Paula's Choice Skin Perfecting 8% AHA Lotion

Paula's Choice Skin Perfecting 8% AHA Lotion Paula's Choice Skin Perfecting 8% AHA Lotion ingredients explained: Water (Aqua), Glycolic Acid, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Glycerin, Sodium Hydroxide, Beheneth-5, Behenyl Alcohol, Dimethicone, Neopentyl Glycol Dicaprylate/Dicaprate, Polyglyceryl-3 Stearate, Undecane, Phospholipids, Allantoin, Tocopheryl Acetate, Chamomilla Recutita (Matricaria) Flower Extract, Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Oil, Bisabolol, Arctium Lappa Root Extract, Dipotassium Glycyrrhizate, Panthenol, Sodium Acrylates Copolymer, Tridecane, Hydrogenated Polyisobutene, Sclerotium Gum, Polyglyceryl-10 Stearate, Disodium EDTA, Ethylhexylglycerin, Phenoxyethanol Show all ingredients by function Water (Aqua) solvent Glycolic Acid exfoliant, buffering superstar Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride emollient Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 Sodium Hydroxide buffering Beheneth-5 Behenyl Alcohol emollient, viscosity controlling Dimethicone 0, 1 Neopentyl Glycol Dicaprylate/Dicaprate Polyglyceryl-3 Stearate emulsifying Undecane Phospholipids skin-identical ingredient, emollient goodie Allantoin soothing Tocopheryl Acetate antioxidant Chamomilla Recutita (Matricaria) Flower Extract soothing, antioxidant Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Oil Bisabolol Arctium Lappa Root Extract antioxidant, soothing Dipotassium Glycyrrhizate soothing, moisturizer/​humectant Panthenol Sodium Acrylates Copolymer viscosity controlling Tridecane perfuming Hydrogenated Polyisobutene 2, 1 Sclerotium Gum Polyglyceryl-10 Stearate Disodium EDTA chelating Ethylhexylglycerin preservative 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. It’s the most researched AHA with the most proven skin benefits It gently lifts off dead skin cells to reveal newer, fresher, smoother skin It can help skin’s own collagen production that results in firmer, younger skin It can fade brown spots caused by sun damage or PIH Choose a product where you know the concentration and pH value because these two greatly influence effectiveness Don’t forget to use your sunscreen (in any case but especially so next to an AHA product) Slight stinging or burning with a stronger AHA product is normal If your skin is very sensitive, rosacea prone choose rather a BHA or PHA product A super common emollient that makes your skin feel nice and smooth. It comes from coconut oil and glycerin, it’s light-textured, clear, odorless and non-greasy. It’s a nice ingredient that just feels good on the skin, is super well tolerated by every skin type and easy to formulate with. No wonder it’s popular. 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 The unfancy name for it is lye. It’s a solid white stuff that’s very alkaline and used in small amounts to adjust the pH of the product and make it just right. For example, in case of AHA or BHA exfoliants, the right pH is super-duper important, and pH adjusters like sodium hydroxide are needed. BTW, lye is not something new. It was already used by ancient Egyptians to help oil and fat magically turn into something else. Can you guess what? Yes, it’s soap. It still often shows up in the ingredient list of soaps and other cleansers. Sodium hydroxide in itself is a potent skin irritant, but once it's reacted (as it is usually in skin care products, like exfoliants) it is totally harmless. We don't have description for this ingredient yet. A fatty alcohol (the non-drying type with a long oil loving chain of 22 carbon atoms) that is used to increase the viscosity of the formula and it also helps the oily and the what‑it‑does exfoliant | buffering skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. emollient | viscosity controlling skin-identical ingredient | emollient soothing | antioxidant antioxidant | soothing soothing | moisturizer/humectant

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