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Paula's Choice Moisture Renewal Oil Booster Versus The INKEY List Squalane Oil

Paula's Choice Moisture Renewal Oil Booster Versus The INKEY List Squalane Oil This hydrating oil is formulated around Simmondsia Chinensis Seed Oil and Ceramide Ns to hydrate skin and strengthen the skin barrier. This hydrating oil is formulated around Squala

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Paula's Choice Moisture Renewal Oil Booster Versus The INKEY List Squalane Oil

This hydrating oil is formulated around Simmondsia Chinensis Seed Oil and Ceramide Ns to hydrate skin and strengthen the skin barrier.

This hydrating oil is formulated around Squalane to hydrate skin and strengthen the skin barrier.

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Ingredients Side-by-side

Simmondsia Chinensis Seed Oil

Carthamus Tinctorius Seed Oil

Prunus Armeniaca Kernel Oil

Helianthus Annuus Seed Oil

Vaccinium Macrocarpon Seed Oil

Argania Spinosa Kernel Oil

Borago Officinalis Seed Oil

Oenothera Biennis Oil

Echium Plantagineum Seed Oil

Ceramide Ns

Cholesterol

Simmondsia Chinensis Seed Oil, Carthamus Tinctorius Seed Oil, Prunus Armeniaca Kernel Oil, Helianthus Annuus Seed Oil, Vaccinium Macrocarpon Seed Oil, Argania Spinosa Kernel Oil, Borago Officinalis Seed Oil, Oenothera Biennis Oil, Echium Plantagineum Seed Oil, Ceramide Ns, Cholesterol

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Paula's Choice Clear Exfoliating Body SprayIngredients explained

  1. 01Good old water, aka H2O. The most common skincare ingredient of all. You can usually find it right in the very first spot of the ingredient list, meaning it’s the biggest thing out of all the stuff that makes up the product.
  2. 02It’s mainly a solvent for ingredients that do not like to dissolve in oils but rather in water.
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  4. 04Once inside the skin, it hydrates, but not from the outside - putting pure water on the skin (hello long baths!) is drying.
  5. 05One more thing: the water used in cosmetics is purified and deionized (it means that almost all of the mineral ions inside it is removed). Like this, the products can stay more stable over time.
  6. 06A clear, colorless liquid that works as a solvent and viscosity decreasing ingredient. It also has great skin-moisturizing abilities.
  7. 07Butylene glycol, or let’s just call it BG, is a multi-tasking colorless, syrupy liquid. It’s a great pick for creating a nice feeling product.
  8. 08BG’s main job is usually to be a solvent for the other ingredients. Other tasks include helping the product to absorb faster and deeper into the skin (penetration enhancer), making the product spread nicely over the skin (slip agent), and attracting…
  9. 09It’s an ingredient whose safety hasn’t been questioned so far by anyone (at least not that we know about). BG is approved by Ecocert and is also used enthusiastically in natural products. BTW, it’s also a food additive.
  10. 10It's a common little helper ingredient that helps water and oil to mix together. Also, it can help to increase the solubility of some other ingredients in the formula.
  11. 11A multi-functional, silky feeling helper ingredient that can do quite many things. It's used as an emulsion stabilizer, solvent and a broad spectrum antimicrobial. According to manufacturer info, it's also a moisturizer and helps to make the product…
  12. 12It's one of the gold standard ingredients for treating problem skin
  13. 13It can exfoliate skin both on the surface and in the pores
  14. 14It's a potent anti-inflammatory agent
  15. 15It's more effective for treating blackheads than acne
  16. 16For acne combine it with antibacterial agents like benzoyl peroxide or azelaic acid
  17. 17An easy-to-formulate, commonly used, nice to have ingredient that’s also called pro-vitamin B5. As you might guess from the “pro” part, it’s a precursor to vitamin B5 (whose fancy name is pantothenic acid).
  18. 18Its main job in skincare products is to moisturise the skin. It’s a humectant meaning that it can help the skin to attract water and then hold onto it. There is also research showing that panthenol can help our skin to produce more lovely lipids tha…
  19. 19Another great thing about panthenol is that it has anti-inflammatory and skin protecting abilities. A study shows that it can reduce the irritation caused by less-nice other ingredients (e.g. fragrance, preservatives or chemical sunscreens) in the p…
  20. 20Research also shows that it might be useful for wound healing as it promotes fibroblast (nice type of cells in our skin that produce skin-firming collagen) proliferation.
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