First Aid Beauty Daily Face Cream

First Aid Beauty Daily Face Cream First Aid Beauty Daily Face Cream ingredients explained: Water, Glyceryl Stearate SE, Glycerin, Squalane, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Dimethicone, Sclerotium Gum, Cetyl Alcohol, Cetearyl Alcohol, Ceramide 3, Caprylyl Glycol, Phenoxyethanol, Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract, Chrysanthemum Parthenium (Feverfew) Extract, Glycyrrhiza Glabra (Licorice) Root Extract Show all ingredients by function Water solvent Glyceryl Stearate SE emulsifying 2, 3 Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Squalane skin-identical ingredient, emollient 0, 1 goodie Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride emollient Dimethicone Sclerotium Gum viscosity controlling Cetyl Alcohol emollient, viscosity controlling 2, 2 Cetearyl Alcohol emollient, viscosity controlling, emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing 1, 2 Ceramide 3 skin-identical ingredient Caprylyl Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, emollient Phenoxyethanol preservative Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract antioxidant, soothing Chrysanthemum Parthenium (Feverfew) Extract Glycyrrhiza Glabra (Licorice) Root Extract soothing, skin brightening 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. An oily kind of ingredient that can magically blend with water all by itself. This is called self-emulsifying and SE in its name stands for that. The difference between "normal" Glyceryl Stearate and this guy is that the SE grade contains a small amount of water-loving soap molecules, such as sodium stearate. This increases Glyceryl Stearate's affinity for water and gives it stronger emulsifying abilities. Other than that, it’s a nice emollient that gives a smooth and soft appearance to the skin. You can read some more at Glyceryl Stearate >> 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 It seems to us that squalane is in fashion and there is a reason for it. Chemically speaking, it is a saturated (no double bonds) hydrocarbon (a molecule consisting only of carbon and hydrogen), meaning that it's a nice and stable oily liquid with a long shelf life. It occurs naturally in certain fish and plant oils (e.g. olive), and in the sebum (the oily stuff our skin produces) of the human skin. As f.c. puts it in his awesome blog post, squalane's main things are "emolliency, surface occlusion, and TEWL prevention all with extreme cosmetic elegance". In other words, it's a superb moisturizer that makes your skin nice and smooth, without being heavy or greasy. Another advantage of squalane is that it is pretty much compatible with all skin types and skin conditions. It is excellent for acne-prone skin and safe to use even if you have fungi-related skin issues, like seborrhea or fungal acne. The unsaturated (with double bonds) and hence less stable version of Squalane is Squalene, you can read about it here >> 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 formu what‑it‑does irritancy, com. skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant skin-identical ingredient | emollient emollient | viscosity controlling emollient | viscosity controlling | emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing moisturizer/humectant | emollient antioxidant | soothing soothing | skin brightening

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