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Paula's Choice Resist Weekly Retexturizing Foaming Treatment 4% Bha

Paula's Choice Resist Weekly Retexturizing Foaming Treatment 4% Bha Paula's Choice Resist Weekly Retexturizing Foaming Treatment 4% Bha ingredients explained: Water (Aqua), Butylene Glycol, Salicylic Acid, Cocamidopropyl Dimethylamine, Polysorbate 20, Camellia

Paula's Choice Resist Weekly Retexturizing Foaming Treatment 4% Bha Paula's Choice Resist Weekly Retexturizing Foaming Treatment 4% Bha ingredients explained: Water (Aqua), Butylene Glycol, Salicylic Acid, Cocamidopropyl Dimethylamine, Polysorbate 20, Camellia Sinensis (Green Tea) Leaf Extract, Glycyrrhiza Glabra (Licorice) Root Extract, Sodium Ascorbyl Phosphate, Dipotassium Glycyrrhizate, Adenosine, Allantoin, Glycerin, Vitis Vinifera (Grape) Seed Extract, Salix Alba (Willow) Bark Extract, Salix Nigra (Willow) Bark Extract, Avena Sativa (Oat) Kernel Extract, Borago Officinalis (Borage) Extract, Ulmus Fulva (Slippery Elm) Bark Extract, Lamium Album (White Nettle) Flower Extract, Arctium Lappa (Burdock) Root Extract, Chamomilla Recutita (Matricaria) Flower Extract, Boerhavia Diffusa Root Extract, Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Extract, Olea Europaea (Olive) Fruit Oil, Carthamus Tinctorius (Safflower) Seed Oil, Polysorbate 80, Disodium Edta, Peg/Ppg-17/6 Copolymer, Aminomethyl Propanol, Ethylhexylglycerin, Potassium Sorbate, Phenoxyethanol Show all ingredients by function Water (Aqua) solvent Butylene Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, solvent 0, 1 Salicylic Acid exfoliant, anti-acne, soothing, preservative superstar Cocamidopropyl Dimethylamine emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing Polysorbate 20 0, 0 Camellia Sinensis (Green Tea) Leaf Extract antioxidant, soothing goodie Glycyrrhiza Glabra (Licorice) Root Extract soothing, skin brightening Sodium Ascorbyl Phosphate antioxidant, anti-acne Dipotassium Glycyrrhizate soothing, moisturizer/​humectant Adenosine cell-communicating ingredient Allantoin soothing Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant Vitis Vinifera (Grape) Seed Extract antioxidant, antimicrobial/​antibacterial Salix Alba (Willow) Bark Extract Salix Nigra (Willow) Bark Extract Avena Sativa (Oat) Kernel Extract antioxidant, soothing, emollient, abrasive/​scrub Borago Officinalis (Borage) Extract emollient Ulmus Fulva (Slippery Elm) Bark Extract moisturizer/​humectant Lamium Album (White Nettle) Flower Extract Arctium Lappa (Burdock) Root Extract Chamomilla Recutita (Matricaria) Flower Extract soothing, antioxidant Boerhavia Diffusa Root Extract Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Extract soothing, emollient, moisturizer/​humectant Olea Europaea (Olive) Fruit Oil antioxidant, emollient 0, 0-2 Carthamus Tinctorius (Safflower) Seed Oil Polysorbate 80 Disodium Edta chelating Peg/Ppg-17/6 Copolymer emollient, solvent Aminomethyl Propanol buffering Ethylhexylglycerin preservative Potassium Sorbate Phenoxyethanol 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. It's one of the gold standard ingredients for treating problem skin It can exfoliate skin both on the surface and in the pores It's a potent anti-inflammatory agent It's more effective for treating blackheads than acne For acne combine it with antibacterial agents like benzoyl peroxide or azelaic acid A surfactant with a positively charged head that has good foaming properties and can be used in cleansing products both for the skin and the hair. If you see this guy in a non-cleansing product then it's probably combined with salicylic acid. The two together go by the trade name Curcylic 40, and cocamidopropyl dimethylamine works there to make salicylic acid water soluble and stable. 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. Green tea is one of the most researched natural ingredients The active parts are called polyphenols, or more precisely catechins (EGCG being the most abundant and most active catechin) There can be huge quality differences between green tea extracts. The good ones contain 50-90% catechins (and often make the product brown and give it a distinctive smell) Green tea is proven to be a great antioxidant, UV protectant, anti-inflammatory, anticarcinogenic and antimicrobial Because of these awesome properties green tea is a great choice for anti-aging and also for skin diseases including rosacea, acne and atopic dermatitis You might know licorice as a sweet treat from your childhood, but it's actually a legume that grows around the Mediterranean Sea, the Middle East, central and southern Russia. It's sweet and yellow and not only what‑it‑does moisturizer/humectant | solvent irritancy, com. exfoliant | anti-acne | soothing | preservative emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing antioxidant | soothing soothing | skin brightening antioxidant | anti-acne soothing | moisturizer/humectant skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant antioxidant | antimicrobial/antibacterial antioxidant | soothing | emollient | abrasive/scrub moisturizer/humectant soothing | antioxidant soothing | emollient | moisturizer/humectant antioxidant | emollient emollient | solvent

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