Paula's Choice Gentle Touch Makeup Remover

Paula's Choice Gentle Touch Makeup Remover Paula's Choice Gentle Touch Makeup Remover ingredients explained: Water (Aqua), Cyclotetrasiloxane, Cyclopentasiloxane, Isohexadecane, Butylene Glycol, Glycerin, Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice, Bisabolol, Camellia Oleifera Leaf Extract (Green Tea Extract), Poloxamer 184, Sodium Dehydroacetate, Allantoin, Glycyrrhetinic Acid, Sodium Chloride, Disodium Edta, Methylparaben, Benzalkonium Chloride, Benzyl Alcohol Show all ingredients by function Water (Aqua) solvent Cyclotetrasiloxane emollient, solvent Cyclopentasiloxane Isohexadecane Butylene Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, solvent 0, 1 Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice soothing, moisturizer/​humectant goodie Bisabolol soothing Camellia Oleifera Leaf Extract (Green Tea Extract) antioxidant, soothing Poloxamer 184 surfactant/​cleansing, emulsifying Sodium Dehydroacetate preservative Allantoin Glycyrrhetinic Acid Sodium Chloride viscosity controlling Disodium Edta chelating Methylparaben Benzalkonium Chloride antimicrobial/​antibacterial, preservative, surfactant/​cleansing Benzyl Alcohol preservative, perfuming, solvent, viscosity controlling 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 four-unit long, cyclic structured, super light silicone that is the small sister of the more commonly used 5-unit long cyclic structured Cyclopentasiloxane. It is a so-called volatile silicone that evaporates off the skin and hair rather than staying on it. Similar to other silicones, it has excellent spreading properties and amazing silkiness. It is often blended with other silicones to achieve unique sensorial properties in the formula. A super commonly used 5 unit long, cyclic structured silicone that is water-thin and does not stay on the skin but evaporates from it (called volatile silicone). Similar to other silicones, it gives skin and hair a silky, smooth feel. It's often combined with the non-volatile (i.e. stays on the skin) dimethicone as the two together form a water-resistant, breathable protective barrier on the skin without a negative tacky feel. A light, velvety, unique skin feel liquid that is a good solvent and also makes the skin feel nice and smooth (aka emollient). It's often used in makeup products mixed with silicones to give shine and slip to the product. It's also great for cleansing dirt and oil from the skin as well as for taking off make-up. 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 Aloe Vera is one of what‑it‑does emollient | solvent moisturizer/humectant | solvent irritancy, com. skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant soothing | moisturizer/humectant antioxidant | soothing surfactant/cleansing | emulsifying antimicrobial/antibacterial | preservative | surfactant/cleansing preservative | perfuming | solvent | viscosity controlling

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