Biologique Recherche Toleskin [c]

Biologique Recherche Toleskin [c] Biologique Recherche Toleskin [c] ingredients explained: Aqua (Water), Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Squalane, Arachidyl Alcohol, Butylene Glycol, Glycerin, Behenyl Alcohol, Terminalia Ferdinandiana Fruit Extract, Ophiopogon Japonicus Root Extract, Cynanchum Atratum Extract, Maltodextrin, Polyglycerin-6, Citric Acid, Sorbitan Oleate, Sorbitan Isostearate, Glucose, Arachidyl Glucoside, Sodium Acrylate/Sodium Acryloyldimethyl Taurate Copolymer, C15-19 Alkane, Polyglyceryl-6 Laurate Show all ingredients by function Aqua (Water) solvent Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride emollient Squalane skin-identical ingredient, emollient 0, 1 goodie Arachidyl Alcohol emollient, viscosity controlling Butylene Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, solvent Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Behenyl Alcohol Terminalia Ferdinandiana Fruit Extract antioxidant, skin brightening Ophiopogon Japonicus Root Extract Cynanchum Atratum Extract Maltodextrin Polyglycerin-6 moisturizer/​humectant Citric Acid buffering Sorbitan Oleate emulsifying 0, 3 Sorbitan Isostearate 0, 1-2 Glucose Arachidyl Glucoside emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing Sodium Acrylate/Sodium Acryloyldimethyl Taurate Copolymer viscosity controlling C15-19 Alkane Polyglyceryl-6 Laurate 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 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. It seems to us that squalane is in fashion and there is a reason for it. Chemically speaking, it is a saturated (no double bonds) hydrocarbon (a molecule consisting only of carbon and hydrogen), meaning that it's a nice and stable oily liquid with a long shelf life. It occurs naturally in certain fish and plant oils (e.g. olive), and in the sebum (the oily stuff our skin produces) of the human skin. As f.c. puts it in his awesome blog post, squalane's main things are "emolliency, surface occlusion, and TEWL prevention all with extreme cosmetic elegance". In other words, it's a superb moisturizer that makes your skin nice and smooth, without being heavy or greasy. Another advantage of squalane is that it is pretty much compatible with all skin types and skin conditions. It is excellent for acne-prone skin and safe to use even if you have fungi-related skin issues, like seborrhea or fungal acne. The unsaturated (with double bonds) and hence less stable version of Squalane is Squalene, you can read about it here >> A fatty alcohol (the non-drying type with a long oil loving chain of 20 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). 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. A natural moisturizer that’s also in our skin A super common, safe, effective and cheap molecule used fo what‑it‑does skin-identical ingredient | emollient irritancy, com. emollient | viscosity controlling moisturizer/humectant | solvent skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant antioxidant | skin brightening moisturizer/humectant emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing