Paula's Choice Calm Soothing Liquid Toner

Paula's Choice Calm Soothing Liquid Toner Paula's Choice Calm Soothing Liquid Toner ingredients explained: Aqua, Butylene Glycol (Hydration), Polysorbate 20 (Texture-Enhancing), Glycerin (Hydration/Skin Replenishing), Colloidal Oatmeal (Skin-Soothing), Beta-Glucan (Skin-Soothing/Antioxidant), Sea Whip Extract (Skin-Soothing), Boerhavia Diffusa Root Extract (Skin-Soothing), Panthenol (Skin Replenishing), Epigallocatechin Gallate (Antioxidant), Gellan Gum (Texture-Enhancing), Phytic Acid (Stabilizer), Disodium EDTA (Stabilizer), Ethylhexylglycerin (Preservative), Potassium Sorbate (Preservative) Show all ingredients by function Aqua solvent Butylene Glycol (Hydration) moisturizer/​humectant, solvent 0, 1 Polysorbate 20 (Texture-Enhancing) emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing 0, 0 Glycerin (Hydration/Skin Replenishing) skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant superstar Colloidal Oatmeal (Skin-Soothing) soothing, antioxidant, emollient, abrasive/​scrub goodie Beta-Glucan (Skin-Soothing/Antioxidant) soothing, moisturizer/​humectant Sea Whip Extract (Skin-Soothing) Boerhavia Diffusa Root Extract (Skin-Soothing) Panthenol (Skin Replenishing) Epigallocatechin Gallate (Antioxidant) antioxidant, soothing Gellan Gum (Texture-Enhancing) viscosity controlling Phytic Acid (Stabilizer) chelating Disodium EDTA (Stabilizer) Ethylhexylglycerin (Preservative) preservative Potassium Sorbate (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. 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 a common little helper ingredient that helps water and oil to mix together. Also, it can help to increase the solubility of some other ingredients in the formula. 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 The finely ground version of whole oat kernels that has well-established skin soothing, skin-protecting and antioxidant abilities. We have a shiny description of oat extract in skincare here. It is a real goodie ingredient for dry, irritated, inflamed or eczema-prone skin. Beta-Glucan is a nice big molecule composed of many smaller sugar molecules (called polysaccharide). It’s in the cell walls of yeast, some mushrooms, seaweeds, and cereals. It’s a real goodie no matter if you eat it or put it on your face. Eating it is anti-diabetic, anti-cancer, and even lowers blood cholesterol. Putting it on your face also does a bunch of good things: it‘s shown to have intensive skin repairing & wound healing properties, it’s a mild antioxidant, a great skin soother, and moisturizer, and it even shows promising anti-aging benefits. The manufacturer of the ingredient did a published study with 27 people and examined the effect of 0.1% beta-glucan. They found that despite the large molecular size the smaller factions of beta-glucan penetr what‑it‑does moisturizer/humectant | solvent irritancy, com. emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant soothing | antioxidant | emollient | abrasive/scrub soothing | moisturizer/humectant antioxidant | soothing

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