Paula's Choice Hydralight Toner

Paula's Choice Hydralight Toner Paula's Choice Hydralight Toner ingredients explained: Water, Camellia Oleifera (Green Tea) Leaf Extract (Antioxidant), Epilobium Angustifolium (Willow Herb) Extract (Soothing), Vitis Vinifera (Grape) Seed Extract (Antioxidant), Sodium Hyaluronate, Glycerin (Skin-Restoring), Methyl Gluceth-20 (Humectant), Sodium PCA (Skin-Restoring), Allantoin (Soothing), Butylene Glycol (Water-Binding Agent), Caprylyl Glycol, Hexylene Glycol (Preservatives), Bisabolol, Panthenol (Soothing), Polysorbate 20 (Emulsifier), PEG-90M (Stabilizer), Sodium Chloride, Sodium Citrate, Citric Acid, Potassium Phosphate (Ph Adjusters), Phenoxyethanol (Preservative) Show all ingredients by function Water solvent Camellia Oleifera (Green Tea) Leaf Extract (Antioxidant) antioxidant, soothing goodie Epilobium Angustifolium (Willow Herb) Extract (Soothing) Vitis Vinifera (Grape) Seed Extract (Antioxidant) antioxidant, antimicrobial/​antibacterial Sodium Hyaluronate skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 Glycerin (Skin-Restoring) superstar Methyl Gluceth-20 (Humectant) moisturizer/​humectant Sodium PCA (Skin-Restoring) Allantoin (Soothing) soothing Butylene Glycol (Water-Binding Agent) moisturizer/​humectant, solvent 0, 1 Caprylyl Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, emollient Hexylene Glycol (Preservatives) solvent, emulsifying, perfuming, surfactant/​cleansing 0-1, 0-2 Bisabolol Panthenol (Soothing) soothing, moisturizer/​humectant Polysorbate 20 (Emulsifier) emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing PEG-90M (Stabilizer) viscosity controlling Sodium Chloride Sodium Citrate chelating, buffering Citric Acid buffering Potassium Phosphate (Ph Adjusters) Phenoxyethanol (Preservative) 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. Camellia Oleifera is a type of green tea plant that's mostly known for the oil that comes from its seeds. As for the leaves, it has similar properties as the better known and more often used Camellia Sinensis leaves. You can read all the geeky details about green tea and why it's awesome by clicking here, but in short, it has antioxidants and anti-inflammatory magic properties. We don't have description for this ingredient yet. We wholeheartedly support the rise of seedless grapes as fruit snacks, but when it comes to skincare, we are big fans of the seeds. They contain the majority of the skin goodies that - similar to green tea - are mostly polyphenols (but not the same ones as in tea). The most abundant ones in grape are called proanthocyanidins, and 60-70% of them are found in the seeds (it's also often abbreviated as GSP - grape seed proanthocyanidins). In general, the darker the fruit, the more GSPs and other flavonoids it contains. So what's so special about GSPs? Well, they are super-potent antioxidants, much stronger than Vitamin C or Vitamin E. And if that's not enough, GSPs and other flavonoids in grape also show UV protecting and anti-cancer properties. It's definitely a goodie to spot on the INCI list. 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 from repeated subunits) found in the skin that acts as a sponge helping the skin to hold onto water, being plump and elastic. HA is famous for its crazy water holding capacity as it can bind up to 1000 times its own weight in water. As far as skincare goes, sodium hyaluronate and hyaluronic acid are pretty much the same and the two names are used interchangeably. As cosmetic chemist kindofstephen writes on reddit "sodium hyaluronate disassociates into hyaluronic acid molecule and a sodium atom in solution". In spite of this, if you search for "hyaluronic acid vs sodium hyaluronate" you will find on multiple places that sodium hyaluronate is smaller and can penetrate the skin better. Chemically, this is definitely not true, as the two forms are almost the same, both are polymers and the subunits can be repeated in both forms as much as you like. (We also checked what‑it‑does antioxidant | soothing antioxidant | antimicrobial/antibacterial skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. moisturizer/humectant moisturizer/humectant | solvent moisturizer/humectant | emollient solvent | emulsifying | perfuming | surfactant/cleansing soothing | moisturizer/humectant emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing chelating | buffering

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