]

A kind of polymer (large molecule from repeated subunits) that helps to create beautiful gel-similar textures. It'south also a texturizer and thickener for oil-in-water emulsions. [more]

A articulate, colorless, very easily spreadable and very volatile (evaporates from the peel easily) silicone fluid. It leaves a non-greasy, dry-smooth feel on the skin.

A polymer microsphere that gives products an elegant, silky texture. Can also besprinkle lite to blur fine lines. [more than]

A stable and easy to formulate form of skincare superstar, vitamin C. In-vitro studies bear witness that information technology shows all the three anti-crumbling benefits (antioxidant protection + collagen boosting + fading hyperpigmentation) that pure vitamin C does. [more]

An ofttimes used emollient with a calorie-free and silky feel. It's very balmy to both pare and optics and spreads nicely and easily. It's often used in sunscreens every bit it'south also an excellent solvent for sunscreen agents.

A existent oldie but a goodie. Great natural moisturizer and skin-identical ingredient that plays an important role in pare hydration and general skin wellness. [more]

A handy multi-tasking ingredient that gives the skin a dainty, soft feel and besides boosts the effectiveness of other preservatives. [more than]

A moving picture-forming and thickening polymer (a big molecule composed of many repeated subunits) that comes to the formula usually as role of an emulsifier, thickener trio. [more]

A super commonly used thickener and emulsion stabilizer. [more]

A petroleum-derived emollient and thickener. It ofttimes comes to the formula as office of an emulsifier, thickener trio. [more]

The generic term for nice smelling stuff put into corrective products so that the end product besides smells nice. It is made up of 30 to 50 chemicals on boilerplate. [more]

It'south the table salt course of famous humectant and natural moisturizing factor, hyaluronic acid. Information technology can bind huge amounts of h2o and it's pretty much the current IT-moisturizer. [more]

The sodium salt of lactic acid. It's a neat skin moisturizer and also used to regulate the pH value of the cosmetic formula. [more]

Lye - A solid white stuff that'southward very alkaline metal and used in pocket-sized amount to adjust the pH of the production.  [more than]

It'south the acronym for Butylated Hydroxy Toluene. It'southward a common synthetic antioxidant that'south used as a preservative.There is some controversy around BHT. [more]

Super mutual lilliputian helper ingredient that helps products to remain nice and stable for a longer time. It does so past neutralizing the metal ions in the formula (that usually get into there from water) that would otherwise cause some non so overnice changes. [more]

A not-very-interesting helper ingredient that is used as an emulsifier and/or surfactant. Comes from a coconut oil derived fat alcohol, lauryl alcohol. [more]

It's a common little helper ingredient that helps water and oil to mix together. Besides, it can assistance to increment the solubility of some other ingredients in the formula.

Vitamin A - the most proven anti-crumbling ingredient available OTC that can polish wrinkles and make pare firmer. It might also be useful for acne-prone skin as it normalizes keratinization. [more than]

It's an important skin-identical ingredient and peachy natural moisturizer that helps the pare to concur onto water and stay nicely hydrated. [more]

It's a sweet tasting saccharide substitute that helps your skin to agree onto water when used in cosmetic products. It also helps to thicken upwards products and give them a bit more than slip.  [more than]

A non-essential amino acid (meaning that our trunk can produce it) that might exist able to amend wrinkles combined with other amino acids, glycine and leucine. [more than]

A mineral powder used to better skin experience, increase product slip, requite the product some light-reflecting properties, enhance skin adhesion or serve every bit an anti-caking agent. A real multi-tasker. [more]

A physical/inorganic sunscreen with pretty broad spectrum (UVB and UVA Ii, less skillful at UVA I) protection and good stability. Might get out some whitish tint on the skin, though. [more]

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