BIOSSANCE Squalane + 70% Alcohol Hand Sanitizer

BIOSSANCE Squalane + 70% Alcohol Hand Sanitizer BIOSSANCE Squalane + 70% Alcohol Hand Sanitizer ingredients explained: (70%) Alcohol, Aqua, Squalane, Glycerin, Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer, Aminomethyl Propanol, Denatonium Benzoate Show all ingredients by function (70%) Alcohol antimicrobial/​antibacterial, solvent, viscosity controlling icky Aqua solvent Squalane skin-identical ingredient, emollient 0, 1 goodie Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer viscosity controlling Aminomethyl Propanol buffering Denatonium Benzoate Simply alcohol refers to ethanol and it's a pretty controversial ingredient. It has many instant benefits: it's a great solvent, penetration enhancer, creates cosmetically elegant, light formulas, great astringent and antimicrobial. No wonder it's popular in toners and oily skin formulas. The downside is that it can be very drying if it's in the first few ingredients on an ingredient list. Expand to read more Some experts even think that regular exposure to alcohol damages skin barrier and causes inflammation though it's a debated opinion. If you wanna know more, we wrote a more detailed explanation about what's the deal with alcohol in skincare products at alcohol denat. (it's also alcohol, but with some additives to make sure no one drinks it). 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. 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. 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 Though its long name does not reveal it, this polymer molecule (big molecule from repeated what‑it‑does antimicrobial/antibacterial | solvent | viscosity controlling skin-identical ingredient | emollient irritancy, com. skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant