Your guide to beauty jargon

12 January 2015
By Fashion Quarterly

Do you know your coenzymes from your collagen, your stem cells from your GAGs? We decipher beauty jargon to help you find the best product for your skin.

rhamnose

Rhamnose

How it works: A sugar that thickens the skin by fighting off molecules that break down collagen.

You need it if: Your skin is fragile and crepe-like – and if you’re battling fine lines and wrinkles.

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