What is "COLLAGEN AMINO ACIDS" and what does it do?

Role: HUMECTANT/TEXTURE

Family: Natural or hemisynthesized polymer

Comedogenic index: 0

Amino acids are also the building blocks of proteins, like collagen, so when you carefully cut up a large collagen molecule, you get a mixture of amino acids, like the one we're talking about here. On the other hand, if you cut it less carefully, you get hydrolyzed collagen, a kind of peptide mixture with small chains of amino acids.

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