First Aid Beauty Acne Clearing Pads 2% Salicylic Acid

First Aid Beauty Acne Clearing Pads 2% Salicylic Acid First Aid Beauty Acne Clearing Pads 2% Salicylic Acid ingredients explained: Water, Polysorbate 80, Phenoxyethanol, Sodium Hydroxide, Sodium Citrate, Kaolin, Salix Nigra (Willow) Bark Extract, Rosmarinus Officinalis (Rosemary) Leaf Essential Oil, Butylene Glycol, Sodium Benzoate, Potassium Sorbate, Glycerin, Melaleuca Alternifolia (Tea Tree) Leaf Oil, Capryloyl Glycine, Hexylene Glycol, Epilobium Angustifolium Flower/Leaf/Stem Extract, Enantia Chlorantha Bark Extract, Citric Acid, Oleanolic Acid Show all ingredients by function Water solvent Polysorbate 80 emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing 0, 0 Phenoxyethanol preservative Sodium Hydroxide buffering Sodium Citrate chelating, buffering Kaolin colorant, abrasive/​scrub goodie Salix Nigra (Willow) Bark Extract Rosmarinus Officinalis (Rosemary) Leaf Essential Oil antioxidant, antimicrobial/​antibacterial icky Butylene Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, solvent 0, 1 Sodium Benzoate Potassium Sorbate Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant superstar Melaleuca Alternifolia (Tea Tree) Leaf Oil soothing, anti-acne, antioxidant, antimicrobial/​antibacterial, perfuming Capryloyl Glycine surfactant/​cleansing Hexylene Glycol solvent, emulsifying, perfuming, surfactant/​cleansing 0-1, 0-2 Epilobium Angustifolium Flower/Leaf/Stem Extract Enantia Chlorantha Bark Extract Citric Acid Oleanolic Acid 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. A common little helper ingredient that helps water and oil to mix together, aka emulsifier. The number at the end refers to the oil-loving part and the bigger the number the more emulsifying power it has. 20 is a weak emulsifier, rather called solubilizer used commonly in toners while 60 and 80 are more common in serums and creams. It’s pretty much the current IT-preservative. It’s safe and gentle, but even more importantly, it’s not a feared-by-everyone-mostly-without-scientific-reason paraben. It’s not something new: it was introduced around 1950 and today it can be used up to 1% worldwide. It can be found in nature - in green tea - but the version used in cosmetics is synthetic. Other than having a good safety profile and being quite gentle to the skin it has some other advantages too. It can be used in many types of formulations as it has great thermal stability (can be heated up to 85°C) and works on a wide range of pH levels (ph 3-10). It’s often used together with ethylhexylglycerin as it nicely improves the preservative activity of phenoxyethanol. The unfancy name for it is lye. It’s a solid white stuff that’s very alkaline and used in small amounts to adjust the pH of the product and make it just right. For example, in case of AHA or BHA exfoliants, the right pH is super-duper important, and pH adjusters like sodium hydroxide are needed. BTW, lye is not something new. It was already used by ancient Egyptians to help oil and fat magically turn into something else. Can you guess what? Yes, it’s soap. It still often shows up in the ingredient list of soaps and other cleansers. Sodium hydroxide in itself is a potent skin irritant, but once it's reacted (as it is usually in skin care products, like exfoliants) it is totally harmless. A little helper ingredient that is used to adjust the pH of the product. It also helps to keep products stay nice longer by neutralizing the metal ions in the formula (they usually come from water). Kaolin is a type of clay or to be precise, a naturally occurring hydrous aluminum silicate. When you hear clay, you probably think of a muddy greenish-black mess, but that one is bentonite, and this one is a fine, white powder. It is so white that it's also often used, in small amounts, as a helper ingredient to give opacity and whiteness to the cosmetic formulas. As a c what‑it‑does emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing irritancy, com. chelating | buffering colorant | abrasive/scrub antioxidant | antimicrobial/antibacterial moisturizer/humectant | solvent skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant soothing | anti-acne | antioxidant | antimicrobial/antibacterial | perfuming surfactant/cleansing solvent | emulsifying | perfuming | surfactant/cleansing

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