Paula's Choice: PC 4 Men Shave

Paula's Choice: PC 4 Men Shave Paula's Choice: PC 4 Men Shave ingredients explained: Water (Aqua), Stearic Acid, Myristic Acid, Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Oil, Glycerin, Potassium Hydroxide, Allantoin, Glycyrrhiza Glabra (Licorice) Root Extract, Arctium Majus (Burdock) Root Extract, Carnosine, Boerhavia Diffusa Root Extract, Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice, Sodium Hydroxide, Hydroxyphenyl Propamidobenzoic Acid, Disodium EDTA, Caprylyl Glycol, Butylene Glycol, Benzalkonium Chloride, Phenoxyethanol Show all ingredients by function Water (Aqua) solvent Stearic Acid emollient, viscosity controlling 0, 2-3 Myristic Acid surfactant/​cleansing, emulsifying, perfuming 0, 3 Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Oil emollient, perfuming 0, 4 goodie Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Potassium Hydroxide buffering Allantoin soothing Glycyrrhiza Glabra (Licorice) Root Extract soothing, skin brightening Arctium Majus (Burdock) Root Extract Carnosine antioxidant, cell-communicating ingredient Boerhavia Diffusa Root Extract Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice soothing, moisturizer/​humectant Sodium Hydroxide Hydroxyphenyl Propamidobenzoic Acid Disodium EDTA chelating Caprylyl Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, emollient Butylene Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, solvent 0, 1 Benzalkonium Chloride antimicrobial/​antibacterial, preservative, surfactant/​cleansing 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 common multi-tasker fatty acid. It makes your skin feel nice and smooth (emollient), gives body to cream type products and helps to stabilize water and oil mixes (aka emulsions). A 14 carbon length fatty acid that can be naturally found in nutmeg, palm kernel oil, coconut oil and butter fat. It's used as a foam building cleansing agent. Paula Begoun writes that it can be a bit drying to the skin. There is definitely some craze going on for coconut oil both in the healthy eating space (often claimed to be the healthiest oil to cook with but this is a topic for another site) and in the skin and hair care space. We will talk here about the latter two and see why we might want to smear it all over ourselves. Chemically speaking, coconut oil has a unique fatty acid profile. Unlike many plant oils that mostly contain unsaturated fatty acids (fatty acids with double bonds and kinky structure such as linoleic or oleic), coconut oil is mostly saturated (fatty acids with single bonds only) and its most important fatty acid is Lauric Acid (about 50%). Saturated fatty acids have a linear structure that can stack nice and tight and hence they are normally solid at room temperature. Coconut oil melts around 25 °C so it is solid in the tub but melts on contact with the skin. The saturated nature of coconut oil also means that it is a heavy-duty-oil ideal for dry skin types. A double-blind research confirmed that extra virgin coconut oil is as effective in treating xerosis (aka very dry skin) as mineral oil. Another study found that coconut oil is more effective than mineral oil in treating mild to moderate atopic dermatitis (aka eczema) in children. So when it comes to dry skin, coconut oil is a goodie, no question there. The question is if it is good or bad for acne-prone skin. Its main fatty acid, Lauric Acid has some research showing that it is a promising ingredient against evil acne-causing bacteria, P. acnes but at the same time, both Lauric Acid and coconut oil have a very high comedogenic rating (4 out of 5). Though comedogenic ratings are not very reliable, anecdotal evidence (i.e. people commenting in forums) shows that people have mixed experiences. While some claim that it worked wonders on their acne others say that it gave them serious blackheads and zits. Try it at your own risk. As for hair care, what‑it‑does emollient | viscosity controlling irritancy, com. surfactant/cleansing | emulsifying | perfuming emollient | perfuming skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant soothing | skin brightening antioxidant | cell-communicating ingredient soothing | moisturizer/humectant moisturizer/humectant | emollient moisturizer/humectant | solvent antimicrobial/antibacterial | preservative | surfactant/cleansing

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