Cosmetic formulation ingredients
0 INGREDIENTS · 0 WITH A REFERENCE PAGE · 0 SOURCED TO ORDER
These are raw materials for people who make things: formulators, cosmetic chemists and small brands who buy an ingredient by its INCI name, weigh it into a batch and need to know what it actually is. They are a different product class from the research compounds in the main catalogue, bought by a different person under a different set of rules, so they live here rather than being mixed into that list.
What is actually in this list
Four of the nine entries are trade names, not molecules. Matrixyl 3000, Capixyl, Redensyl and SYN-AKE are trademarked blends or complexes; one of them — Redensyl — contains no peptide at all, and another, Matrixyl 3000, is routinely confused with the original Matrixyl, which is a completely different peptide with a completely different (and much better) evidence base. Each ingredient page names the actual constituents, says which part is trademarked and which part is the active, and does not carry the older molecule’s literature across to the newer trade name.
The remaining five are single, defined substances: three synthetic peptides (Acetyl Hexapeptide-8, Acetyl Octapeptide-3, Acetyl Tetrapeptide-3), one copper-peptide complex (AHK-Cu), and one polysaccharide that is not a peptide at all (hyaluronic acid). Every ingredient page carries a reference-data table built from the public chemical record — sequence or constituents, molecular formula, molecular weight, CAS number, appearance — with any field we could not source left out and marked as such rather than filled in from memory.
How honest the evidence is, ingredient by ingredient
This is the part most ingredient pages skip. The published evidence behind cosmetic actives ranges from a genuinely independent randomised trial to a PDF on a supplier’s website, and the marketing rarely distinguishes between the two. Each page states which it is, how many subjects were involved, and who paid. In summary, across these nine:
- Best documented: hyaluronic acid, which has an independent Cosmetic Ingredient Review safety assessment and independently-run randomised topical trials.
- Real but small and mostly industry-linked: Acetyl Hexapeptide-8 (Argireline) and the palmitoyl-peptide family behind the Matrixyl names — published studies exist, but the founding ones came from the parties who designed or sold the material.
- Primarily supplier technical files: Capixyl and Redensyl. The headline trials quoted for both are documents published by Lucas Meyer Cosmetics and Givaudan respectively, not peer-reviewed papers.
- Essentially nothing standalone: SNAP-8, which has no indexed study of its own — it appears in the literature only as one component of multi-ingredient commercial products.
None of that makes an ingredient useless. It does mean a formulator should know which claims can be supported by a citation and which cannot, before printing anything on a label.
The list 0
Availability is read from our stock system as this page loaded. Where a row says Available to order, our supplier lists the material and we have not bought it — no price is shown and no cart is offered, because we would be guessing. Tell us the ingredient and the quantity and we come back with what the supplier can actually provide, the lead time and the price.
| Ingredient | INCI / constituents | Sizes | Availability | Action |
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Sizes are the quantities our supplier lists per vial, not use concentrations. What a formulator would weigh into a batch is a separate question, and each ingredient page states what is actually documented for that material rather than what a brochure recommends.
Questions about these ingredients
What is a “cosmetic peptide”?
Why are these separated from the research-peptide catalogue?
Do you make skin or hair claims for these ingredients?
How do I order something marked “Available to order”?
Why does the evidence section on some of these pages read as sceptical?
The other 0 compounds we can source — the research-peptide list, which is a separate product class from everything on this page — are in the sourcing catalogue.
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