So being a wax ester results in a couple of unique properties: First, jojoba oil is extremely stable. It’s safe and gentle, but even more importantly, it’s not a feared-by-everyone-mostly-without-scientific-reason paraben. An emollient and natural moisturizer that can be found also in the sebum (oily stuff our skin produces).

Despite still sporting a snobbish attitude I also do use a lot of German generics, too because admittedly they perform good and don’t make me cry about the money I loose on every use.

For example, in case of AHA or BHA exfoliants, the right pH is super-duper important, and pH adjusters like sodium hydroxide are needed. Edit this product page to correct spelling mistakes in the ingredients list, and/or to remove ingredients in other languages and sentences that are not related to the ingredients. I would definitely apply this shadow over a primer or base to make the colours show up more and to make it last longer.

Overall, just like glycerin, urea is a real oldie but a goodie, a nice ingredient in any moisturizer. An extremely common multitasker ingredient that gives your skin a nice soft feel (emollient) and gives body to creams and lotions. Though I have to say that I use their anti dandruff shampoo and it really helps with my dry and sensitive scalp, I swear not an easy task with the water quality we have in Cologne.For frequent and daily washing, showering, bathing, for washing hair and blemishes of youthful skin. Mark up can be pretty extreme considering the difficulties how these products are brought into the country. c. puts it in his awesome blog post, squalane's main things are " emolliency , surface occlusion, and TEWL prevention all with extreme cosmetic elegance".

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.It’s often used together with ethylhexylglycerin as it nicely improves the preservative activity of phenoxyethanol.