Image Skincare BIOME+ Cleansing Comfort Balm

Image Skincare BIOME+ Cleansing Comfort Balm Image Skincare BIOME+ Cleansing Comfort Balm ingredients explained: Aqua/Water/Eau, Dicaprylyl Carbonate, Ethylhexyl Stearate, Glycerin, Squalane, Propanediol, Pentylene Glycol, Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer, Chlorphenesin, Withania Somnifera Root Extract, Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Oil, Citrus Aurantium Dulcis (Orange) Peel Oil, Sodium Hydroxide, Limonene, Trisodium Ethylenediamine Disuccinate, Lactic Acid, 1,2-Hexanediol, Caprylyl Glycol, Tocopherol, Citrus Nobilis (Mandarin Orange) Peel Oil, Helianthus Annuus Leaf/Stem Extract, Barosma Betulina Leaf Oil, Vanilla Planifolia Fruit Extract Show all ingredients by function Aqua/Water/Eau solvent Dicaprylyl Carbonate emollient Ethylhexyl Stearate Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Squalane skin-identical ingredient, emollient 0, 1 goodie Propanediol solvent, moisturizer/​humectant Pentylene Glycol Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer viscosity controlling Chlorphenesin preservative, antimicrobial/​antibacterial Withania Somnifera Root Extract Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Oil Citrus Aurantium Dulcis (Orange) Peel Oil perfuming icky Sodium Hydroxide buffering Limonene perfuming, solvent Trisodium Ethylenediamine Disuccinate chelating Lactic Acid exfoliant, moisturizer/​humectant, buffering 1,2-Hexanediol Caprylyl Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, emollient Tocopherol antioxidant 0-3, 0-3 Citrus Nobilis (Mandarin Orange) Peel Oil Helianthus Annuus Leaf/Stem Extract Barosma Betulina Leaf Oil Vanilla Planifolia Fruit Extract 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 clear, colorless, almost odorless oil that spreads nicely and easily and gives a velvet dry skin feel. It is good friends with sunscreen agents and helps to solubilize them. Also, it makes sunscreens feel lighter and spread easier. A clear, almost colorless (or slightly yellowish) oily liquid (an ester to be precise) that's used as a medium spreading emollient. It gives skin a nice and smooth after-feel and it's very good at reducing oiliness or greasiness coming from other heavier oils in the formula. 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 >> Propanediol is a natural alternative for the often used and often bad-mouthed propylene glycol. It's produced sustainably from corn sugar and it's Ecocert approved. It's quite a multi-tasker: can be used to improve skin moisturization, as a solvent, to boost preservative efficacy or to influence the sensory properti what‑it‑does skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. skin-identical ingredient | emollient solvent | moisturizer/humectant preservative | antimicrobial/antibacterial perfuming | solvent exfoliant | moisturizer/humectant | buffering moisturizer/humectant | emollient

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