Product and ingredient reference
Paula's Choice Skincare Calm Rescue & Repair Intensive Moisturizer
Paula's Choice Skincare Calm Rescue & Repair Intensive Moisturizer Paula's Choice Skincare Calm Rescue & Repair Intensive Moisturizer ingredients explained: Water, C13-15 Alkane, Glycerin, Propanediol, Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Oil, Cetearyl Alco
Paula's Choice Skincare Calm Rescue & Repair Intensive Moisturizer Paula's Choice Skincare Calm Rescue & Repair Intensive Moisturizer ingredients explained: Water, C13-15 Alkane, Glycerin, Propanediol, Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Oil, Cetearyl Alcohol, Arachidyl Alcohol, Stearic Acid, Inulin, Behenyl Alcohol, Cetyl Alcohol, Butylene Glycol, Hydrogenated Lecithin, Myristyl Myristate, Arachidyl Glucoside, Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer, Caprylyl Glycol, Allantoin, Tocopherol, Ethylhexylglycerin, Hexylene Glycol, Xanthan Gum, Alpha Glucan Oligosaccharide, Sodium Phytate, Glycogen, Yeast Extract, Laminaria Digitata Extract, Albatrellus Confluens (Mushroom) Extract, Opuntia Ficus-Indica Stem Extract, Galactoarabinan, Schizophyllan, Citric Acid, Maltodextrin, Acetyl Hexapeptide-8, Phenoxyethanol, Potassium Sorbate Show all ingredients by function Water solvent C13-15 Alkane solvent, emollient Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/humectant 0, 0 superstar Propanediol solvent, moisturizer/humectant Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Oil emollient goodie Cetearyl Alcohol emollient, viscosity controlling, emulsifying, surfactant/cleansing 1, 2 Arachidyl Alcohol emollient, viscosity controlling Stearic Acid 0, 2-3 Inulin Behenyl Alcohol Cetyl Alcohol 2, 2 Butylene Glycol moisturizer/humectant, solvent 0, 1 Hydrogenated Lecithin emollient, emulsifying Myristyl Myristate 2, 0-5 Arachidyl Glucoside emulsifying, surfactant/cleansing Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer viscosity controlling Caprylyl Glycol moisturizer/humectant, emollient Allantoin soothing Tocopherol antioxidant 0-3, 0-3 Ethylhexylglycerin preservative Hexylene Glycol solvent, emulsifying, perfuming, surfactant/cleansing 0-1, 0-2 Xanthan Gum Alpha Glucan Oligosaccharide Sodium Phytate chelating Glycogen moisturizer/humectant Yeast Extract Laminaria Digitata Extract Albatrellus Confluens (Mushroom) Extract Opuntia Ficus-Indica Stem Extract Galactoarabinan Schizophyllan Citric Acid buffering Maltodextrin Acetyl Hexapeptide-8 cell-communicating ingredient, moisturizer/humectant Phenoxyethanol Potassium Sorbate 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 biodegradable emollient that gives a fresh gliding sensation and a powdery after feel. It works well with all kinds of oils including natural and silicone oils. 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 Propanediol is a natural alternative for the often used and often bad-mouthed propylene glycol. It's produced sustainably from corn sugar and it's Ecocert approved. It's quite a multi-tasker: can be used to improve skin moisturization, as a solvent, to boost preservative efficacy or to influence the sensory properties of the end formula. Sunflower does not need a big intro as you probably use it in the kitchen as cooking oil, or you munch on the seeds as a healthy snack or you adore its big, beautiful yellow flower during the summer - or you do all of these and probably even more. And by even more we mean putting it all over your face as sunflower oil is one of the most commonly used plant oils in skincare. It’s a real oldie: expressed directly from the seeds, the oil is used not for hundreds but thousands of years. According to The National Sunflower Association, there is evidence that both the plant and its oil were used by American Indians in the area of Arizona and New Mexico about 3000 BC. Do the math: it's more than 5000 years – definitely an oldie. Our intro did get pretty big after all (sorry for that), so let's get to the point finally: sunflower oil - similar to other plant oils - is a great emollient that makes the skin smooth and nice and helps to keep it hydrated. It also protects the surface of the skin and enhances the damaged or irritated skin barrier. Leslie Bauman notes in Cosmetic Dermatology that one application of sunflower oil significantly speeds up the recovery of the skin barrier within an hour and sustains the results 5 hours after using it. It's also loaded with fatty acids (mostly linoleic (50-74%) and oleic (14-35%)). The unrefined ver what‑it‑does solvent | emollient skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. solvent | moisturizer/humectant emollient | viscosity controlling | emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing emollient | viscosity controlling moisturizer/humectant | solvent emollient | emulsifying emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing moisturizer/humectant | emollient solvent | emulsifying | perfuming | surfactant/cleansing moisturizer/humectant cell-communicating ingredient | moisturizer/humectant