Allies of Skin Fresh Slate Brightening Cleanser + Masque

Allies of Skin Fresh Slate Brightening Cleanser + Masque Allies of Skin Fresh Slate Brightening Cleanser + Masque ingredients explained: Aqua (Water), Carthamus Tinctorius (Safflower) Seed Oil, Glycerin, Argania Spinosa (Argan) Kernel Oil, Carbomer, Triethyl Citrate, Lactobacillus Ferment Lysate Filtrate, Hydrolyzed Opuntia Ficus-Indica Flower Extract, Ascorbyl Glucoside, Diglucosyl Gallic Acid, Sodium Hyaluronate (L), Ascophyllum Nodosum Extract, Cassia Angustifolia Seed Polysaccharide, Chondrus Crispus (Carrageenan) Extract, Astaxanthin, Dimethyl Isosorbide, Sodium Cocoyl Hydrolyzed Amaranth Protein, Titanium Dioxide, Pelargonium Graveolens (Geranium) Flower Oil, Vanillin, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Ethylhexylglycerin, Glyceryl Polyacrylate, Caprylhydroxamic Acid, Benzyl Alcohol, Polysorbate 20, Sodium Hydroxide, Phenoxyethanol Show all ingredients by function Aqua (Water) solvent Carthamus Tinctorius (Safflower) Seed Oil antioxidant, emollient 0, 0-2 goodie Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Argania Spinosa (Argan) Kernel Oil Carbomer viscosity controlling 0, 1 Triethyl Citrate perfuming Lactobacillus Ferment Lysate Filtrate soothing Hydrolyzed Opuntia Ficus-Indica Flower Extract abrasive/​scrub Ascorbyl Glucoside antioxidant, skin brightening Diglucosyl Gallic Acid skin brightening Sodium Hyaluronate (L) Ascophyllum Nodosum Extract Cassia Angustifolia Seed Polysaccharide Chondrus Crispus (Carrageenan) Extract moisturizer/​humectant, viscosity controlling Astaxanthin antioxidant Dimethyl Isosorbide solvent, viscosity controlling Sodium Cocoyl Hydrolyzed Amaranth Protein Titanium Dioxide sunscreen, colorant Pelargonium Graveolens (Geranium) Flower Oil icky Vanillin Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride emollient Ethylhexylglycerin preservative Glyceryl Polyacrylate Caprylhydroxamic Acid chelating Benzyl Alcohol preservative, perfuming, solvent, viscosity controlling Polysorbate 20 emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing Sodium Hydroxide buffering Phenoxyethanol Good 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. It’s mainly a solvent for ingredients that do not like to dissolve in oils but rather in water. Expand to read more Once inside the skin, it hydrates, but not from the outside - putting pure water on the skin (hello long baths!) is drying. One 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. The oil coming from the seeds of the yellow flowered safflower plant. Similar to other plant oils, it's loaded with nourishing and moisturizing fatty acids: it's a high linoleic acid oil (70%) and has only smaller amounts of oleic acid (11%) (this might be great for acne-prone skin). It also contains antioxidant vitamin E (44mg/100g alpha-tocopherol). A natural moisturizer that’s also in our skin A super common, safe, effective and cheap molecule used for more than 50 years Not 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 Effective from as low as 3% with even more benefits for dry skin at higher concentrations up to 20-40% High-glycerin moisturizers are awesome for treating severely dry skin When it comes to cosmetic oils and hype, argan oil is for sure leading the way. Dubbed as the "liquid gold of Morocco", we have to admit we have some trouble determining why this oil enjoys such a special miracle status. Not that it's not good, it is good, even great but reading the research about argan and a bunch of other plant oils we just do not see the big, unique differentiating factor (though that might be our fault not reading enough, obvs.) So, argan oil comes from the kernel of the argan fruit that comes from the argan tree that grows only in Morocco. The tree is slow growing and getting the oil is a hard job. The traditional process is that the ripe argan fruits fall from the tree, then goats eat them up and poop out the seeds. The seeds are collected and smashed with a stone to get the kernels inside. This part is the hard one as the seeds have extremely hard shells. Once the kernels are obtained, the oil is pressed out from them (the kernels contain about 50% oil). As for skincare, argan oil is loaded with lots of skin goodies (but so are many other plant oils): it contains 80% nourishing and moisturizing unsaturated fatty acids, mainly oleic (38-50%), linoleic (28-38%) and palmitic (10-18%). It also contains a relatively large amount of antioxidant vitamin E (600-900 mg/kg, about twice as much as olive), small amounts of antioxidant phenols (including caffeic acid, ferulic acid, and epicatechin), as well as some rare sterols with soothing and anti-inflammatory pr what‑it‑does antioxidant | emollient irritancy, com. skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant abrasive/scrub antioxidant | skin brightening moisturizer/humectant | viscosity controlling solvent | viscosity controlling sunscreen | colorant preservative | perfuming | solvent | viscosity controlling emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing

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