First Aid Beauty Ultra Repair Face Moisturiser (Discontinued)

First Aid Beauty Ultra Repair Face Moisturiser (Discontinued) First Aid Beauty Ultra Repair Face Moisturiser ingredients explained: Water, Glyceryl Stearate SE, Glycerin, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Colloidal Oatmeal, Urea, Squalane, Dimethicone, Cetyl Alcohol, Cetearyl Alcohol, Caprylyl Glycol, Phenoxyethanol, Allantoin, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter, Limnanthes Alba (Meadowfoam) Seed Oil, Persea Gratissima (Avocado) Oil, Carbomer, Sodium Hydroxide, Camellia Sinensis (White Tea) Leaf Extract, Chrysanthemum Parthenium (Feverfew) Extract, Glycyrrhiza Glabra (Licorice) Root Extract, Ceramide 3 Show all ingredients by function Water solvent Glyceryl Stearate SE emulsifying 2, 3 Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride emollient Colloidal Oatmeal soothing, antioxidant, emollient, abrasive/​scrub goodie Urea Squalane skin-identical ingredient, emollient 0, 1 Dimethicone Cetyl Alcohol emollient, viscosity controlling 2, 2 Cetearyl Alcohol emollient, viscosity controlling, emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing 1, 2 Caprylyl Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, emollient Phenoxyethanol preservative Allantoin soothing Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter Limnanthes Alba (Meadowfoam) Seed Oil Persea Gratissima (Avocado) Oil antioxidant, emollient 0, 0-3 Carbomer viscosity controlling Sodium Hydroxide buffering Camellia Sinensis (White Tea) Leaf Extract antioxidant, soothing Chrysanthemum Parthenium (Feverfew) Extract Glycyrrhiza Glabra (Licorice) Root Extract soothing, skin brightening Ceramide 3 skin-identical ingredient 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 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. The finely ground version of whole oat kernels that has well-established skin soothing, skin-protecting and antioxidant abilities. We have a shiny description of oat extract in skincare here. It is a real goodie ingredient for dry, irritated, inflamed or eczema-prone skin. Yes, it's the thing that can be found naturally in pee. And in the skin. It is an awesome natural moisturizing factor, aka NMF. NMFs are important components that help the skin to hold onto water and keep it plump, elastic and hydrated. Urea makes up about 7% of NMFs next to other things such as amino acids (40%), PCA (12%) or Lactate (12%). What makes urea special, is that it is not only a simple moisturizer, but it is thought to be a "small-molecule regulator of epidermal structure and function" meaning that it has a bunch of extra biological activities. It acts as a mild keratolytic agent (some of its moisturizing action is thought to come from urea's ability to break down bonds in the protein called filagg what‑it‑does irritancy, com. skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant soothing | antioxidant | emollient | abrasive/scrub skin-identical ingredient | emollient emollient | viscosity controlling emollient | viscosity controlling | emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing moisturizer/humectant | emollient antioxidant | emollient antioxidant | soothing soothing | skin brightening

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