Paula's Choice Advanced Smooting Treatment 10% AHA

Paula's Choice Advanced Smooting Treatment 10% AHA Paula's Choice Advanced Smooting Treatment 10% AHA ingredients explained: Aqua, Butylene Glycol (Hydration), Glycolic Acid (Exfoliant), Glycerin (Skinreplenishing), Lactic Acid (Exfoliant), Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride (Skinreplenishing), Malic Acid (Exfoliant), Tartaric Acid (Exfoliant), Palmitoyl Tripeptide-1 (Skin-Restoring), Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-7 (Skin-Restoring), Ceramide NG (Skin-Replenishing), Salicylic Acid (Exfoliant), Glycyrrhiza Glabra (Licorice) Root Extract (Soothing Plant Extract), Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract (Soothing Antioxidant Plant Extract), Avena Sativa (Oat) Bran Extract (Soothing Plant Extract), Punica Granatum Fruit Extract (Antioxidant) Show all ingredients by function Aqua solvent Butylene Glycol (Hydration) moisturizer/​humectant, solvent 0, 1 Glycolic Acid (Exfoliant) exfoliant, buffering superstar Glycerin (Skinreplenishing) skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 Lactic Acid (Exfoliant) exfoliant, moisturizer/​humectant, buffering Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride (Skinreplenishing) emollient Malic Acid (Exfoliant) goodie Tartaric Acid (Exfoliant) buffering, exfoliant Palmitoyl Tripeptide-1 (Skin-Restoring) cell-communicating ingredient Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-7 (Skin-Restoring) Ceramide NG (Skin-Replenishing) skin-identical ingredient Salicylic Acid (Exfoliant) exfoliant, anti-acne, soothing, preservative Glycyrrhiza Glabra (Licorice) Root Extract (Soothing Plant Extract) soothing, skin brightening Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract (Soothing Antioxidant Plant Extract) antioxidant, soothing Avena Sativa (Oat) Bran Extract (Soothing Plant Extract) soothing, abrasive/​scrub Punica Granatum Fruit Extract (Antioxidant) 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. Butylene glycol, or let’s just call it BG, is a multi-tasking colorless, syrupy liquid. It’s a great pick for creating a nice feeling product. BG’s main job is usually to be a solvent for the other ingredients. Other tasks include helping the product to absorb faster and deeper into the skin (penetration enhancer), making the product spread nicely over the skin (slip agent), and attracting water (humectant) into the skin. It’s an ingredient whose safety hasn’t been questioned so far by anyone (at least not that we know about). BG is approved by Ecocert and is also used enthusiastically in natural products. BTW, it’s also a food additive. It’s the most researched AHA with the most proven skin benefits It gently lifts off dead skin cells to reveal newer, fresher, smoother skin It can help skin’s own collagen production that results in firmer, younger skin It can fade brown spots caused by sun damage or PIH Choose a product where you know the concentration and pH value because these two greatly influence effectiveness Don’t forget to use your sunscreen (in any case but especially so next to an AHA product) Slight stinging or burning with a stronger AHA product is normal If your skin is very sensitive, rosacea prone choose rather a BHA or PHA product 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’s the second most researched AHA after glycolic acid It also has amazing skin hydrating properties In higher concentration (10% and up) it improves skin firmness, thickness and wrinkles 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. Malic acid comes from apple and is an AHA. If these magic three letters don’t tell you what‑it‑does moisturizer/humectant | solvent irritancy, com. exfoliant | buffering skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant exfoliant | moisturizer/humectant | buffering buffering | exfoliant exfoliant | anti-acne | soothing | preservative soothing | skin brightening antioxidant | soothing soothing | abrasive/scrub

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