First Aid Beauty Body Acne Clearing Mist

First Aid Beauty Body Acne Clearing Mist First Aid Beauty Body Acne Clearing Mist ingredients explained: Salicylic Acid (2%), Water/Aqua/Eau, Glycereth-26, Glycerin, Sodium Hydroxide, Phenoxyethanol, Glycolic Acid, Citric Acid, Zinc Pca, Potassium Sorbate, Sodium Benzoate Show all ingredients by function Salicylic Acid (2%) exfoliant, anti-acne, soothing, preservative superstar Water/Aqua/Eau solvent Glycereth-26 moisturizer/​humectant, emollient, viscosity controlling 0, 0 Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant Sodium Hydroxide buffering Phenoxyethanol preservative Glycolic Acid exfoliant, buffering Citric Acid Zinc Pca anti-acne, moisturizer/​humectant goodie Potassium Sorbate Sodium Benzoate It's one of the gold standard ingredients for treating problem skin It can exfoliate skin both on the surface and in the pores It's a potent anti-inflammatory agent It's more effective for treating blackheads than acne For acne combine it with antibacterial agents like benzoyl peroxide or azelaic 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. It's a nice glycerin-based humectant and emollient that gives skin a smooth and luxurious feel. 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 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. 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. It’s the most research what‑it‑does exfoliant | anti-acne | soothing | preservative moisturizer/humectant | emollient | viscosity controlling irritancy, com. skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant exfoliant | buffering anti-acne | moisturizer/humectant

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