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Paula's Choice Skin Restoring Moisturizer With SPF 15
Paula's Choice Skin Restoring Moisturizer With SPF 15 Paula's Choice Skin Restoring Moisturizer With SPF 15 ingredients explained: Water, Octinoxate, Homosalate, Octisalate, Oxybenzone, Silica, Glycerin, Avobenzone, Cetearyl Alcohol, Dimethicone, But
Paula's Choice Skin Restoring Moisturizer With SPF 15 Paula's Choice Skin Restoring Moisturizer With SPF 15 ingredients explained: Water, Octinoxate, Homosalate, Octisalate, Oxybenzone, Silica, Glycerin, Avobenzone, Cetearyl Alcohol, Dimethicone, Butylene Glycol, Pentylene Glycol, Potassium Cetyl Phosphate, Cyclopentasiloxane, Pyrus Malus (Apple) Fruit Extract , Vp/Eicosene Copolymer, Allantoin, Niacinamide, Tocopherol, Glycyrrhiza Glabra (Licorice) Root Extract, Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice, Atractylodes Macrocephala Root Powder , Avena Sativa (Oat) Kernel Extract, Coffea Arabica Seed Extract, Portulaca Oleracea Extract, Mahonia Aquifolium Root Extract , Diethylhexyl Syringylidenemalonate, Sarcosine, Capryloyl Glycine, Maltooligosyl Glucoside, Cetearyl Glucoside, Dimethiconol, Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer, Hydrogenated Starch Hydrolysate , Hexylene Glycol, 4-T-Butylcyclohexanol, Glyceryl Stearate, PEG-100 Stearate, Sodium Hydroxide, Xanthan Gum, Disodium EDTA, Phenoxyethanol, Capry Show all ingredients by function Water solvent Octinoxate sunscreen 0, 0 Homosalate Octisalate Oxybenzone icky Silica viscosity controlling Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/humectant superstar Avobenzone goodie Cetearyl Alcohol emollient, viscosity controlling, emulsifying, surfactant/cleansing 1, 2 Dimethicone emollient 0, 1 Butylene Glycol moisturizer/humectant, solvent Pentylene Glycol solvent, moisturizer/humectant Potassium Cetyl Phosphate emulsifying, surfactant/cleansing Cyclopentasiloxane emollient, solvent Pyrus Malus (Apple) Fruit Extract moisturizer/humectant Vp/Eicosene Copolymer Allantoin soothing Niacinamide cell-communicating ingredient, skin brightening, anti-acne, moisturizer/humectant Tocopherol antioxidant 0-3, 0-3 Glycyrrhiza Glabra (Licorice) Root Extract soothing, skin brightening Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice soothing, moisturizer/humectant Atractylodes Macrocephala Root Powder Avena Sativa (Oat) Kernel Extract antioxidant, soothing, emollient, abrasive/scrub Coffea Arabica Seed Extract Portulaca Oleracea Extract soothing, antioxidant Mahonia Aquifolium Root Extract Diethylhexyl Syringylidenemalonate Sarcosine Capryloyl Glycine surfactant/cleansing Maltooligosyl Glucoside Cetearyl Glucoside Dimethiconol emollient, moisturizer/humectant Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer Hydrogenated Starch Hydrolysate Hexylene Glycol solvent, emulsifying, perfuming, surfactant/cleansing 0-1, 0-2 4-T-Butylcyclohexanol soothing, cell-communicating ingredient Glyceryl Stearate emollient, emulsifying PEG-100 Stearate surfactant/cleansing, emulsifying Sodium Hydroxide buffering Xanthan Gum Disodium EDTA chelating Phenoxyethanol preservative Caprylyl Glycol moisturizer/humectant, emollient Ethylhexylglycerin 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, oil-soluble, "cosmetically-elegant" liquid that is the most commonly used chemical sunscreen. It absorbs UVB radiation (at wavelengths: 280-320 nm) with a peak protection at 310nm. It only protects against UVB and not UVA rays (the 320-400 nm range) – so always choose products that contain other sunscreens too. It is not very stable either, when exposed to sunlight, it kind of breaks down and loses its effectiveness (not instantly, but over time - it loses 10% of its SPF protection ability within 35 mins). To make it more stable it can be - and should be - combined with other sunscreen agents to give stable and broad-spectrum protection (the new generation sunscreen agent, Tinosorb S is a particularly good one for that). Regarding safety, there are also some concerns around Octinoxate. In vitro (made in the lab not on real people) and animal studies have shown that it may produce hormonal (estrogen-like) effects. Do not panic, the studies were not conducted under real life conditions on real human people, so it is probably over-cautious to avoid Octinoxate altogether. However, if you are pregnant or a small child (under 2 yrs. old), choose a physical (zinc oxide/titanium dioxide) or new-generation Tinosorb based sunscreen, just to be on the super-safe side. :) Overall, Ethylhexyl Methoxycinnamate is an old-school chemical sunscreen agent. There are plenty of better options for sun protection today, but it is considered "safe as used" (and sunscreens are pretty well regulated) and it is available worldwide (can be used up to 10% in the EU and up to 7.5% in the US). An oil-soluble chemical sunscreen agent that protects the skin from UVB (295-315 nm) with a peak protection at 306 nm. Homosalate is not a strong UV filter in and of itself (gives only SPF 4.3 protection at max. allowed 10% concentration) and it is not photostable (looses 10% of its SPF protection in 45 mins) so it always has to be combined with other sunscreens for proper protection. Its big advantage, though, is that it is a liquid and is excellent for dissolving other hard to solubilize powder sunscreen agents, like the famous Avobenzone. Regarding Homosalate's safety profile, we do not have the best news. In-vitro (made in the labs) studies have shown that it might have some estrogenic activity. Do not panic, these studies wer what‑it‑does irritancy, com. skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant emollient | viscosity controlling | emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing moisturizer/humectant | solvent solvent | moisturizer/humectant emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing emollient | solvent moisturizer/humectant cell-communicating ingredient | skin brightening | anti-acne | moisturizer/humectant soothing | skin brightening soothing | moisturizer/humectant antioxidant | soothing | emollient | abrasive/scrub soothing | antioxidant surfactant/cleansing emollient | moisturizer/humectant solvent | emulsifying | perfuming | surfactant/cleansing soothing | cell-communicating ingredient emollient | emulsifying surfactant/cleansing | emulsifying moisturizer/humectant | emollient