Vitamins and Sea Beauty Seaweed Glycolic Acid Exfoliating Face Toner

Vitamins and Sea Beauty Seaweed Glycolic Acid Exfoliating Face Toner Vitamins and Sea Beauty Seaweed Glycolic Acid Exfoliating Face Toner ingredients explained: Water(Aqua), Glycerin, Propanediol, Polysorbate 20, Glycolic Acid, Tocopheryl Acetate (Vitamin E), Aloe Barbadensis (Aloe Vera) Leaf Extract, Algae Extract, PEG-12 Dimethicone, BHT, Retinyl Palmitate, Fragrance (Parfum), Phenoxyethanol, Ethylhexylglycerin, Aminomethyl Propanol, Blue 1 (Ci 42090), Yellow 6 (Ci 15985) Show all ingredients by function Water(Aqua) solvent Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Propanediol solvent, moisturizer/​humectant Polysorbate 20 emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing Glycolic Acid exfoliant, buffering Tocopheryl Acetate (Vitamin E) antioxidant Aloe Barbadensis (Aloe Vera) Leaf Extract soothing, emollient, moisturizer/​humectant goodie Algae Extract emollient, moisturizer/​humectant PEG-12 Dimethicone BHT antioxidant, preservative Retinyl Palmitate cell-communicating ingredient 1-3, 1-3 Fragrance (Parfum) perfuming icky Phenoxyethanol preservative Ethylhexylglycerin Aminomethyl Propanol buffering Blue 1 (Ci 42090) colorant Yellow 6 (Ci 15985) 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 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 a common little helper ingredient that helps water and oil to mix together. Also, it can help to increase the solubility of some other ingredients in the formula. It’s the most researched AHA with the most proven skin benefits It gently lifts off dead skin cells to reveal newer, fresher, smoother skin It can help skin’s own collagen production that results in firmer, younger skin It can fade brown spots caused by sun damage or PIH Choose a product where you know the concentration and pH value because these two greatly influence effectiveness Don’t forget to use your sunscreen (in any case but especially so next to an AHA product) Slight stinging or burning with a stronger AHA product is normal If your skin is very sensitive, rosacea prone choose rather a BHA or PHA product It’s the most commonly used version of pure vitamin E in cosmetics. You can read all about the pure form here. This one is the so-called esterified version. According to famous dermatologist, Leslie Baumann while tocopheryl acetate is more stable and has a longer shelf life, it’s also more poorly absorbed by the skin and may not have the same awesome photoprotective effects as pure Vit E. The extract coming from the juice containing leaves of the Aloe vera plant. It's usually a hydroglycolic extract (though oil extract for the lipid parts also exists) that has similar moisturizing, emollient and anti-inflammatory properties as the juice itself. We have written some more about aloe here. We have to admit that Algae Ex what‑it‑does skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. solvent | moisturizer/humectant emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing exfoliant | buffering soothing | emollient | moisturizer/humectant emollient | moisturizer/humectant antioxidant | preservative

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