Paula's Choice Clinical Ceramide Enriched Firming Eye Cream

Paula's Choice Clinical Ceramide Enriched Firming Eye Cream Paula's Choice Clinical Ceramide Enriched Firming Eye Cream ingredients explained: Water (Aqua), Neopentyl Glycol Diheptanoate, Cetyl Alcohol, Butylene Glycol, Glycerin, Glyceryl Stearate, PEG-100 Stearate, Ammonium Acryloyldimethyltaurate/Vp Copolymer, Ascorbyl Glucoside, Potassium Cetyl Phosphate, Sodium Ascorbyl Phosphate, Bis-Diglyceryl Polyacyladipate-2, Polyglyceryl-10 Dioleate, Tetrahexyldecyl Ascorbate, Ceramide Ns, Ceramide Eop, Ceramide AP, Ceramide Eos, Ceramide NP, Palmitoyl Tripeptide-5, Acetyl Tetrapeptide-5, Sodium Hyaluronate, Caprooyl Phytosphingosine, Caprooyl Sphingosine, Cholesterol, Squalane, Retinol, Vitis Vinifera (Grape) Seed Extract, Glycyrrhiza Glabra (Licorice) Root Extract, Punica Granatum (Pomegranate) Fruit Extract, Dunaliella Salina (Algae) Extract, Pongamia Glabra Seed Oil, Tocopheryl Acetate, Allantoin, Bisabolol, Carnosine, Panthenol, Sodium Pca, Pullulan, Glyceryl Ascorbate, Behenic Acid, Dimethicone, Sodium Citrate, Sodium Polyacrylate, Caprylyl Glyc Show all ingredients by function Water (Aqua) solvent Neopentyl Glycol Diheptanoate emollient Cetyl Alcohol emollient, viscosity controlling 2, 2 Butylene Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, solvent 0, 1 Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Glyceryl Stearate emollient, emulsifying PEG-100 Stearate surfactant/​cleansing, emulsifying Ammonium Acryloyldimethyltaurate/Vp Copolymer viscosity controlling Ascorbyl Glucoside antioxidant, skin brightening goodie Potassium Cetyl Phosphate emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing Sodium Ascorbyl Phosphate antioxidant, anti-acne Bis-Diglyceryl Polyacyladipate-2 Polyglyceryl-10 Dioleate emulsifying Tetrahexyldecyl Ascorbate Ceramide Ns skin-identical ingredient Ceramide Eop Ceramide AP Ceramide Eos Ceramide NP Palmitoyl Tripeptide-5 cell-communicating ingredient Acetyl Tetrapeptide-5 cell-communicating ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant Sodium Hyaluronate Caprooyl Phytosphingosine Caprooyl Sphingosine Cholesterol skin-identical ingredient, emollient Squalane Retinol Vitis Vinifera (Grape) Seed Extract antioxidant, antimicrobial/​antibacterial Glycyrrhiza Glabra (Licorice) Root Extract soothing, skin brightening Punica Granatum (Pomegranate) Fruit Extract Dunaliella Salina (Algae) Extract Pongamia Glabra Seed Oil preservative Tocopheryl Acetate antioxidant Allantoin soothing Bisabolol Carnosine antioxidant, cell-communicating ingredient Panthenol soothing, moisturizer/​humectant Sodium Pca Pullulan Glyceryl Ascorbate antioxidant, moisturizer/​humectant Behenic Acid Dimethicone Sodium Citrate chelating, buffering Sodium Polyacrylate Caprylyl Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, emollient Ethylhexyl Stearate Ceteareth-25 Sodium Hydroxide buffering Trideceth-6 Propyl Gallate antioxidant, perfuming Polysorbate 20 Disodium EDTA chelating Mica colorant Phenoxyethanol Chlorphenesin preservative, antimicrobial/​antibacterial Sodium Benzoate 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, odorless, very light emollient ester that helps to achieve light textures. It has great spreadability, a good slip, and a silky skin feel. It's ideal to solubilize sunscreen agents and fragrances. It's also touted as a volatile (evaporates from the skin rather than absorbs into it) silicone alternative, especially to replace Cyclomethicone mixes. A so-called fatty (the good, non-drying kind of) alcohol that does all kinds of things in a skincare product: it makes your skin feel smooth and nice (emollient), helps to thicken up products and also helps water and oil to blend (emulsifier). Can be derived from coconut or palm kernel oil. 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 A super common, waxy, white, solid stuff that helps water and oil to mix together, gives body to creams and leaves the skin feeling soft and smooth. Chemically speaking, it is the attachment of a glycerin molecule to the fatty acid called stearic acid. It can be produced from most vegetable oils (in oils three fatty acid molecules are attached to glycerin instead of just one like here) in a pretty simple, "green" process that is similar to soap making. It's readily biodegradable. It also occurs naturally in our body and is used as a food additive. As co what‑it‑does emollient | viscosity controlling irritancy, com. moisturizer/humectant | solvent skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant emollient | emulsifying surfactant/cleansing | emulsifying antioxidant | skin brightening emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing antioxidant | anti-acne cell-communicating ingredient | moisturizer/humectant skin-identical ingredient | emollient antioxidant | antimicrobial/antibacterial soothing | skin brightening antioxidant | cell-communicating ingredient soothing | moisturizer/humectant antioxidant | moisturizer/humectant chelating | buffering moisturizer/humectant | emollient antioxidant | perfuming preservative | antimicrobial/antibacterial

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