Paula's Choice Clinical Pro Retinaldehyde Dual-retinoid Treatment

Paula's Choice Clinical Pro Retinaldehyde Dual-retinoid Treatment Paula's Choice Clinical Pro Retinaldehyde Dual-retinoid Treatment ingredients explained: Water (Aqua/Eau), Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride (Emollient), Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Oil (Antioxidant Plant Oil/Emollient), Dimethicone (Emollient/Texture Enhancer), Polyglyceryl-2 Stearate (Emulsifier), Propanediol (Humectant), Polyglyceryl-3 Diisostearate (Emulsifier/Stabiliser), Sodium Stearoyl Glutamate (Emulsifier), Retinal (Vitamin A/Antioxidant), Tocopherol(Vitamin E/Antioxidant), Tocopheryl Acetate (Vitamin E/Antioxidant), Saccharomyces Ferment Filtrate (Hydration), Albatrellus Confluens (Mushroom) Extract (Plant Extract/Antioxidant), Punica Granatum Pericarp Extract (Plant Extract/Antioxidant), Oleyl Adapalenate (Antioxidant/Retinoid Derivative), Glyceryl Stearate (Texture Enhancer), Stearyl Alcohol (Texture Enhancer), Hydroxyapatite (Texture Enhancer), Butylene Glycol (Humectant), Cetyl Glyceryl Ether (Emollient), Ricinus Communis (Castor) Seed Oil (Emollient Plant Oil), Sodium Show all ingredients by function Water (Aqua/Eau) solvent Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride (Emollient) emollient Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Oil (Antioxidant Plant Oil/Emollient) 0, 0-2 goodie Dimethicone (Emollient/Texture Enhancer) 0, 1 Polyglyceryl-2 Stearate (Emulsifier) emulsifying Propanediol (Humectant) solvent, moisturizer/​humectant Polyglyceryl-3 Diisostearate (Emulsifier/Stabiliser) 0, 4 Sodium Stearoyl Glutamate (Emulsifier) emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing Retinal (Vitamin A/Antioxidant) cell-communicating ingredient superstar Tocopherol(Vitamin E/Antioxidant) antioxidant 0-3, 0-3 Tocopheryl Acetate (Vitamin E/Antioxidant) 0, 0 Saccharomyces Ferment Filtrate (Hydration) soothing, moisturizer/​humectant Albatrellus Confluens (Mushroom) Extract (Plant Extract/Antioxidant) soothing Punica Granatum Pericarp Extract (Plant Extract/Antioxidant) Oleyl Adapalenate (Antioxidant/Retinoid Derivative) Glyceryl Stearate (Texture Enhancer) emollient, emulsifying Stearyl Alcohol (Texture Enhancer) emollient, viscosity controlling, emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing 2, 2 Hydroxyapatite (Texture Enhancer) abrasive/​scrub Butylene Glycol (Humectant) moisturizer/​humectant, solvent Cetyl Glyceryl Ether (Emollient) Ricinus Communis (Castor) Seed Oil (Emollient Plant Oil) emollient, perfuming 0, 0-1 Sodium Polyacrylate (Film-Forming Agent) viscosity controlling Isopropyl Myristate (Emollient/Texture Enhancer) 3, 3-5 Hydroxyacetophenone (Humectant) antioxidant, preservative Caprylhydroxamic Acid (Chelating Agent) chelating Sodium Phytate (Chelating Agent/Stabilizer) Xanthan Gum (Stabilizer) Glycerine (Humectant) skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant Hydroxystearic Acid (Texture Enhancer) surfactant/​cleansing, emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing 1,2-Hexanediol (Preservative) Sorbitan Oleate (Emulsifier) 0, 3 Naringin (Antioxidant) Citric Acid (Ph Adjuster) buffering Titanium Dioxide (Ci 77891) (Occlusive/Opacifying Agent) 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. A super common emollient that makes your skin feel nice and smooth. It comes from coconut oil and glycerin, it’s light-textured, clear, odorless and non-greasy. It’s a nice ingredient that just feels good on the skin, is super well tolerated by every skin type and easy to formulate with. No wonder it’s popular. 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" th what‑it‑does irritancy, com. solvent | moisturizer/humectant emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing soothing | moisturizer/humectant emollient | emulsifying emollient | viscosity controlling | emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing abrasive/scrub moisturizer/humectant | solvent emollient | perfuming antioxidant | preservative skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant surfactant/cleansing | emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing sunscreen | colorant

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