Seeing that the year is approaching, various online shoppers have begun to chop their hands online again, and a girlfriend once again recommended a blood-expensive product to his girlfriend - 1400 yuan a bottle of Armani Obsidian Light and Shadow Skin Treatment Cream (1400 yuan / 50mL). Who is Armani? Not to mention its various luxury goods (it can't afford to buy anyway), its cosmetics business has been acquired by L'Oréal, the world's largest cosmetics company, and occupies a place in the L'Oréal Group's luxury cosmetics front. So what is the difference between this BB foundation liquid and the Han Shu BB cream that my girlfriend used before?
From the perspective of raw materials, how much difference between the two is? Let's pull it out!
What's in BB Cream
BB cream can also protect the sun, cover the flaws, but also maintain the skin, with so many mainstream cosmetic effects, how should its identity be positioned? Some industry experts have said that the identity of BB cream is between foundation and barrier cream, and its biggest function is concealer. It can be said that BB cream has the dual attributes of makeup and skin care products, which also determines that in addition to the basic raw materials of conventional skin care products, some makeup raw materials will be used in BB cream. Before differentiating the raw materials, let's first classify the formula of BB cream. Usually, BB cream formulas are divided into three types: water in oil, silicone oil in water, and oil in water. Among them, the oil-saturated BB cream has better water resistance and can make the makeup more durable, while the silicone oil-coated BB cream is characterized by a refreshing and smooth skin. Oil-in-water BB creams are less durable, but feel fresher and easier to apply.
So the question is, what are the ingredients in BB cream?
Aqueous raw materials: Women are made of water, but also need a variety of hydration and moisturizing, which is also an indispensable raw material in a variety of cosmetics, but also the largest proportion of various cosmetic ingredients. Common aqueous raw materials are water, glycerin, propylene glycol, etc., in which water itself has a hydrating effect, and can also become a solvent for other substances. Although glycerin has a "oil" in its name, it is an aqueous raw material of the five elements of water.
Oil phase raw materials: there must be oil, no oil cosmetics can not do the effect of moisturizing the skin, of course, the oil ingredients can also make the cosmetic texture more slippery, easy to apply. At the same time, oil phase raw materials can also play a role in isolating moisture. The more common oil phase raw materials are white mineral oil, squalane, silicone oil, lanolin and so on.
Surfactants: We all know that water and oil are difficult to dissolve, but we also rarely see water and oil delamination in cosmetics because they are put together by something called a surfactant.
In addition to the function of combining oil and water, the surfactant also has the functions of washing, thickening, lubrication and so on. At the same time, they vary in their moderation. Therefore, a variety of surfactants are usually used in cosmetics, and substances such as CI 77163 and PEG-** that are often seen in the list of cosmetic raw materials are mostly surfactants.
Sunscreen: Many BB creams have sun protection functions, and they are also marked with sun protection factors, which means that these products have special sun protection claims and have been tested.
Physical sunscreens that block sunlight by covering up and chemical sunscreens that inhibit melanin production are used in BB creams, and common chemical sunscreens in BB creams with sunscreen effects are butylmethoxydibenzoylmethane, ethylhexyl salicylate, ethylhexyl methoxycinnamate and so on.
A physical sunscreen called titanium dioxide that really needs our attention.
What is titanium dioxide? In fact, it is what we often call titanium dioxide, which is usually used in foundation and powder as a colorant, and it can also be regarded as a makeup raw material. However, the truth is far less simple than we think.
After all, it's the ingredient that makes BB creams work.
Public information shows that nano-scale titanium dioxide has strong color dissipation, covering power, good dispersibility, and non-toxic, tasteless, non-irritating, safe to use, but also has the role of sterilization and deodorization. But didn't we just say in the front that titanium dioxide is a physical sunscreen? And not out of the loop! The almighty pinguanjun will also make a cameo appearance in the united states, and the titanium dioxide of the bull gas can also effectively block ultraviolet rays. Therefore, titanium dioxide plays a dual role of colorant and sunscreen in BB cream, and you know why BB cream has such a magical effect.
Colorants: Colorants are the raw materials used for coloring in makeup, in addition to titanium dioxide, BB cream will also add some other pigments, such as iron oxides, chrome green and so on. This also means that BB Cream is actually a product that needs to remove makeup.
Efficacy raw materials: BB cream is a product between makeup and skin care products, it also has a certain skin care effect, where does the skin care effect come from? Of course, it is a variety of functional raw materials. Pin GuanJun will not elaborate on them all.
Other ingredients: Like all cosmetics, BB creams should also be added with preservatives and various flavors, otherwise it will really be useless.
How much is the difference between the cost of 125 yuan / stick of Han Shuhong BB pair and 1400 / bottle of Armani?
It's all BB cream, why is the price gap so big? Is the price 10 times more expensive than Han Shuhong BB just because Armani is a luxury brand?
Pinguanjun or take a good look at it, let's first look at the ingredient list of two products:
From the raw material table alone, the basic raw materials used in the two BB creams are much the same, and the water, glycerin, sodium hyaluronate and some surfactants seen in the Han Shu Red BB appear in the raw material table of Armani Obsidian Light and Shadow Beauty Skin Cream (hereinafter referred to as Armani BB Cream). Of course, this does not mean that the two use the same raw materials, the same raw materials with different manufacturers and different specifications have the same name in the raw material table, but the actual price can be tens or even hundreds of times the price.
It is worth noting that the titanium dioxide for covering, sunscreen and coloring that we have just highlighted does not appear in the formula table of Armani BB cream, and Armani BB cream uses boron nitride. In terms of price, boron nitride can be more than 10 times higher than dioxide or even more. Meanwhile, Isohexadecane, used in Armani BB creams, is a high-purity isoparaffin emollient and solvent used in cosmetics and skincare products, while diisoglum malate is a high-grade oil. It can be said that armani, as a luxury brand, is quite particular about the materials. It should also be noted that Armani BB cream products are imported from abroad, and the production and processing costs will be relatively higher than those of domestic products. It seems that it is also reasonable to be expensive. Of course, this is not to say that Han Shuhong BB is inferior to Armani's products, let's continue to see.
Han Shuhong BB does not lose Armani
From the perspective of the types of materials used in the two BB creams, we can obviously feel that the formula of Armani Obsidian Light and Shadow Beauty Skin Repair Cream is much simpler than the formula of Han Shuhong BB, and we can boldly guess that the effect of Armani BB Cream is relatively single.
At the same time, in the formula table of Armani BB cream, many excipients will be ranked higher, such as aluminum hydroxide is a filler, which does not have a cosmetic effect itself, while trihydroxystearin is a substance that inhibits crystallization, and even fragrances are ranked relatively high. And rhamnosus, mannose, trehalose and many other ingredients that look like gimmicks are ranked behind preservatives, which shows that their addition to this BB cream is relatively limited. All these further verify the conjecture of Pin Guanjun. It can be said that from the perspective of the raw material table, Armani BB cream can be positioned as a BB cream product with relatively basic efficacy. It can meet the basic functions of BB creams such as concealer and moisturizing.
Relatively speaking, the efficacy of Han ShuHong BB is more comprehensive, in addition to the common hydrating and moisturizing substances, we also see whitening substances such as red blessol and arbutin in the formula table of Han Shuhong BB. At the same time, the amount of black ganoderma lucidum extract, palm tree bark extract, such a nourishing effect substance is also significantly higher than that of flavors, preservatives and other raw materials. It can be speculated that Han Shu Red BB Cream is more directive in terms of whitening and nourishing effects.
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