Skin & Hair Glossary of ingredients & terms. Defining what ingredients are and how to best use them. Updated regularly.
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- Vinotherapy, Vinotherapie
- Vinotherapy is an anti-aging treatment where the residue of wine-making (pulps, seeds, and stems) are massaged into the skin to exfoliate, cleanse and impart skin enhancing nutrients. Some Vinotherapy spa treatments include first bathing in a preservative and chemical free wine to soak in free-radical fighting nutrients. The polyphenols protect the skin against oxidation and preserve natural hyaluronic acid. Vinotherapy is helpful for skin that has been compromised to help restore the skin barrier to function.
- Viscosity
- Viscosity is the state of being thick, sticky, or semi-fluid. The texture of a liquid or cream product.
- Vitamin A
- Viscosity is the state of being thick, sticky, or semi-fluid. The texture of a liquid or cream product.
- Vitamin B3
- Vitamin B3 is a powerful anti-inflammatory that reduces the redness and puffiness in acne, irritated skin, and blotchy skin.
- Vitamin B5
- Vitamin B5 helps soothe and regenerate skin.
- Vitamin E
- Vitamin E softens skin texture and reduces acne scars. Vitamin E makes old acne scars softer and more pliable. Vitamin E makes rough, sunburned, scarred or otherwise damaged skin soft and pliable. Once the skin is pliable, other treating ingredients can work their magic.