Paula's Choice Hydralight One Step Cleanser

Paula's Choice Hydralight One Step Cleanser Paula's Choice Hydralight One Step Cleanser ingredients explained: Water, Glycerin, Sodium Laureth Sulfate, Sodium Pca, Sodium Lactate, Glycine, Fructose, Urea, Niacinamide, Inositol, Sodium Benzoate, Lactic Acid, Allantoin, Sodium Hyaluronate, Peg-7 Glyceryl Cocoate, Sodium Hydroxymethylglycinate, Sodium Methyl Cocoyl Taurate, Xanthan Gum, Triethanolamine, Carbomer, Benzophenone-3, Methylparaben, Propylparaben Show all ingredients by function Water solvent Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Sodium Laureth Sulfate surfactant/​cleansing, emulsifying Sodium Pca goodie Sodium Lactate buffering, moisturizer/​humectant Glycine skin-identical ingredient Fructose moisturizer/​humectant Urea Niacinamide cell-communicating ingredient, skin brightening, anti-acne, moisturizer/​humectant Inositol Sodium Benzoate preservative Lactic Acid exfoliant, moisturizer/​humectant, buffering Allantoin soothing Sodium Hyaluronate Peg-7 Glyceryl Cocoate emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing Sodium Hydroxymethylglycinate Sodium Methyl Cocoyl Taurate surfactant/​cleansing Xanthan Gum viscosity controlling Triethanolamine buffering 0, 2 Carbomer 0, 1 Benzophenone-3 sunscreen icky Methylparaben Propylparaben preservative, perfuming 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 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 probably the most common cleansing ingredient of all. It’s usually the Chief Bubble Officer responsible for big bubbles in cleansing products through the foam it creates is a bit airy and loose and not as dense and luxurious as the foam created by infamous SLS. As for mildness, it goes somewhere in the middle. It’s often confused with sodium lauryl sulfate (SLS), but they are absolutely not the same. The SLES molecule has a bigger water-soluble head part that makes it milder and much less irritating. It is considered absolutely ok in the amount used in cosmetic products, though if you are looking for a mild facial cleanser, you have better chances with a formula without SLES. For an average shower gel? SLES works just fine. PCA stands for Pyrrolidone Carboxylic Acid and though it might not sound like it, it is a thing that can be found naturally in our skin. The sodium salt form of PCA is an important skin-identical ingredient and great natural moisturizer that helps the skin to hold onto water and stay nicely hydrated. The sodium salt of lactic acid. It's a great skin moisturizer and also used to regulate the pH value of the cosmetic formula. It's a natural ingredient approved by both ECOCERT and COSMOS. A non-essential amino acid (the building blocks of skin proteins, like collagen or elastin), that the body can produce itself, but its production decreases with age. When you put it all over your face, it works as a moisturizer and maybe more. According to great skincare blog Futurederm, glycine might help with wound healing and tissue repair and when used together with other amino acids, leucine and proline it might improve wrinkles. BTW, it's also a building block of a bunch of important and famous peptides, including copper-tripeptide-1, palmitoyl tripeptide-1 or palmitoyl hexapeptide-12. Fancy name for fruit sugar what‑it‑does skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. surfactant/cleansing | emulsifying buffering | moisturizer/humectant moisturizer/humectant cell-communicating ingredient | skin brightening | anti-acne | moisturizer/humectant exfoliant | moisturizer/humectant | buffering emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing surfactant/cleansing preservative | perfuming

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