BIOSSANCE Squalane + Omega Repair Hand Cream

BIOSSANCE Squalane + Omega Repair Hand Cream BIOSSANCE Squalane + Omega Repair Hand Cream ingredients explained: Water, Glycerin, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Squalane, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter, Sorbitan Olivate, Cetearyl Olivate, Cetearyl Alcohol, Jojoba Esters, Cetyl Palmitate, Ceramide NP, Euterpe Oleracea Sterols, Tocopherol, Linoleic Acid, Oleic Acid, Linolenic Acid, Ethylhexylglycerin, Carbomer, Phenoxyethanol, Sodium Gluconate, Sodium Hydroxide, Sorbitan Palmitate Show all ingredients by function Water solvent Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride emollient Squalane skin-identical ingredient, emollient 0, 1 goodie Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter Sorbitan Olivate emulsifying Cetearyl Olivate Cetearyl Alcohol emollient, viscosity controlling, emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing 1, 2 Jojoba Esters soothing, emollient, moisturizer/​humectant Cetyl Palmitate Ceramide NP skin-identical ingredient Euterpe Oleracea Sterols Tocopherol antioxidant 0-3, 0-3 Linoleic Acid skin-identical ingredient, emollient, surfactant/​cleansing Oleic Acid emollient, emulsifying Linolenic Acid skin-identical ingredient, emollient, surfactant/​cleansing, perfuming Ethylhexylglycerin preservative Carbomer viscosity controlling Phenoxyethanol Sodium Gluconate chelating, moisturizer/​humectant Sodium Hydroxide buffering Sorbitan Palmitate 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 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 >> Unless you live under a rock you must have heard about shea butter. It's probably the most hyped up natural butter in skincare today. It comes from the seeds of African Shea or Karite Trees and used as a magic moisturizer and emollient. But it's not only a simple emollient, it regenerates and soothes the skin, protects it from external factors (such as UV rays or wind) and is also rich in antioxidants (among others vitamin A, E, F, quercetin and epigallocatechin gallate). If you are looking for rich emollient what‑it‑does skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. skin-identical ingredient | emollient emollient | viscosity controlling | emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing soothing | emollient | moisturizer/humectant skin-identical ingredient | emollient | surfactant/cleansing emollient | emulsifying skin-identical ingredient | emollient | surfactant/cleansing | perfuming chelating | moisturizer/humectant