The Best Beauty ingredients You Will Love: Glossary of V

Skin & Hair Glossary of ingredients & terms. Defining what ingredients are and how to best use them. Updated regularly.

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Verbascum thapsus

Vacinnium macrocarpon

Cranberry Seed Oil, also known as Vacinnium macrocarpon.  

Cranberry oil is an antioxidant that protects the lipid barrier. It contains a high fatty acid profile with Omegas 3, 6, and 9. High in Vitamins and E, it tackles age spots and promotes skin elasticity.

Verbascum Thapsus

Verbascum Thapsus is also known as the Mullen plant.  In skincare, it provides a plant-based, skin-protecting anti-oxidant.

Veronica Officinalis Extract

Veronica Officinalis Extract is a wildflower that contains Vitamins C, E, and K to condition and heal the skin. It is very gentle to skin.

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

Vitamin A in skincare is also called retinol or retinoic acid. Vitamin A has antioxidant properties.

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. Also known as Panthenol, it is a humectant that fosters skin healing [1] and smoothes the hair cuticle. Panthenol improves hair elasticity, moisture retention and flexibility.

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.

Vitis Vinifera

Vitis Vinifera is Grape Seed Oil. 

Grape Seed Oil is nourishing to the skin and contains building blocks for collagen production. Grape Seed Oil contains very high antioxidant levels to protect the skin against UV damage.

High in Polyphenols, Vitamins C, D, E and Omega 6, it treats dry skin, wrinkles, discoloration, and aging.

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References

1. The Journal of Dermatological Treatment, August 2016, pages 1-7; and December 2002, pages 173-178