PCA Skin Daily Defense Mist

PCA Skin Daily Defense Mist PCA Skin Daily Defense Mist ingredients explained: Water, Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice, Glycerin, Propanediol, Phenoxyethanol, Caprylyl/Capryl Glucoside, Marrubium Vulgare Extract, Sodium Citrate, Cucumis Sativus (Cucumber) Fruit Extract, Taraxacum Officinale (Dandelion) Extract, Sodium Cocoyl Glutamate, Citric Acid, Polyglyceryl-6 Oleate, Glyceryl Caprylate, Sodium Carrageenan, Jania Rubens Extract, Sodium Surfactin Show all ingredients by function Water solvent Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice soothing, moisturizer/​humectant goodie Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Propanediol solvent, moisturizer/​humectant Phenoxyethanol preservative Caprylyl/Capryl Glucoside surfactant/​cleansing Marrubium Vulgare Extract soothing Sodium Citrate chelating, buffering Cucumis Sativus (Cucumber) Fruit Extract soothing, emollient Taraxacum Officinale (Dandelion) Extract Sodium Cocoyl Glutamate Citric Acid buffering Polyglyceryl-6 Oleate emulsifying Glyceryl Caprylate Sodium Carrageenan viscosity controlling Jania Rubens Extract Sodium Surfactin surfactant/​cleansing, emulsifying, viscosity controlling 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. Aloe Vera is one of today’s magic plants. It does have some very nice properties indeed, though famous dermatologist Leslie Baumann warns us in her book that most of the evidence is anecdotal and the plant might be a bit overhyped. What research does confirm about Aloe is that it’s a great moisturizer and has several anti-inflammatory (among others contains salicylates, polysaccharides, magnesium lactate and C-glucosyl chromone) as well as some antibacterial components. It also helps wound healing and skin regeneration in general. All in all definitely a goodie. 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. It’s pretty much the current IT-preservative. It’s safe and gentle, but even more importantly, it’s not a feared-by-everyone-mostly-without-scientific-reason paraben. It’s not something new: it was introduced around 1950 and today it can be used up to 1% worldwide. It can be found in nature - in green tea - but the version used in cosmetics is synthetic. Other than having a good safety profile and being quite gentle to the skin it has some other advantages too. It can be used in many types of formulations as it has great thermal stability (can be heated up to 85°C) and works on a wide range of pH levels (ph 3-10). It’s often used together with ethylhexylglycerin as it nicely improves the preservative activity of phenoxyethanol. We don't have description for this ingredient yet. A little helper ingredient that is used to adjust the pH of the product. It also helps to keep products stay nice longer by neutralizing the metal ions in th what‑it‑does soothing | moisturizer/humectant skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. solvent | moisturizer/humectant surfactant/cleansing chelating | buffering soothing | emollient surfactant/cleansing | emulsifying | viscosity controlling

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