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Paula's Choice Moisture Boost Essential Hydrating Toner
Paula's Choice Moisture Boost Essential Hydrating Toner Paula's Choice Moisture Boost Essential Hydrating Toner ingredients explained: Water, Glycerin, Pentylene Glycol, Polysorbate 20, Superoxide Dismutase, Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract, Epilobium Angu
Paula's Choice Moisture Boost Essential Hydrating Toner Paula's Choice Moisture Boost Essential Hydrating Toner ingredients explained: Water, Glycerin, Pentylene Glycol, Polysorbate 20, Superoxide Dismutase, Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract, Epilobium Angustifolium Extract, Vitis Vinifera (Grape) Seed Extract, Sodium PCA, Creatine, Lecithin, Linoleic Acid, Linolenic Acid, Sodium PEG-7 Olive Oil Carboxylate, Magnesium Ascorbyl Phosphate, Tocopheryl Acetate, Butylene Glycol, Panthenol, Allantoin, PEG-40 Hydrogenated Castor Oil, Hydroxyethylcellulose, Phenoxyethanol Show all ingredients by function Water solvent Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/humectant 0, 0 superstar Pentylene Glycol solvent, moisturizer/humectant Polysorbate 20 emulsifying, surfactant/cleansing Superoxide Dismutase antioxidant goodie Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract antioxidant, soothing Epilobium Angustifolium Extract Vitis Vinifera (Grape) Seed Extract antioxidant, antimicrobial/antibacterial Sodium PCA Creatine Lecithin emollient, emulsifying Linoleic Acid skin-identical ingredient, emollient, surfactant/cleansing Linolenic Acid skin-identical ingredient, emollient, surfactant/cleansing, perfuming Sodium PEG-7 Olive Oil Carboxylate emulsifying Magnesium Ascorbyl Phosphate skin brightening, antioxidant Tocopheryl Acetate Butylene Glycol moisturizer/humectant, solvent 0, 1 Panthenol soothing, moisturizer/humectant Allantoin soothing PEG-40 Hydrogenated Castor Oil Hydroxyethylcellulose viscosity controlling Phenoxyethanol 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. 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 multi-functional, silky feeling helper ingredient that can do quite many things. It's used as an emulsion stabilizer, solvent and a broad spectrum antimicrobial. According to manufacturer info, it's also a moisturizer and helps to make the product feel great on the skin. It works synergistically with preservatives and helps to improve water-resistance of sunscreens. It's a common little helper ingredient that helps water and oil to mix together. Also, it can help to increase the solubility of some other ingredients in the formula. Superoxide Dismutase - or in short SOD - is the body's smart antioxidant enzyme that protects the cells from highly reactive, cell-damaging superoxide radicals (O2−). You have probably read the terms "free radicals" and "antioxidants" a thousand times, and you know that free radicals are the evil guys, and antioxidants are the good guys. So superoxide radical is a very common free radical that can cause all kinds of cell damages and superoxide dismutase is an enzyme that catalyzes the conversion of superoxide radicals into molecular oxygen and hydrogen peroxide (btw, this one has to be further converted by other antioxidant enzymes, called catalases). The extra nice thing about SOD is that it remains intact during the neutralization process and can continue its magic, while non-enzymatic antioxidants (like vitamin E) are used up during neutralization. The efficacy studies of topical SOD are promising. In-vitro (made in the lab) tests show that SOD is a more effective antioxidant than vitamin E, green tea extract, and MAP. There is also an in-vivo (made on real people) study that measured how SOD can reduce the redness caused by UV rays and it was much more effective than vitamin E (pure or acetate form) and ascorbyl palmitate. All in all, SOD is a really potent antioxidant and slathering it all what‑it‑does skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. solvent | moisturizer/humectant emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing antioxidant | soothing antioxidant | antimicrobial/antibacterial emollient | emulsifying skin-identical ingredient | emollient | surfactant/cleansing skin-identical ingredient | emollient | surfactant/cleansing | perfuming skin brightening | antioxidant moisturizer/humectant | solvent soothing | moisturizer/humectant