Pai Skincare Echium & Argan Gentle Eye Cream

Pai Skincare Echium & Argan Gentle Eye Cream Pai Skincare Echium & Argan Gentle Eye Cream ingredients explained: Aqua, Argania Spinosa Kernel Oil, Prunus Armeniaca Kernel Oil, Citrus Aurantium Dulcis Fruit Water, Carthamus Tinctorius Seed Oil, Lactobacillus Ferment, Cetearyl Alcohol, Glycerin, Butyrospermum Parkii Butter, Cetearyl Glucoside, Echium Plantagineum Seed Oil, Rosa Canina Seed Extract, Pelargonium Graveolens Oil, Citrus Aurantium Dulcis Peel Oil, Jasminum Grandiflorum Flower Extract, Helianthus Annuus Seed Oil, Rosmarinus Officinalis Leaf Extract, Tocopherol, Sodium Levulinate, Sodium Anisate, Sodium Stearoyl Glutamate, Lactic Acid, Citronellol, Geraniol, Limonene, Linalool Show all ingredients by function Aqua solvent Argania Spinosa Kernel Oil antioxidant, emollient goodie Prunus Armeniaca Kernel Oil emollient 0, 1-2 Citrus Aurantium Dulcis Fruit Water Carthamus Tinctorius Seed Oil 0, 0-2 Lactobacillus Ferment soothing, preservative Cetearyl Alcohol emollient, viscosity controlling, emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing 1, 2 Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Butyrospermum Parkii Butter Cetearyl Glucoside emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing Echium Plantagineum Seed Oil Rosa Canina Seed Extract emollient, moisturizer/​humectant Pelargonium Graveolens Oil perfuming icky Citrus Aurantium Dulcis Peel Oil Jasminum Grandiflorum Flower Extract Helianthus Annuus Seed Oil Rosmarinus Officinalis Leaf Extract antioxidant, soothing, antimicrobial/​antibacterial Tocopherol antioxidant 0-3, 0-3 Sodium Levulinate Sodium Anisate antimicrobial/​antibacterial Sodium Stearoyl Glutamate Lactic Acid exfoliant, moisturizer/​humectant, buffering Naturally Occurring In Essential Oils Citronellol Geraniol Limonene perfuming, solvent Linalool 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. When it comes to cosmetic oils and hype, argan oil is for sure leading the way. Dubbed as the "liquid gold of Morocco", we have to admit we have some trouble determining why this oil enjoys such a special miracle status. Not that it's not good, it is good, even great but reading the research about argan and a bunch of other plant oils we just do not see the big, unique differentiating factor (though that might be our fault not reading enough, obvs.) So, argan oil comes from the kernel of the argan fruit that comes from the argan tree that grows only in Morocco. The tree is slow growing and getting the oil is a hard job. The traditional process is that the ripe argan fruits fall from the tree, then goats eat them up and poop out the seeds. The seeds are collected and smashed with a stone to get the kernels inside. This part is the hard one as the seeds have extremely hard shells. Once the kernels are obtained, the oil is pressed out from them (the kernels contain about 50% oil). As for skincare, argan oil is loaded with lots of skin goodies (but so are many other plant oils): it contains 80% nourishing and moisturizing unsaturated fatty acids, mainly oleic (38-50%), linoleic (28-38%) and palmitic (10-18%). It also contains a relatively large amount of antioxidant vitamin E (600-900 mg/kg, about twice as much as olive), small amounts of antioxidant phenols (including caffeic acid, ferulic acid, and epicatechin), as well as some rare sterols with soothing and anti-inflammatory properties. Thanks to all the above goodness in argan oil, it can greatly nourish and moisturize the skin and hair. It's also claimed to be able to neutralize collagen-damaging free radicals, help reduce scars, and revitalize and improve skin elasticity. You can even read that argan might help acne-prone skin, but being a high oleic oil, we would be careful with that. All in all, argan oil is a real goodie but we do not fully understand the special miracle status it enjoys. The emollient plant oil coming from the kernel (the seed of the seed) of the delicious apricot fruit. Like other plant oils, it contains antioxidant vitamin E and nourishing fatty acids (mostly oleic acid 54-74%, linoleic acid 12-35%). It's a nice general purpose emollient, has nourishing and moisturizing properties (as a high oleic oil it's ideal for dry skin what‑it‑does antioxidant | emollient irritancy, com. soothing | preservative emollient | viscosity controlling | emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing emollient | moisturizer/humectant antioxidant | soothing | antimicrobial/antibacterial antimicrobial/antibacterial exfoliant | moisturizer/humectant | buffering perfuming | solvent

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