Paula's Choice 7% Ectoin Booster

Paula's Choice 7% Ectoin Booster Paula's Choice 7% Ectoin Booster ingredients explained: Water (Aqua/Eau), Ectoin, Isopentyldiol, Triethylhexanoin, Diisopropyl Adipate, Isoamyl Laurate, Dicaprylyl Carbonate, Undecane, Polyglyceryl-4 Oleate, Squalane, Tridecane, Polyglyceryl-6 Oleate, Polyhydroxystearic Acid, 1,2-Hexanediol, Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Oil, Sodium Hyaluronate, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Tocopherol, Hydroxyacetophenone, Glycogen, Coco-Caprylate/Caprate, Hydrogenated Olive Oil Unsaponifiables, Sodium Phytate, Citric Acid, Stearalkonium Hectorite, Polyglyceryl-3 Diisostearate, Polyglyceryl-3 Polyricinoleate Show all ingredients by function Water (Aqua/Eau) solvent Ectoin antioxidant, soothing, moisturizer/​humectant goodie Isopentyldiol solvent, moisturizer/​humectant, emollient Triethylhexanoin emollient, perfuming Diisopropyl Adipate emollient, solvent 0, 0 Isoamyl Laurate emollient Dicaprylyl Carbonate Undecane Polyglyceryl-4 Oleate emulsifying Squalane skin-identical ingredient, emollient 0, 1 Tridecane perfuming Polyglyceryl-6 Oleate Polyhydroxystearic Acid 1,2-Hexanediol Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Oil 0, 0-2 Sodium Hyaluronate skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride Tocopherol antioxidant 0-3, 0-3 Hydroxyacetophenone antioxidant, preservative Glycogen moisturizer/​humectant Coco-Caprylate/Caprate Hydrogenated Olive Oil Unsaponifiables Sodium Phytate chelating Citric Acid buffering Stearalkonium Hectorite viscosity controlling Polyglyceryl-3 Diisostearate 0, 4 Polyglyceryl-3 Polyricinoleate emulsifying, viscosity controlling 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. Ectoin is a surprisingly well-researched, multi-functional active that can do from pollution & light protection to skin hydration, soothing, and barrier repair, several things to your skin. It is an extremolyte, a small stress-protection molecule that protects microorganisms living under extreme conditions such as salt lakes, hot springs, arctic ice, the deep sea, or deserts. It was discovered in 1985 in a microorganism living in a salt lake in the Egyptian desert. The key skill of Ectoin is protection that applies also to the skin. Its main mode of action is binding water molecules (aka kosmotropic) and creating hydro complexes. These complexes then surround important biomolecules (e.g. cells, proteins, enzymes) and form a stabilizing hydration shell around them. This protection mechanism means good things when it comes to our skin: Ectoin has antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, pollution& light protecting, skin hydrating, barrier repairing as well as anti-aging properties. A placebo-controlled 10-person study examined a four-week treatment with 0.5% Ectoin in the crow's feet area and found a significant anti-wrinkle effect (-19% mean wrinkle depth) in 100% of the participants. Another double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical study with 24 participants used a 2% Ectoin cream twice a day for 4 weeks and found an improvement in all of the measured parameters, such as wrinkle volume, skin scaling, roughness, and elasticity. Another remarkable property of Ectoin is protecting the epidermal immune cells called Langerhans cells from UV damage. 0.3% and 0.5% Ectoin cream was used twice a day for 14 days on the forearm and then irradiated with 1.5 MED UV (one and a half times the UV dose that causes detectable redness). While the untreated, UV-stressed area showed a 40% decrease in viable Langerhans cells, 0.5% Ectoin showed 100% protection (and 0.3% showed ~95% protection). The soothing efficacy is also backed up by multiple in-vivo studies. A 20-person study compared 1% Ectoin cream to 0.25% hydrocortisone treatment on surfactant irritated skin and found similar effectiveness in reducing skin redness. Another study with 23 females with sensitive skin found that a 1% Ectoin cream helped to tolerate a 0.5% or 1% retinol treatment much better. A tiny, 5-person study examined the long-term (7 days) skin hydrati what‑it‑does antioxidant | soothing | moisturizer/humectant solvent | moisturizer/humectant | emollient emollient | perfuming emollient | solvent irritancy, com. skin-identical ingredient | emollient skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant antioxidant | preservative moisturizer/humectant emulsifying | viscosity controlling

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