Paula's Choice Refreshing Moisture Mist

Paula's Choice Refreshing Moisture Mist Paula's Choice Refreshing Moisture Mist ingredients explained: Water (Aqua), Butylene Glycol, Hydroxyethyl Urea, Glycerin, Dipotassium Phosphate, Punica Granatum Extract, Collagen Amino Acids, Palmitoyl Tripeptide-8, Sodium Hyaluronate, Euterpe Oleracea Fruit Extract, Tripleurospermum Maritimum Extract, Adenosine, Panthenol, Ethylhexylglycerin, Disodium Edta, Propylene Glycol, Phosphoric Acid, Dextran, Sodium Hydroxide, Phenoxyethanol, Potassium Sorbate Show all ingredients by function Water (Aqua) solvent Butylene Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, solvent 0, 1 Hydroxyethyl Urea moisturizer/​humectant goodie Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Dipotassium Phosphate buffering Punica Granatum Extract Collagen Amino Acids Palmitoyl Tripeptide-8 soothing Sodium Hyaluronate Euterpe Oleracea Fruit Extract Tripleurospermum Maritimum Extract Adenosine cell-communicating ingredient Panthenol soothing, moisturizer/​humectant Ethylhexylglycerin preservative Disodium Edta chelating Propylene Glycol Phosphoric Acid Dextran viscosity controlling Sodium Hydroxide Phenoxyethanol Potassium Sorbate 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. 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 derivative of Urea, that works as a strong moisturizer and humectant meaning that it helps the skin to cling onto water and thus to make it hydrated and elastic. According to manufacturer's data, Hydroxyethyl Urea has a similar moisturizing ability to glycerin (measured at 5%), but it feels nicer on the skin as it is non-sticky and non-tacky and gives a lubricous and moist feeling to the skin. 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 We don't have description for this ingredient yet. Amino acids are important natural moisturizing factors (NMFs), that can be found naturally in the skin where they help the epidermis (upper layer of the skin) to stay nice and hydrated. Amino acids are also the building blocks of proteins, such as collagen, so when you thoroughly chop up a big collagen molecule, you end up with an amino acid mixture, like this guy we are writing about. Btw, if you chop it up less thoroughly, you get hydrolyzed collagen, a kind of peptide mixture with smallish chains of amino acids. Amino acids have low molecular weight (about 150 Da), so they can penetrate the upper layer of the skin where they help moisture retention and enhance the skin's suppleness and flexibility. In hair care, Collagen Amino Acids are able to i what‑it‑does moisturizer/humectant | solvent irritancy, com. moisturizer/humectant skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant soothing | moisturizer/humectant

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