BIOSSANCE Squalane + 10% Lactic Acid Resurfacing Night Serum

BIOSSANCE Squalane + 10% Lactic Acid Resurfacing Night Serum BIOSSANCE Squalane + 10% Lactic Acid Resurfacing Night Serum ingredients explained: Water/Aqua/Eau, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Lactic Acid, Squalane, Glycerin, Sodium Hydroxide, Cetearyl Olivate, Propanediol, Sorbitan Olivate, Cetearyl Alcohol, Lespedeza Capitata Leaf/Stem Extract, Polyacrylate Crosspolymer-6, Acacia Senegal Gum, Sodium Gluconate, Xanthan Gum, Phenoxyethanol, Ethylhexylglycerin, Lavandula Angustifolia (Lavender) Oil, Linalool Show all ingredients by function Water/Aqua/Eau solvent Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride emollient Lactic Acid exfoliant, moisturizer/​humectant, buffering superstar Squalane skin-identical ingredient, emollient 0, 1 goodie Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 Sodium Hydroxide buffering Cetearyl Olivate emulsifying Propanediol solvent, moisturizer/​humectant Sorbitan Olivate Cetearyl Alcohol emollient, viscosity controlling, emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing 1, 2 Lespedeza Capitata Leaf/Stem Extract Polyacrylate Crosspolymer-6 viscosity controlling Acacia Senegal Gum Sodium Gluconate chelating, moisturizer/​humectant Xanthan Gum Phenoxyethanol preservative Ethylhexylglycerin Lavandula Angustifolia (Lavender) Oil antimicrobial/​antibacterial, perfuming icky Linalool perfuming 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’s the second most researched AHA after glycolic acid It gently lifts off dead skin cells to reveal newer, fresher, smoother skin It also has amazing skin hydrating properties In higher concentration (10% and up) it improves skin firmness, thickness and wrinkles 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) 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 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 The unfancy name for it is lye. It’s a solid w what‑it‑does exfoliant | moisturizer/humectant | buffering skin-identical ingredient | emollient irritancy, com. skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant solvent | moisturizer/humectant emollient | viscosity controlling | emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing chelating | moisturizer/humectant antimicrobial/antibacterial | perfuming