PCA Skin Hydrating Mask

PCA Skin Hydrating Mask PCA Skin Hydrating Mask ingredients explained: Water, Glycerin, Avena Sativa (Oat) Kernel Extract, Glycine Soja (Soybean) Oil, Carthamus Tinctorius (Safflower) Seed Oil, Glyceryl Stearate SE, Honey/Mel/Miel, Phenoxyethanol, Pectin, Xanthan Gum, Sucrose, Styrax Tonkinensis Resin Extract, Aniba Rosodora (Rosewood) Wood Oil, Ethylhexylglycerin, Potassium Sorbate, Sodium Hyaluronate, Panthenol, Arnica Montana Flower Extract, Cucumis Sativus (Cucumber) Fruit Extract, Anacyclus Pyrethrum Root Extract Show all ingredients by function Water solvent Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Avena Sativa (Oat) Kernel Extract antioxidant, soothing, emollient, abrasive/​scrub goodie Glycine Soja (Soybean) Oil emollient, perfuming 0, 3 Carthamus Tinctorius (Safflower) Seed Oil antioxidant, emollient 0, 0-2 Glyceryl Stearate SE emulsifying 2, 3 Honey/Mel/Miel soothing, moisturizer/​humectant, antimicrobial/​antibacterial Phenoxyethanol preservative Pectin viscosity controlling Xanthan Gum Sucrose moisturizer/​humectant, soothing Styrax Tonkinensis Resin Extract perfuming icky Aniba Rosodora (Rosewood) Wood Oil Ethylhexylglycerin Potassium Sorbate Sodium Hyaluronate Panthenol soothing, moisturizer/​humectant Arnica Montana Flower Extract Cucumis Sativus (Cucumber) Fruit Extract soothing, emollient Anacyclus Pyrethrum Root Extract 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 When you hear oatmeal, you probably think of breakfast, but the finely ground version of whole oat kernels, aka colloidal oatmeal, can do good things for your skin, especially if it's dry, itchy or prone to skin-rashes or eczema. Oat is loaded with compounds good for the body, inside or outside, such as soothing agent beta-glucan (5%), lipids (3-11%) including barrier repairing omega-3 and 6 fatty acids or phenolic antioxidant and anti-inflammatory agents (avenanthramides). The soothing, antioxidant and skin-protecting abilities of oat are so well-established that it is an active natural ingredient covered by the FDA OTC Skin Protectant monograph in the US, meaning that colloidal oatmeal can be claimed as an active ingredient on the INCI list and Aveeno is a mass-market brand built around oat-containing products. If your skin is dry, irritated, inflamed or eczema-prone, colloidal oatmeal is something to try. The emollient plant oil coming from the soybean. It is considered to be a nice, cost-effective base oil with moisturizing properties. As for its fatty acid profile, it contains 48-59% barrier-repairing linoleic acid, 17-30% nourishing oleic acid and also some (4.5-11%) potentially anti-inflammatory linolenic acid. The oil coming from the seeds of the yellow flowered safflower plant. Similar to other plant oils, it's loaded with nourishing and moisturizing fatty acids: it's a high linoleic acid oil (70%) and has only smaller amounts of oleic acid (11%) (this might be great for acne-prone skin). It also contains antioxidant vitamin E (44mg/100g alpha-tocopherol). An oily kind of ingredient that can magically blend with water all by itself. This is called self-emulsifying and SE in its name stands for that. The difference between "normal" Glyceryl Stearate and this guy is that the SE grade contains a small amount of water- what‑it‑does skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. antioxidant | soothing | emollient | abrasive/scrub emollient | perfuming antioxidant | emollient soothing | moisturizer/humectant | antimicrobial/antibacterial moisturizer/humectant | soothing soothing | moisturizer/humectant soothing | emollient

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