Paula's Choice Skin Balancing Oil-Absorbing Mask

Paula's Choice Skin Balancing Oil-Absorbing Mask Paula's Choice Skin Balancing Oil-Absorbing Mask ingredients explained: Water (Aqua), Kaolin, Bentonite, Glycerin, Salix Alba (Willow) Bark Extract, Steareth-2, Stearic Acid, Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice Powder, Sea Whip Extract, Colloidal Oatmeal, Bisabolol, Ascorbyl Palmitate, Tocopheryl Acetate, Phospholipids, Panthenol, Retinyl Palmitate, Butylene Glycol, Disodium EDTA, Phenoxyethanol, Caprylyl Glycol, Ethylhexylglycerin, Hexylene Glycol Show all ingredients by function Water (Aqua) solvent Kaolin colorant, abrasive/​scrub 0, 0 goodie Bentonite viscosity controlling Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant superstar Salix Alba (Willow) Bark Extract soothing Steareth-2 emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing 2, 2 Stearic Acid emollient, viscosity controlling 0, 2-3 Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice Powder soothing, moisturizer/​humectant Sea Whip Extract Colloidal Oatmeal soothing, antioxidant, emollient, abrasive/​scrub Bisabolol Ascorbyl Palmitate antioxidant 0, 2 icky Tocopheryl Acetate Phospholipids skin-identical ingredient, emollient Panthenol Retinyl Palmitate cell-communicating ingredient 1-3, 1-3 Butylene Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, solvent 0, 1 Disodium EDTA chelating Phenoxyethanol preservative Caprylyl Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, emollient Ethylhexylglycerin Hexylene Glycol solvent, emulsifying, perfuming, surfactant/​cleansing 0-1, 0-2 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. Kaolin is a type of clay or to be precise, a naturally occurring hydrous aluminum silicate. When you hear clay, you probably think of a muddy greenish-black mess, but that one is bentonite, and this one is a fine, white powder. It is so white that it's also often used, in small amounts, as a helper ingredient to give opacity and whiteness to the cosmetic formulas. As a clay, it's absorbent and can suck up excess sebum and gunk from your skin, but less so than the more aggressive bentonite. As it's less absorbent, it's also less drying and gentler on the skin, so it's ideal for dry and sensitive skin types. When it comes to oil-absorbing clay masks, bentonite will probably be one of the first ingredients on the INCI list. Technically bentonite clay is mostly montmorillonite + something else, and thanks to the something else bit, bentonite comes in different types and colors. The color depends on the mineral content of the clay: white bentonite is rich in boron and fluoride, yellow is rich in manganese and zinc, green is rich in copper, zinc, and manganese and the pink clay is rich in boron. No matter the color, bentonite is excellent at absorbing things: it can suck up the sebum and gunk from the skin and make it instantly smooth and matte. Not only that, but bentonite has a negative ionic charge and thus can attract things with a positive charge. Things with a positive charge include bad bacteria and toxins and bentonite clay masks can help to clear those out of the skin and pores (btw, bentonite is edible and has the same detoxifying effect internally). Thanks to bentonite's effect against bad bacteria and pathogens, there is also some research showing that bentonite can help to calm skin infections, soothe skin allergies and might work for skin conditions like psoriasis and eczema. On the other hand, the downside of bentonite being such a good absorbent is that it can suck up more than the excess sebum and used too often, it can easily dry out the skin. So use it for good measure, and never forget to moisturize afterwards. 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 irri what‑it‑does colorant | abrasive/scrub irritancy, com. skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing emollient | viscosity controlling soothing | moisturizer/humectant soothing | antioxidant | emollient | abrasive/scrub skin-identical ingredient | emollient moisturizer/humectant | solvent moisturizer/humectant | emollient solvent | emulsifying | perfuming | surfactant/cleansing

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