BIOSSANCE Squalane + Daily Mineral SPF 50 Sunscreen

BIOSSANCE Squalane + Daily Mineral SPF 50 Sunscreen BIOSSANCE Squalane + Daily Mineral SPF 50 Sunscreen ingredients explained: Water, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Butyloctyl Salicylate, Pentylene Glycol, Glycerin, Squalane*, Silica, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter, Carthamus Tinctorius (Safflower) Seed Oil, Alumina, Hydrogenated Lecithin, Phenoxyethanol, Polyhydroxystearic Acid, Hydroxyethyl Acrylate/Sodium Acryloyldimethyl Taurate Copolymer, Propanediol, Stearic Acid, Niacinamide, Jojoba Esters, 1,2-Hexanediol, Allantoin, Tocopheryl Acetate, Xanthan Gum, Glycine Soja (Soybean) Oil, Sodium Hyaluronate, Tocopherol, Glycogen, Ethylhexylglycerin, Caprylhydroxamic Acid, Sorbitan Isostearate, Citric Acid, Sodium Hydroxide Show all ingredients by function Water solvent Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride emollient Butyloctyl Salicylate Pentylene Glycol solvent, moisturizer/​humectant Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Squalane* skin-identical ingredient, emollient 0, 1 goodie Silica viscosity controlling Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter Carthamus Tinctorius (Safflower) Seed Oil antioxidant, emollient 0, 0-2 Alumina viscosity controlling, abrasive/​scrub Hydrogenated Lecithin emollient, emulsifying Phenoxyethanol preservative Polyhydroxystearic Acid emulsifying Hydroxyethyl Acrylate/Sodium Acryloyldimethyl Taurate Copolymer Propanediol Stearic Acid emollient, viscosity controlling 0, 2-3 Niacinamide cell-communicating ingredient, skin brightening, anti-acne, moisturizer/​humectant Jojoba Esters soothing, emollient, moisturizer/​humectant 1,2-Hexanediol Allantoin soothing Tocopheryl Acetate antioxidant Xanthan Gum Glycine Soja (Soybean) Oil emollient, perfuming 0, 3 Sodium Hyaluronate Tocopherol 0-3, 0-3 Glycogen moisturizer/​humectant Ethylhexylglycerin Caprylhydroxamic Acid chelating Sorbitan Isostearate 0, 1-2 Citric Acid buffering Sodium Hydroxide 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. A nice, multi-functional helper ingredient that's especially useful in sunscreens. It can solubilize some commonly used UV-filters like Oxybenzone or Avobenzone and it can also help to increase the SPF rating of sunscreens. It's also cosmetically elegant, has excellent spreadability and a pleasant, moisturizing skin feel. Oh, and according to Wikipedia, it even helps to stabilize famously unstable UVA-filter, Avobenzone. A multi-functional, silky feeling helper ingredient that can do quite many things. It's used as an emulsion stabilizer, solvent and a broad spectrum antimicrobial. According to manufacturer info, it's also a moisturizer and helps to make the product feel great on the skin. It works synergistically with preservatives and helps to improve water-resistance of sunscreens. 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 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 al what‑it‑does solvent | moisturizer/humectant skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. skin-identical ingredient | emollient antioxidant | emollient viscosity controlling | abrasive/scrub emollient | emulsifying emollient | viscosity controlling cell-communicating ingredient | skin brightening | anti-acne | moisturizer/humectant soothing | emollient | moisturizer/humectant emollient | perfuming moisturizer/humectant