BIOSSANCE Squalane + Tea Tree Cleansing Gel

BIOSSANCE Squalane + Tea Tree Cleansing Gel BIOSSANCE Squalane + Tea Tree Cleansing Gel ingredients explained: Water, Decyl Glucoside, Glycerin, Squalane, Xanthan Gum, Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice, Sodium Lauroyl Oat Amino Acids, Lactobacillus, Glyceryl Stearate, Caprylyl/Capryl Glucoside, Alpha Glucan Oligosaccharide, Citric Acid, Melaleuca Alternifolia (Tea Tree) Leaf Oil, Polymnia Sonchifolia Root Juice, Lavandula Angustifolia (Lavender) Oil, Phenoxyethanol, Ethylhexylglycerin, Sodium Gluconate, Maltodextrin, Limonene, Linalool Show all ingredients by function Water solvent Decyl Glucoside surfactant/​cleansing Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Squalane skin-identical ingredient, emollient 0, 1 goodie Xanthan Gum viscosity controlling Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice soothing, moisturizer/​humectant Sodium Lauroyl Oat Amino Acids Lactobacillus Glyceryl Stearate emollient, emulsifying Caprylyl/Capryl Glucoside Alpha Glucan Oligosaccharide Citric Acid buffering Melaleuca Alternifolia (Tea Tree) Leaf Oil soothing, anti-acne, antioxidant, antimicrobial/​antibacterial, perfuming Polymnia Sonchifolia Root Juice Lavandula Angustifolia (Lavender) Oil antimicrobial/​antibacterial, perfuming icky Phenoxyethanol preservative Ethylhexylglycerin Sodium Gluconate chelating, moisturizer/​humectant Maltodextrin Limonene perfuming, solvent 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 vegetable origin (coconut or palm kernel oil and glucose) cleansing agent with great foaming abilities. It's also mild to the skin and readily biodegradable. 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 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 >> It's one of the most commonly used thickeners and emulsion stabilizers. If the product is too runny, a little xanthan gum will make it more gel-like. Used alone, it can make the formula sticky and it is a good team player so it is usually combined with other thickeners and so-called rheology modifiers (helper ingredients that adjust the flow and thus the feel of the formula). The typical use level of Xantha Gum is below 1%, it is usually in the 0.1-0.5% range. Btw, Xanthan gum is all natural, a chain of sugar molecules (polysaccharide) produced from individual sugar molecules (glucose and sucrose) via fermentation. It’s approved by Ecocert and also used in th what‑it‑does surfactant/cleansing skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. skin-identical ingredient | emollient soothing | moisturizer/humectant emollient | emulsifying soothing | anti-acne | antioxidant | antimicrobial/antibacterial | perfuming antimicrobial/antibacterial | perfuming chelating | moisturizer/humectant perfuming | solvent