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Paula's Choice Calm Rescue & Repair Weightless Moisturizer
Paula's Choice Calm Rescue & Repair Weightless Moisturizer Paula's Choice Calm Rescue & Repair Weightless Moisturizer ingredients explained: Water, Glycerin, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Stearic Acid, Triheptanoin, C13-16 Isoalkane, Butylene Glycol, Pr
Paula's Choice Calm Rescue & Repair Weightless Moisturizer Paula's Choice Calm Rescue & Repair Weightless Moisturizer ingredients explained: Water, Glycerin, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Stearic Acid, Triheptanoin, C13-16 Isoalkane, Butylene Glycol, Propanediol, Inulin, Glyceryl Stearate, Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer, Squalane, Ethylhexyl Stearate, Sodium Hydroxide, Caprylyl Glycol, Allantoin, Sodium Phytate, Ethylhexylglycerin, Hexylene Glycol, Alpha Glucan Oligosaccharide, Glycogen, Laminaria Digitata Extract, Albatrellus Confluens Mushroom Extract, Opuntia Ficus-Indica Stem Extract, Galactoarabinan, Citric Acid, Maltodextrin, Schizophyllan, Acetyl Hexapeptide-8, Phenoxyethanol, Potassium Sorbate Show all ingredients by function Water solvent Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/humectant 0, 0 superstar Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride emollient Stearic Acid emollient, viscosity controlling 0, 2-3 Triheptanoin C13-16 Isoalkane Butylene Glycol moisturizer/humectant, solvent 0, 1 Propanediol solvent, moisturizer/humectant Inulin goodie Glyceryl Stearate emollient, emulsifying Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer viscosity controlling Squalane skin-identical ingredient, emollient Ethylhexyl Stearate Sodium Hydroxide buffering Caprylyl Glycol moisturizer/humectant, emollient Allantoin soothing Sodium Phytate chelating Ethylhexylglycerin preservative Hexylene Glycol solvent, emulsifying, perfuming, surfactant/cleansing 0-1, 0-2 Alpha Glucan Oligosaccharide Glycogen moisturizer/humectant Laminaria Digitata Extract Albatrellus Confluens Mushroom Extract Opuntia Ficus-Indica Stem Extract Galactoarabinan antioxidant Citric Acid Maltodextrin Schizophyllan Acetyl Hexapeptide-8 cell-communicating ingredient, moisturizer/humectant Phenoxyethanol Potassium Sorbate 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 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. A common multi-tasker fatty acid. It makes your skin feel nice and smooth (emollient), gives body to cream type products and helps to stabilize water and oil mixes (aka emulsions). A light, oily liquid (triglyceride of seven carbon length fatty acid, heptanoic acid) that works as a very high spreadability and low viscosity emollient making the skin nice and smooth. We don't have description for this ingredient yet. 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. 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 properties of the end formula. A naturally occurring fructose polysaccharide found in the roots and rhizomes of several plants, for example, chicory. It is used in skin what‑it‑does skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. emollient | viscosity controlling moisturizer/humectant | solvent solvent | moisturizer/humectant emollient | emulsifying skin-identical ingredient | emollient moisturizer/humectant | emollient solvent | emulsifying | perfuming | surfactant/cleansing moisturizer/humectant cell-communicating ingredient | moisturizer/humectant