Allies of Skin Vitamin C & Omegas Cleansing Balm

Allies of Skin Vitamin C & Omegas Cleansing Balm Allies of Skin Vitamin C & Omegas Cleansing Balm ingredients explained: Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, C15-19 Alkane, Disodium Lauryl Sulfosuccinate, Polyglyceryl-2 Sesquioleate, Polyglyceryl-3 Caprate, Trihydroxystearin, Polyglyceryl-3 Beeswax, Carthamus Tinctorius Seed Oil, Hippophae Rhamnoides Fruit Oil, Tetrahexyldecyl Ascorbate, Vaccinium Myrtillus Seed Oil, Euterpe Oleracea Fruit Oil, Rubus Idaeus Seed Oil, Vitis Vinifera Seed Oil, Tocopherol, Tocopheryl Acetate, Squalene, Glycine Soja Oil, Beta-Sitosterol Show all ingredients by function Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride emollient C15-19 Alkane Disodium Lauryl Sulfosuccinate surfactant/​cleansing Polyglyceryl-2 Sesquioleate emulsifying Polyglyceryl-3 Caprate Trihydroxystearin viscosity controlling Polyglyceryl-3 Beeswax Carthamus Tinctorius Seed Oil antioxidant, emollient 0, 0-2 goodie Hippophae Rhamnoides Fruit Oil Tetrahexyldecyl Ascorbate antioxidant, skin brightening Vaccinium Myrtillus Seed Oil Euterpe Oleracea Fruit Oil Rubus Idaeus Seed Oil Vitis Vinifera Seed Oil Tocopherol antioxidant 0-3, 0-3 Tocopheryl Acetate 0, 0 Squalene skin-identical ingredient, antioxidant, emollient Glycine Soja Oil emollient, perfuming 0, 3 Beta-Sitosterol A super common emollient that makes your skin feel nice and smooth. It comes from coconut oil and glycerin, it’s light-textured, clear, odorless and non-greasy. It’s a nice ingredient that just feels good on the skin, is super well tolerated by every skin type and easy to formulate with. No wonder it’s popular. A nice-feeling, light emollient that makes the skin soft and smooth. It gives a fresh and gliding sensation with a powdery or soft after-feel depending on the exact grade used. It is a popular alternative to replace silicones. Chemically speaking, it is an alkane (stable, non-reacting hydrocarbon) that used to be produced from petrochemicals, but today's versions are typically vegetable based. It is readily biodegradable. A cleansing agent that's popular in "syndet bars" (soapless soaps) for its good foaming properties. It can also improve the mildness of famously aggressive, irritating surfactant, sodium lauryl sulfate (SLS). We don't have description for this ingredient yet. A hydrogenated castor oil derivative that is used as an oil gelling agent. It can thicken up both oils as well as silicones. 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). The oil coming from the pulp of the sea buckthorn berry. It has a pretty unique fatty acid composition: 65% is a combination of the rare Omega-7, aka palmitoleic acid and the more common palmitic acid. Fatty acids give the oil nice moisturizing and skin-protecting abilities. But that's not all the goodness of sea buckthorn oil. It contains antioxidant superstar, Vitamin E (in multiple forms), antioxidant (and orange color giving) pigments beta-carotene and lycopene, as well as skin-soothing and replenishing beta-sitosterol. Expand to read more Btw, used undiluted, it will make your skin orange. All in all, a goodie emollient plant oil. Tetrahexyldecyl Ascorbate is a stable, oil-soluble form of skincare big shot Vitamin C. If you do not know, why Vitamin C is such a big deal in skincare, click here and read all about it. We are massive vitamin C fans and have written about it in excruciating detail. So now, you know that Vitamin C is great and all, but it's really unstable and gives cosmetics companies many headaches. To solve this problem they came up with vitamin C derivatives, and one of them is Tetrahexyldecyl Ascorbate (let's call it THDA in short). It's a really promising candidate (see below), but while reading all the goodness about it in a minute, do not forget that derivatives not only have to be absorbed into the skin but also have to be converted to pure vitamin C (ascorbic acid or AA) and the efficacy of the conversion is often unknown. In addition, vitamin C's three magic properties ( what‑it‑does surfactant/cleansing antioxidant | emollient irritancy, com. antioxidant | skin brightening skin-identical ingredient | antioxidant | emollient emollient | perfuming

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