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Paula's Choice CellularYouth Age Disrupting Longevity Serum

Paula's Choice CellularYouth Age Disrupting Longevity Serum Paula's Choice CellularYouth Age Disrupting Longevity Serum ingredients explained: Aqua/Water/Eau, Propanediol, Glycerin, Triheptanoin, Methyl Gluceth-20, Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Oil, Tride

Paula's Choice CellularYouth Age Disrupting Longevity Serum Paula's Choice CellularYouth Age Disrupting Longevity Serum ingredients explained: Aqua/Water/Eau, Propanediol, Glycerin, Triheptanoin, Methyl Gluceth-20, Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Oil, Tridecyl Trimellitate, Maltodextrin, 1, 2-Hexanediol, Dimethicone, Taurine, Bacillus Ferment, Ganoderma Lucidum (Mushroom) Stem Extract, Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Sprout Extract, Goji Fruit Extract, Acetyl Tetrapeptide-2, Isomalt, Coco-Caprylate/Caprate, Hydroxyacetophenone, Hydroxyethyl Acrylate/Sodium Acryloyldimethyl Taurate Copolymer, C9-12 Alkane, Dilinoleic Acid/Butanediol Copolymer, Glyceryl Behenate, Polyglyceryl-6 Octastearate, Sodium Phytate, Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer, Potassium Chloride, Acacia Senegal Gum, Xanthan Gum, Polysorbate 60, Sorbitan Isostearate, Synthetic Fluorphlogopite, Caprylyl Glycol, Citric Acid, Castor Oil/IPDI Copolymer, Lecithin, Cyanocobalamin, Tin Oxide, Iron Oxides, Titanium Dioxide Show all ingredients by function Aqua/Water/Eau solvent Propanediol solvent, moisturizer/​humectant Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Triheptanoin emollient Methyl Gluceth-20 moisturizer/​humectant goodie Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Oil 0, 0-2 Tridecyl Trimellitate Maltodextrin 1, 2-Hexanediol Dimethicone 0, 1 Taurine buffering Bacillus Ferment Ganoderma Lucidum (Mushroom) Stem Extract Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Sprout Extract Goji Fruit Extract Acetyl Tetrapeptide-2 cell-communicating ingredient Isomalt Coco-Caprylate/Caprate Hydroxyacetophenone antioxidant, preservative Hydroxyethyl Acrylate/Sodium Acryloyldimethyl Taurate Copolymer viscosity controlling C9-12 Alkane Dilinoleic Acid/Butanediol Copolymer Glyceryl Behenate emollient, emulsifying Polyglyceryl-6 Octastearate emulsifying Sodium Phytate chelating Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer Potassium Chloride Acacia Senegal Gum Xanthan Gum Polysorbate 60 emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing Sorbitan Isostearate 0, 1-2 Synthetic Fluorphlogopite Caprylyl Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, emollient Citric Acid Castor Oil/IPDI Copolymer Lecithin Cyanocobalamin Tin Oxide colorant, abrasive/​scrub, viscosity controlling Iron Oxides colorant Titanium Dioxide sunscreen, colorant 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. 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 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 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. A corn sugar derived, water-soluble, pale yellow syrup, that nicely moisturizes the skin. It has a light and smooth skin feel, it is non-tacky, and it can improve the after-feel of the formula. It is also mild and gentle, popular in sensitive skin formulas. 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) - t what‑it‑does solvent | moisturizer/humectant skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. moisturizer/humectant antioxidant | preservative emollient | emulsifying emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing moisturizer/humectant | emollient colorant | abrasive/scrub | viscosity controlling sunscreen | colorant

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