PCA Skin Rebalance (Discontinued)

PCA Skin Rebalance (Discontinued) PCA Skin Rebalance ingredients explained: Water/Aqua/Eau, Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice, Ethylhexyl Isononanoate, Glycereth-26, Butylene Glycol, Sodium Hyaluronate, Hydroxyethyl Acrylate/Sodium Acryloyldimethyl Taurate Copolymer, Polyisobutene, Peg-7 Trimethylolpropane Coconut Ether, Panthenol, Carbomer, Niacinamide, Bisabolol, Borago Officinalis Seed Oil, Oenothera Biennis (Evening Primrose) Oil, Tocopheryl Acetate, Sodium Hydroxide, Phenoxyethanol, Iodopropynyl Butylcarbamate Show all ingredients by function Water/Aqua/Eau solvent Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice soothing, moisturizer/​humectant goodie Ethylhexyl Isononanoate emollient Glycereth-26 moisturizer/​humectant, emollient, viscosity controlling 0, 0 Butylene Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, solvent 0, 1 Sodium Hyaluronate skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant Hydroxyethyl Acrylate/Sodium Acryloyldimethyl Taurate Copolymer viscosity controlling Polyisobutene Peg-7 Trimethylolpropane Coconut Ether emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing Panthenol Carbomer Niacinamide cell-communicating ingredient, skin brightening, anti-acne, moisturizer/​humectant superstar Bisabolol soothing Borago Officinalis Seed Oil soothing, emollient Oenothera Biennis (Evening Primrose) Oil 2, 3 Tocopheryl Acetate antioxidant Sodium Hydroxide buffering Phenoxyethanol preservative Iodopropynyl Butylcarbamate 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. We don't have description for this ingredient yet. It's a nice glycerin-based humectant and emollient that gives skin a smooth and luxurious feel. Butylene glycol, or let’s just call it BG, is a multi-tasking colorless, syrupy liquid. It’s a great pick for creating a nice feeling product. BG’s main job is usually to be a solvent for the other ingredients. Other tasks include helping the product to absorb faster and deeper into the skin (penetration enhancer), making the product spread nicely over the skin (slip agent), and attracting water (humectant) into the skin. It’s an ingredient whose safety hasn’t been questioned so far by anyone (at least not that we know about). BG is approved by Ecocert and is also used enthusiastically in natural products. BTW, it’s also a food additive. It’s the - sodium form - cousin of the famous NMF, hyaluronic acid (HA). If HA does not tell you anything we have a super detailed, geeky explanation about it here. The TL; DR version of HA is that it's a huge polymer (big molecule from repeated subunits) found in the skin that acts as a sponge helping the skin to hold onto water, being plump and elastic. HA is famous for its crazy water holding capacity as it can bind up to 1000 times its own weight in water. As far as skincare goes, sodium hyaluronate and hyaluronic acid are pretty much the same and the two names are used interchangeably. As cosmetic chemist kindofstephen writes on reddit "sodium hyaluronate disassociates into hyaluronic acid molecule and a sodium atom in solution". In spite of this, if you search for "hyaluronic acid vs sodium hyaluronate" you will find on multiple places that sodium hyaluronate is smaller and can penetrate the skin better. Chemically, this is definitely not true, as the two fo what‑it‑does soothing | moisturizer/humectant moisturizer/humectant | emollient | viscosity controlling irritancy, com. moisturizer/humectant | solvent skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing cell-communicating ingredient | skin brightening | anti-acne | moisturizer/humectant soothing | emollient

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