Paula's Choice Clear Regular Strength Anti-Redness Exfoliating Solution With 2% Salicylic Acid

Paula's Choice Clear Regular Strength Anti-Redness Exfoliating Solution With 2% Salicylic Acid Paula's Choice Clear Regular Strength Anti-Redness Exfoliating Solution With 2% Salicylic Acid ingredients explained: Water (Aqua), Dipropylene Glycol, Pentylene Glycol, Salicylic Acid, Polysorbate 20, Butylene Glycol, Glycerin, Sodium Hyaluronate, Dipotassium Glycyrrhizate, Allantoin, Panthenol, PEG/PPG-17/6 Copolymer, Methyl Gluceth-20, Glycereth-26, Bis-PEG-18 Methyl Ether Dimethyl Silane, Sodium Hydroxide, Tetrasodium EDTA, Sodium Metabisulfite Show all ingredients by function Water (Aqua) solvent Dipropylene Glycol Pentylene Glycol solvent, moisturizer/​humectant Salicylic Acid exfoliant, anti-acne, soothing, preservative superstar Polysorbate 20 emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing 0, 0 Butylene Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, solvent 0, 1 Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant Sodium Hyaluronate goodie Dipotassium Glycyrrhizate soothing, moisturizer/​humectant Allantoin soothing Panthenol PEG/PPG-17/6 Copolymer emollient, solvent Methyl Gluceth-20 moisturizer/​humectant Glycereth-26 moisturizer/​humectant, emollient, viscosity controlling Bis-PEG-18 Methyl Ether Dimethyl Silane emollient, moisturizer/​humectant, surfactant/​cleansing Sodium Hydroxide buffering Tetrasodium EDTA chelating Sodium Metabisulfite antioxidant, 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, colorless liquid that works as a solvent and viscosity decreasing ingredient. It also has great skin-moisturizing abilities. A multi-functional, silky feeling helper ingredient that can do quite many things. It's used as an emulsion stabilizer, solvent and a broad spectrum antimicrobial. According to manufacturer info, it's also a moisturizer and helps to make the product feel great on the skin. It works synergistically with preservatives and helps to improve water-resistance of sunscreens. It's one of the gold standard ingredients for treating problem skin It can exfoliate skin both on the surface and in the pores It's a potent anti-inflammatory agent It's more effective for treating blackheads than acne For acne combine it with antibacterial agents like benzoyl peroxide or azelaic acid 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. 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. 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 - sodium form - cousin of the famous NMF, hyaluronic acid (HA). If HA does not tell you anything we have a super detailed, geeky explanation about it here. The TL; DR version of HA is that it's a huge polymer (big molecule f what‑it‑does solvent | moisturizer/humectant exfoliant | anti-acne | soothing | preservative emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing irritancy, com. moisturizer/humectant | solvent skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant soothing | moisturizer/humectant emollient | solvent moisturizer/humectant moisturizer/humectant | emollient | viscosity controlling emollient | moisturizer/humectant | surfactant/cleansing antioxidant | preservative

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