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Paula's Choice Perfect Cleansing Oil Versus CeraVe Hydrating Foaming Oil Cleanser

Paula's Choice Perfect Cleansing Oil Versus CeraVe Hydrating Foaming Oil Cleanser This oil-based makeup remover is made to dissolve makeup, sunscreen, and daily buildup. This mild foaming cleanser is made to cleanse without leaving your skin tight or dry. What

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Paula's Choice Perfect Cleansing Oil Versus CeraVe Hydrating Foaming Oil Cleanser

This oil-based makeup remover is made to dissolve makeup, sunscreen, and daily buildup.

This mild foaming cleanser is made to cleanse without leaving your skin tight or dry.

What's inside

Key Ingredients

Benefits

Concerns

Ingredients Side-by-side

Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride

Helianthus Annuus Seed Oil

Mipa-Laureth Sulfate

Laureth-4

Laureth-7

Triethylhexanoin

Cocos Nucifera Fruit Extract

Limnanthes Alba Seed Oil

Simmondsia Chinensis Seed Oil

Vitis Vinifera

Butyrospermum Parkii Butter Unsaponifiables

Tocopherol

Phenoxyethanol

Ethylhexylglycerin

Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Helianthus Annuus Seed Oil, Mipa-Laureth Sulfate, Laureth-4, Laureth-7, Triethylhexanoin, Cocos Nucifera Fruit Extract, Limnanthes Alba Seed Oil, Simmondsia Chinensis Seed Oil, Vitis Vinifera, Butyrospermum Parkii Butter Unsaponifiables, Tocopherol, Phenoxyethanol, Ethylhexylglycerin

Water

Glycerin

PEG-200 Hydrogenated Glyceryl Palmate

Coco-Betaine

Disodium Cocoyl Glutamate

PEG-120 Methyl Glucose Dioleate

Polysorbate 20

PEG-7 Glyceryl Cocoate

Squalane

Ceramide NP

Ceramide AP

Ceramide EOP

Carbomer

Triethyl Citrate

Sodium Chloride

Sodium Hydroxide

Sodium Cocoyl Glutamate

Sodium Benzoate

Sodium Lauroyl Lactylate

Sodium Hyaluronate

Cholesterol

Citric Acid

Capryloyl Glycine

Hydroxyacetophenone

Caprylyl Glycol

Trisodium Ethylenediamine Disuccinate

Phytosphingosine

Xanthan Gum

Benzoic Acid

PEG-150 Pentaerythrityl Tetrastearate

PPG-5-Ceteth-20

PEG-6 Caprylic/Capric Glycerides

Water, Glycerin, PEG-200 Hydrogenated Glyceryl Palmate, Coco-Betaine, Disodium Cocoyl Glutamate, PEG-120 Methyl Glucose Dioleate, Polysorbate 20, PEG-7 Glyceryl Cocoate, Squalane, Ceramide NP, Ceramide AP, Ceramide EOP, Carbomer, Triethyl Citrate, Sodium Chloride, Sodium Hydroxide, Sodium Cocoyl Glutamate, Sodium Benzoate, Sodium Lauroyl Lactylate, Sodium Hyaluronate, Cholesterol, Citric Acid, Capryloyl Glycine, Hydroxyacetophenone, Caprylyl Glycol, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Trisodium Ethylenediamine Disuccinate, Phytosphingosine, Xanthan Gum, Benzoic Acid, PEG-150 Pentaerythrityl Tetrastearate, PPG-5-Ceteth-20, PEG-6 Caprylic/Capric Glycerides

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Ingredients Explained

These ingredients are found in both products.

Ingredients higher up in an ingredient list are typically present in a larger amount.

Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride (aka MCT Oil) is a lightweight emollient, solvent, and texture enhancer. It is considered a skin-softener by helping to prevent moisture loss.

Though it behaves like an oil, it is not technically one due to its chemical composition. One perk of this ingredient is that it is very stable, resistant to oxidation, and unlikely to go rancid.

In practice, that translates to a long shelf life and a consistently elegant skin feel.

While there is an assumption Caprylic Triglyceride can clog pores due to it being derived from coconut oil, there is no research supporting this. Just patch test if you have concerns.

Fractionated coconut oil and MCT Oil are both listed as Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride according to INCI. This is because INCI names are based on the ingredient’s final chemical composition and not its marketing name or source.

This ingredient is treated as the gold standard fungal acne safe oil. Even though it is coconut derived, the problematic lauric acid is stripped out.

This leaves just caprylic (C8) and capric (C10) acid. These chain lengths actually trend antifungal; a 2020 study found caprylic acid was enough to disrupt Malassezia furfur cell membrane, with a caprylic acid derivative damaging membrane structures at concentrations as low as 0.2%.

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Ingredients & structured notes

Ingredient index

Paula's Choice Resist Skin Firming Line MinimizerIngredients 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 natural moisturizer that’s also in our skin
  7. 07A super common, safe, effective and cheap molecule used for more than 50 years
  8. 08Not only a simple moisturizer but knows much more: keeps the skin lipids between our skin cells in a healthy (liquid crystal) state, protects against irritation, helps to restore barrier
  9. 09Effective from as low as 3% with even more benefits for dry skin at higher concentrations up to 20-40%
  10. 10High-glycerin moisturizers are awesome for treating severely dry skin
  11. 11A multi-functional skincare superstar with several proven benefits for the skin
  12. 12Great anti-aging, wrinkle smoothing ingredient used at 4-5% concentration
  13. 13Fades brown spots alone or in combination with amino sugar, acetyl glucosamine
  14. 14Increases ceramide synthesis that results in a stronger, healthier skin barrier and better skin hydration
  15. 15Can help to improve several skin conditions including acne, rosacea, and atopic dermatitis
  16. 16We don't have description for this ingredient yet.
  17. 17It’s the - sodium form - cousin of the famous NMF, hyaluronic acid (HA). If HA does not tell you anything we have a super detailed, geeky explanation about it here. The TL; DR version of HA is that it's a huge polymer (big molecule from repeated sub…
  18. 18As far as skincare goes, sodium hyaluronate and hyaluronic acid are pretty much the same and the two names are used interchangeably. As cosmetic chemist kindofstephen writes on reddit "sodium hyaluronate disassociates into hyaluronic acid molecule a…
  19. 19In spite of this, if you search for "hyaluronic acid vs sodium hyaluronate" you will find on multiple places that sodium hyaluronate is smaller and can penetrate the skin better. Chemically, this is definitely not true, as the two forms are almost t…
  20. 20What seems to be a true difference, though, is that the salt form is more stable, easier to formulate and cheaper so it pops up more often on the ingredient lists.
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