Paula's Choice Calm Restoring Moisturiser

Paula's Choice Calm Restoring Moisturiser Paula's Choice Calm Restoring Moisturiser ingredients explained: Aqua, Ethylhexyl Stearate (Emollient/Texture-Enhancing), Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Oil (Non-Fragrant Emollient Plant Oil), Butylene Glycol (Hydration), Glycerin (Hydration/Skin Replenishing), Petrolatum (Hydration), Cetearyl Alcohol (Texture-Enhancing), Dipentaerythrityl Hexacaprylate/Hexacaprate (Texture-Enhancing), Tridecyl Trimellitate (Texture-Enhancing), Phenyl Trimethicone (Hydration), Etanorulayh Muidos (Hydration/Skin-Replenishing), Ceramide NP (Hydration/Skin-Replenishing), Cholesterol (Skin-Replenishing), Tocopherol (Vitamin E/Antioxidant), Squalane (Emollient), Magnesium Ascorbyl Phosphate (Vitamin C/Antioxidant), Dimethicone (Hydration), Polysorbate 60 (Texture-Enhancing), Hydrolyzed Jojoba Protein (Hydration), Avena Sativa (Oat) Kernel Extract (Skin-Soothing), Hydrogenated Lecithin (Skin-Replenishing), Whey Protein (Hydration), Tridecyl Stearate (Texture-Enhancing), Neopentyl Glycol Dicaprylate/Dicap Show all ingredients by function Aqua solvent Ethylhexyl Stearate (Emollient/Texture-Enhancing) emollient Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Oil (Non-Fragrant Emollient Plant Oil) 0, 0-2 goodie Butylene Glycol (Hydration) moisturizer/​humectant, solvent 0, 1 Glycerin (Hydration/Skin Replenishing) skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Petrolatum (Hydration) Cetearyl Alcohol (Texture-Enhancing) emollient, viscosity controlling, emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing 1, 2 Dipentaerythrityl Hexacaprylate/Hexacaprate (Texture-Enhancing) emollient, emulsifying, viscosity controlling Tridecyl Trimellitate (Texture-Enhancing) Phenyl Trimethicone (Hydration) Etanorulayh Muidos (Hydration/Skin-Replenishing) Ceramide NP (Hydration/Skin-Replenishing) skin-identical ingredient Cholesterol (Skin-Replenishing) skin-identical ingredient, emollient Tocopherol (Vitamin E/Antioxidant) antioxidant 0-3, 0-3 Squalane (Emollient) Magnesium Ascorbyl Phosphate (Vitamin C/Antioxidant) skin brightening, antioxidant Dimethicone (Hydration) Polysorbate 60 (Texture-Enhancing) emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing Hydrolyzed Jojoba Protein (Hydration) Avena Sativa (Oat) Kernel Extract (Skin-Soothing) antioxidant, soothing, emollient, abrasive/​scrub Hydrogenated Lecithin (Skin-Replenishing) emollient, emulsifying Whey Protein (Hydration) cell-communicating ingredient Tridecyl Stearate (Texture-Enhancing) Neopentyl Glycol Dicaprylate/Dicaprate (Texture-Enhancing) Myristyl Myristate (Texture-Enhancing) 2, 0-5 Linoleic Acid (Skin-Replenishing) skin-identical ingredient, emollient, surfactant/​cleansing Linolenic Acid (Skin-Replenishing) skin-identical ingredient, emollient, surfactant/​cleansing, perfuming Decarboxy Carnosine Hcl (Skin-Renewing) Hydroxyethyl Acrylate/Sodium Acryloyldimethyl Taurate Copolymer (Texture-Enhancing/Hydration) viscosity controlling Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer (Texture-Enhancing/Hydration) Cetearyl Glucoside (Texture-Enhancing) Cetyl Alcohol (Texture-Enhancing) emollient, viscosity controlling 2, 2 Polyglyceryl-3 Beeswax (Texture-Enhancing) emulsifying Aminomethyl Propanol (Ph-Adjustor) buffering Disodium EDTA (Stabilizer) chelating Phenoxyethanol (Preservative) preservative Benzoic Acid (Preservative) Chlorphenesin (Preservative) preservative, antimicrobial/​antibacterial Sorbic Acid (Preservative) 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, 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. Jojoba is a drought resistant evergreen shrub native to South-western North America. It's known and grown for jojoba oil, the golden yellow liquid coming from the seeds (about 50% of the weight of the seeds will be oil). At first glance, it seems like your average emollient plant oil: it looks like an oil and it's nourishing and moisturizing to the skin but if we dig a bit deeper, it turns out that jojoba oil is really special and unique: technically - or rather chemically - it's not an oil but a wax ester (and calling it an oil is kind of sloppy). So what the heck is a wax ester and why is that important anyway? Well, to understand what a wax ester is, you first have to know that oils are chemically triglycerides: one glycerin + three fatty acids attached to it. The fatty acids attached to the glycerin vary and thus we have many kinds of oils, but they are all triglycerides. Mother Nature created triglycerides to be easily hydrolyzed (be broken down to a glycerin + 3 fatty acid molecules) and oxidized (the fatty acid is broken down into small parts) - this happens basically when we eat fats or oils and our body generates energy from it. Mother Nature also created wax esters but for a totally different purpose. Chemically, a wax ester is a fatty acid + a fatty alcohol, one long molecule. Wax esters are on the outer surface of several plant leaves to give them environmental protection. 25-30% of human sebum is also wax esters to give us people environmental protection. So being a wax ester results in a couple of unique properties: First, jojoba oil is extremely stable. Like crazy stable. Even if you heat it to 370 C (698 F) for 96 hours, it does not budge. (Many plant oils tend to go off pretty quickly). If you have some pure jojoba oil at home, you should be fine using it for years. Second, jojoba oil is the most similar to human sebum (both being wax esters), and the two are completely miscible. Acne.org has this not fully proven theory that thanks to this, jojoba might be able to "trick" the skin into thinking it has already p what‑it‑does irritancy, com. moisturizer/humectant | solvent skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant emollient | viscosity controlling | emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing emollient | emulsifying | viscosity controlling skin-identical ingredient | emollient skin brightening | antioxidant emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing antioxidant | soothing | emollient | abrasive/scrub emollient | emulsifying skin-identical ingredient | emollient | surfactant/cleansing skin-identical ingredient | emollient | surfactant/cleansing | perfuming emollient | viscosity controlling preservative | antimicrobial/antibacterial

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