Face facts Vitamin C Eye Cream

Face facts Vitamin C Eye Cream Face facts Vitamin C Eye Cream ingredients explained: Aqua, Paraffinum Liquidum, Cetearyl Alcohol, Glycerin, Glyceryl Stearate, Steareth-20, Xanthan Gum, Ceteareth-6, PEG-40 Sorbitan Stearate, Polyacrylic Acid, Potassium Cetyl Phosphate, DMDM Hydantoin, C13-14 Isoparaffin, Polyacrylamide, Laureth-7, Parfum, Sodium Ascorbyl Phosphate, Benzyl Salicylate, Hexyl Cinnamal, Limonene, Linalool Show all ingredients by function Aqua solvent Paraffinum Liquidum emollient, solvent 0, 0-2 Cetearyl Alcohol emollient, viscosity controlling, emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing 1, 2 Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Glyceryl Stearate emollient, emulsifying 0, 1 Steareth-20 emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing Xanthan Gum viscosity controlling Ceteareth-6 PEG-40 Sorbitan Stearate Polyacrylic Acid Potassium Cetyl Phosphate DMDM Hydantoin preservative icky C13-14 Isoparaffin emollient, viscosity controlling, solvent Polyacrylamide Laureth-7 Parfum perfuming Sodium Ascorbyl Phosphate antioxidant, anti-acne goodie Benzyl Salicylate Hexyl Cinnamal Limonene perfuming, solvent Linalool 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 famous or maybe rather infamous mineral oil. The clear oily liquid that is the "cheap by-product" of refining crude oil and the one that gets a lot of heat for its poor provenance. It is a very controversial ingredient with pros and cons and plenty of myths around it. So let us see them: The pros of mineral oil Trust us, if something is used for more than 100 years in cosmetic products, it has advantages. Chemically speaking, cosmetic grade mineral oil is a complex mixture of highly refined saturated hydrocarbons with C15-50 chain length. It is not merely a "by-product" but rather a specifically isolated part of petroleum that is very pure and inert. It is a great emollient and moisturizer working mainly by occlusivity. Occlusivity is one of the basic mechanisms of how moisturizers work and it means that mineral oil sits on top of the skin and hinders so-called trans-epidermal water loss, i.e water evaporating out of your skin. When compared to heavy-duty plant oil, extra virgin coconut oil, the two of them were equally efficient and safe as moisturizers in treating xerosis, a skin condition connected to very dry skin. The other thing that mineral oil is really good at is being non-irritating to the skin. The chemical composition of plant oils is more complex with many more possible allergens or irritating components, while mineral oil is simple, pure and sensitivity to it is extremely rare. If you check out the classic French pharmacy brands and their moisturizers for the most sensitive, allergy prone skin, they usually contain mineral oil. This is no coincidence. The cons of mineral oil The pros of mineral oil can be interpreted as cons if we look at them from another perspective. Not penetrating the skin but mostly just sitting on top of it and not containing biologically active components, like nice fatty acids and vitamins mean that mineral oil does not "nourish" the skin in the way plant oils do. Mineral oil does not give the skin any extra goodness, it is simply a non-irritating moisturizer working mainly by occlusivity. The myths around mineral oil Badmouthing mineral oil is a favorite sport of many, it is a cheap material and being connected to petrolatum makes it fairly easy to demonize. While it is true that industrial grade mineral oil contains carcinogenic components (so-called poly what‑it‑does emollient | solvent irritancy, com. emollient | viscosity controlling | emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant emollient | emulsifying emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing emollient | viscosity controlling | solvent antioxidant | anti-acne perfuming | solvent

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