PLUM Coconut Milk & Peptides Strength & Shine Conditioner

PLUM Coconut Milk & Peptides Strength & Shine Conditioner PLUM Coconut Milk & Peptides Strength & Shine Conditioner ingredients explained: Aqua, Cetearyl Alcohol, Paraffinum Liquidum, PEG-40 Castor Oil, Stearalkonium Chloride, Behentrimonium Chloride, Isopropyl Alcohol, Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Oil, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter, Pisum Sativum (Pea) Peptide, Squalane, Amodimethicone, Hydrogenated Olive Oil, Olea Europaea Fruit Oil, Olea Europaea Oil Unsaponifiables, Phenoxyethanol, Ethylhexylglycerin, Coco-Glucoside, Phenyl Trimethicone, Disodium EDTA, Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Extract, Glycerin, Fragrance, Xanthan Gum, Pentaerythrityl Tetra-Di-T-Butyl Hydroxyhydrocinnamate, Citric Acid Show all ingredients by function Aqua solvent Cetearyl Alcohol emollient, viscosity controlling, emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing 1, 2 Paraffinum Liquidum emollient, solvent 0, 0-2 PEG-40 Castor Oil emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing 0, 0 Stearalkonium Chloride preservative, surfactant/​cleansing Behentrimonium Chloride preservative Isopropyl Alcohol solvent, viscosity controlling, perfuming icky Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Oil emollient, perfuming 0, 4 goodie Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter emollient Pisum Sativum (Pea) Peptide Squalane skin-identical ingredient, emollient 0, 1 Amodimethicone Hydrogenated Olive Oil viscosity controlling Olea Europaea Fruit Oil antioxidant, emollient Olea Europaea Oil Unsaponifiables Phenoxyethanol Ethylhexylglycerin Coco-Glucoside surfactant/​cleansing Phenyl Trimethicone Disodium EDTA chelating Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Extract Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant superstar Fragrance perfuming Xanthan Gum Pentaerythrityl Tetra-Di-T-Butyl Hydroxyhydrocinnamate antioxidant, preservative Citric Acid buffering 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. An extremely common multitasker ingredient that gives your skin a nice soft feel (emollient) and gives body to creams and lotions. It also helps to stabilize oil-water mixes (emulsions), though it does not function as an emulsifier in itself. Its typical use level in most cream type formulas is 2-3%. It’s a so-called fatty alcohol, a mix of cetyl and stearyl alcohol, other two emollient fatty alcohols. Though chemically speaking, it is alcohol (as in, it has an -OH group in its molecule), its properties are totally different from the properties of low molecular weight or drying alcohols such as denat. alcohol. Fatty alcohols have a long oil-soluble (and thus emollient) tail part that makes them absolutely non-drying and non-irritating and are totally ok for the skin. The famous or maybe rather infamous mineral oil. The clear oily liquid that is the "cheap by-product" of refining crude oil and the one that gets a lot of heat for its poor provenance. It is a very controversial ingredient with pros and cons and plenty of myths around it. So let us see them: The pros of mineral oil Trust us, if something is used for more than 100 years in cosmetic products, it has advantages. Chemically speaking, cosmetic grade mineral oil is a complex mixture of highly refined saturated hydrocarbons with C15-50 chain length. It is not merely a "by-product" but rather a specifically isolated part of petroleum that is very pure and inert. It is a great emollient and moisturizer working mainly by occlusivity. Occlusivity is one of the basic mechanisms of how moisturizers work and it means that mineral oil sits on top of the skin and hinders so-called trans-epidermal water loss, i.e water evaporating out of your skin. When compared to heavy-duty plant oil, extra virgin coconut oil, the two of them were equally efficient and safe as moisturizers in treating xerosis, a skin condition connected to very dry skin. The other thing that mineral oil is really good at is being non-irritating to the skin. The chemical composition of plant oils is more complex with many more possible allergens or irritating components, while mineral oil is simple, pure and sensitivity to it is extremely rare. If you check out the classic French pharmacy brands and their moisturizers for the most sensitive, allergy prone skin, they usually contain min what‑it‑does emollient | viscosity controlling | emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing irritancy, com. emollient | solvent emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing preservative | surfactant/cleansing solvent | viscosity controlling | perfuming emollient | perfuming skin-identical ingredient | emollient antioxidant | emollient surfactant/cleansing skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant antioxidant | preservative