BIOSSANCE Squalane + 10% Azelaic​ Pore Minimizing Mask

BIOSSANCE Squalane + 10% Azelaic​ Pore Minimizing Mask BIOSSANCE Squalane + 10% Azelaic​ Pore Minimizing Mask ingredients explained: Water/Aqua/Eau, Glycerin, Azelaic Acid, Kaolin, Glyceryl Stearate SE, Cetearyl Alcohol, C12-15 Alkyl Benzoate, Sodium Acrylates Copolymer, Squalane*, Phenoxyethanol, Decyl Glucoside, Lecithin, Ethylhexylglycerin, Sodium Gluconate, Cinnamomum Camphora (Camphor) Bark Oil, Benzoic Acid, Eucalyptus Globulus Oil, Limonene, Chromium Oxide Greens (Ci 77288) Show all ingredients by function Water/Aqua/Eau solvent Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Azelaic Acid anti-acne, soothing, buffering Kaolin colorant, abrasive/​scrub goodie Glyceryl Stearate SE emulsifying 2, 3 Cetearyl Alcohol emollient, viscosity controlling, emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing 1, 2 C12-15 Alkyl Benzoate emollient, antimicrobial/​antibacterial Sodium Acrylates Copolymer viscosity controlling Squalane* skin-identical ingredient, emollient 0, 1 Phenoxyethanol preservative Decyl Glucoside surfactant/​cleansing Lecithin emollient, emulsifying Ethylhexylglycerin Sodium Gluconate chelating, moisturizer/​humectant Cinnamomum Camphora (Camphor) Bark Oil Benzoic Acid Eucalyptus Globulus Oil perfuming, antimicrobial/​antibacterial icky Limonene perfuming, solvent Chromium Oxide Greens (Ci 77288) colorant 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 Superstar ingredient with antibacterial, skin cell regulating, anti-inflammatory and skin-lightening magic properties It is especially useful for acne-prone or rosacea-prone skin types (in concentration 10% and up) It is a prescription drug in the US but can be freely purchased in the EU in an up to 10% concentration Kaolin is a type of clay or to be precise, a naturally occurring hydrous aluminum silicate. When you hear clay, you probably think of a muddy greenish-black mess, but that one is bentonite, and this one is a fine, white powder. It is so white that it's also often used, in small amounts, as a helper ingredient to give opacity and whiteness to the cosmetic formulas. As a clay, it's absorbent and can suck up excess sebum and gunk from your skin, but less so than the more aggressive bentonite. As it's less absorbent, it's also less drying and gentler on the skin, so it's ideal for dry and sensitive skin types. 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-loving soap molecules, such as sodium stearate. This increases Glyceryl Stearate's affinity for water and gives it stronger emulsifying abilities. Other than that, it’s a nice emollient that gives a smooth and soft appearance to the skin. You can read some more at Glyceryl Stearate >> An extremely common multitasker ingredient that gives your skin a nice soft feel (emollient) and gives body to creams and lotions. It also helps to stabilize oil-water mixes (emulsions), though it does not function as an emulsifier in itself. Its typical use level in most cream type formulas is 2-3%. It’s a so-called fatty alcohol, a mix of cetyl and stearyl alcohol, oth what‑it‑does skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. anti-acne | soothing | buffering colorant | abrasive/scrub emollient | viscosity controlling | emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing emollient | antimicrobial/antibacterial skin-identical ingredient | emollient surfactant/cleansing emollient | emulsifying chelating | moisturizer/humectant perfuming | antimicrobial/antibacterial perfuming | solvent