PCA Skin Creamy Cleanser

PCA Skin Creamy Cleanser PCA Skin Creamy Cleanser ingredients explained: Water/Aqua/Eau, Glycerin, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Behenyl Alcohol, Sodium Methyl Cocoyl Taurate, Cocamidopropyl Betaine, Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Oil, Phenoxyethanol, Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer, Aminomethyl Propanol, Disodium Cocoyl Glutamate, Rosa Canina Fruit Oil, Caprylyl Glycol, Sucrose Distearate, Sucrose Stearate, Xanthan Gum, Ethylhexylglycerin, Sodium Cocoyl Glutamate, Tocopherol, Hexylene Glycol, Lavandula Angustifolia (Lavender) Oil, Yucca Schidigera Leaf/Root/Stem Extract, Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice Show all ingredients by function Water/Aqua/Eau solvent Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride emollient Behenyl Alcohol emollient, viscosity controlling Sodium Methyl Cocoyl Taurate surfactant/​cleansing Cocamidopropyl Betaine Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Oil goodie Phenoxyethanol preservative Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer viscosity controlling Aminomethyl Propanol buffering Disodium Cocoyl Glutamate Rosa Canina Fruit Oil Caprylyl Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, emollient Sucrose Distearate emollient, emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing 2, 0 Sucrose Stearate Xanthan Gum Ethylhexylglycerin Sodium Cocoyl Glutamate Tocopherol antioxidant 0-3, 0-3 Hexylene Glycol solvent, emulsifying, perfuming, surfactant/​cleansing 0-1, 0-2 Lavandula Angustifolia (Lavender) Oil antimicrobial/​antibacterial, perfuming icky Yucca Schidigera Leaf/Root/Stem Extract Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice soothing, moisturizer/​humectant 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 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 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 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 watery parts to stay nicely mixed together (called emulsion stabilizing). A mild and non-drying cleanser that gives skin a nice and soft after-feel. It also has great foaming properties, comes from coconuts and it's biodegradable. Super common ingredient in all kinds of cleansing products: face and body washes, shampoos and foam baths. Number one reason for its popularity has to do with bubbles. Everyone loves bubbles. And cocamidopropyl betaine is great at stabilizing them. The other reason is that it’s mild and works very well combined with other cleansing agents and surfactants. The art of cleansing is usually to balance between properly cleansing but not over-cleansing and cocamidopropyl betaine is helpful in pulling off this balance right. Oh, and one more nice thing: even though it’s synthetic it’s highly biodegradable. More info on CAPB on Collins Beaty Pages. 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. what‑it‑does skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. emollient | viscosity controlling surfactant/cleansing moisturizer/humectant | emollient emollient | emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing solvent | emulsifying | perfuming | surfactant/cleansing antimicrobial/antibacterial | perfuming soothing | moisturizer/humectant

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