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Paula's Choice Resist Barrier Repair Moisturiser
Paula's Choice Resist Barrier Repair Moisturiser Paula's Choice Resist Barrier Repair Moisturiser ingredients explained: Water, Dicaprylyl Carbonate, Glycerin, Ethylhexyl Stearate, Cocoglycerides, Squalane, Sodium Polyacrylate, Lecithin, Adenosine, Pa
Paula's Choice Resist Barrier Repair Moisturiser Paula's Choice Resist Barrier Repair Moisturiser ingredients explained: Water, Dicaprylyl Carbonate, Glycerin, Ethylhexyl Stearate, Cocoglycerides, Squalane, Sodium Polyacrylate, Lecithin, Adenosine, Palmitoyl Tripeptide-1, Ceramide Np, Retinol, Punica Granatum Extract, Camellia Oleifera (Green Tea) Leaf Extract, Glycyrrhiza Glabra (Licorice) Root Extract, Tetrahydrodiferuloylmethane, Tetrahydrodemethoxydiferuloylmethane, Tetrahydrobisdemethoxydiferuloylmethane, Tocopheryl Acetate, Chamomilla Recutita (Matricaria) Flower Extract , Glycine Soja Seed Extract, Glycine Soja Oil, Butylene Glycol, Propylene Glycol, Glyceryl Polymethacrylate, Xanthan Gum, Phenoxyethanol Show all ingredients by function Water solvent Dicaprylyl Carbonate emollient Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/humectant 0, 0 superstar Ethylhexyl Stearate Cocoglycerides emollient, emulsifying Squalane skin-identical ingredient, emollient 0, 1 goodie Sodium Polyacrylate viscosity controlling Lecithin Adenosine cell-communicating ingredient Palmitoyl Tripeptide-1 Ceramide Np skin-identical ingredient Retinol Punica Granatum Extract Camellia Oleifera (Green Tea) Leaf Extract antioxidant, soothing Glycyrrhiza Glabra (Licorice) Root Extract soothing, skin brightening Tetrahydrodiferuloylmethane antioxidant, skin brightening, soothing Tetrahydrodemethoxydiferuloylmethane Tetrahydrobisdemethoxydiferuloylmethane Tocopheryl Acetate antioxidant Chamomilla Recutita (Matricaria) Flower Extract soothing, antioxidant Glycine Soja Seed Extract antioxidant, skin brightening, soothing, emollient Glycine Soja Oil emollient, perfuming 0, 3 Butylene Glycol moisturizer/humectant, solvent Propylene Glycol Glyceryl Polymethacrylate Xanthan Gum 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 clear, colorless, almost odorless oil that spreads nicely and easily and gives a velvet dry skin feel. It is good friends with sunscreen agents and helps to solubilize them. Also, it makes sunscreens feel lighter and spread easier. 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 clear, almost colorless (or slightly yellowish) oily liquid (an ester to be precise) that's used as a medium spreading emollient. It gives skin a nice and smooth after-feel and it's very good at reducing oiliness or greasiness coming from other heavier oils in the formula. We don't have description for this ingredient yet. It seems to us that squalane is in fashion and there is a reason for it. Chemically speaking, it is a saturated (no double bonds) hydrocarbon (a molecule consisting only of carbon and hydrogen), meaning that it's a nice and stable oily liquid with a long shelf life. It occurs naturally in certain fish and plant oils (e.g. olive), and in the sebum (the oily stuff our skin produces) of the human skin. As f.c. puts it in his awesome blog post, squalane's main things are "emolliency, surface occlusion, and TEWL prevention all with extreme cosmetic elegance". In other words, it's a superb moisturizer that makes your skin nice and smooth, without being heavy or greasy. Another advantage of squalane is that it is pretty much compatible with all skin types and skin conditions. It is excellent for acne-prone skin and safe to use even if you have fungi-related skin issues, like seborrhea or fungal acne. The unsaturated (with double bonds) and hence less stable version of Squalane is Squalene, you can read about it here >> A superabsorbent polymer (big molecule from repeated subunits) that has crazy water binding abilities. Sometimes its referred to as "waterlock" and can absorb 100 to 1000 times its mass in water. As for its use in cosmetic products, it is a handy multi-tasker that t what‑it‑does skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. emollient | emulsifying skin-identical ingredient | emollient antioxidant | soothing soothing | skin brightening antioxidant | skin brightening | soothing soothing | antioxidant antioxidant | skin brightening | soothing | emollient emollient | perfuming moisturizer/humectant | solvent