BIOSSANCE Squalane + Phyto-Retinol Serum

BIOSSANCE Squalane + Phyto-Retinol Serum BIOSSANCE Squalane + Phyto-Retinol Serum ingredients explained: Water, Squalane, Niacinamide, Sodium Acrylates Copolymer, Bakuchiol, Sodium Hyaluronate, Rosa Canina Fruit Oil, Citrus Aurantium Amara (Bitter Orange) Peel Oil, Biosaccharide Gum-1, Yeast Extract, Soy Amino Acids, Lecithin, Hexylene Glycol, Ethylhexylglycerin, Caprylyl Glycol, Phenoxyethanol, Tetrasodium Glutamate Diacetate, Citric Acid, Linalool, Geraniol, Limonene Show all ingredients by function Water solvent Squalane skin-identical ingredient, emollient 0, 1 goodie Niacinamide cell-communicating ingredient, skin brightening, anti-acne, moisturizer/​humectant superstar Sodium Acrylates Copolymer viscosity controlling Bakuchiol cell-communicating ingredient, antioxidant, antimicrobial/​antibacterial Sodium Hyaluronate skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 Rosa Canina Fruit Oil emollient Citrus Aurantium Amara (Bitter Orange) Peel Oil Biosaccharide Gum-1 soothing, moisturizer/​humectant Yeast Extract moisturizer/​humectant Soy Amino Acids Lecithin emollient, emulsifying Hexylene Glycol solvent, emulsifying, perfuming, surfactant/​cleansing 0-1, 0-2 Ethylhexylglycerin preservative Caprylyl Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, emollient Phenoxyethanol Tetrasodium Glutamate Diacetate chelating Citric Acid buffering Linalool perfuming icky Geraniol Limonene perfuming, solvent 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. 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 multi-functional skincare superstar with several proven benefits for the skin Great anti-aging, wrinkle smoothing ingredient used at 4-5% concentration Fades brown spots alone or in combination with amino sugar, acetyl glucosamine Increases ceramide synthesis that results in a stronger, healthier skin barrier and better skin hydration Can help to improve several skin conditions including acne, rosacea, and atopic dermatitis A big molecule from repeated subunits that is used to form gel-like textures and create a film on the skin. At first glance, you could think that Bakuchiol is your average plant extract. It is derived from the seeds of Psoralea Corylifolia, aka Babchi, a plant important in Indian and Chinese medicine. The molecule was first isolated in 1973 and several anti-something properties are known about it: it has anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, anti-tumor, anti-bacterial and hepatoprotective magical abilities like plenty of other Ayurvedic plant extracts. What makes Bakuchiol a special snowflake is the recent discovery that it behaves on the skin in a way very similar to well-known skincare superstar, retinol. While chemically, it has nothing to do with the vitamin-A family, aka retinoids, comparative gene expression profiling (a fancy way of saying that they compared how retino what‑it‑does skin-identical ingredient | emollient irritancy, com. cell-communicating ingredient | skin brightening | anti-acne | moisturizer/humectant cell-communicating ingredient | antioxidant | antimicrobial/antibacterial skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant soothing | moisturizer/humectant moisturizer/humectant emollient | emulsifying solvent | emulsifying | perfuming | surfactant/cleansing moisturizer/humectant | emollient perfuming | solvent