
Le Blanc Targeted Brightening Spot Corrector Txc
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Ingredient name | what-it-does | irr., com. | ID-Rating |
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Aqua/Water | solvent | ||
Cetyl Ethylhexanoate | emollient | ||
Cetyl Tranexamate Hcl | |||
Dipropylene Glycol | solvent, perfuming, viscosity controlling | ||
Squalane | skin-identical ingredient, emollient | 0, 1 | goodie |
Cetyl Alcohol | emollient, emulsifying, viscosity controlling, surfactant/cleansing | 2, 2 | |
Butylene Glycol | moisturizer/humectant, solvent, viscosity controlling | 0, 1 | |
Batyl Alcohol | emollient | ||
PEG-40 Stearate | emulsifying, surfactant/cleansing | ||
Methylparaben | preservative | 0, 0 | |
BHT | antioxidant, preservative | ||
Glycyrrhiza Glabra (Licorice) Root Extract | soothing, skin brightening | superstar | |
Hydrolyzed Conchiolin Protein |
Chanel Le Blanc Targeted Brightening Spot Corrector TxcIngredients explained
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.
An odorless and colorless emollient ester (cetyl alcohol + ethylhexanoic acid) that gives a velvety and silky feel to the skin. It has great spreadability and a non-oily feel. It's a popular ingredient in makeup removers.
We don't have description for this ingredient yet.
A clear, colorless liquid that works as a solvent and viscosity decreasing ingredient. It also has great skin-moisturizing abilities.
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.
A so-called fatty (the good, non-drying kind of) alcohol that does all kinds of things in a skincare product: it makes your skin feel smooth and nice (emollient), helps to thicken up products and also helps water and oil to blend (emulsifier). Can be derived from coconut or palm kernel oil.
Butylene glycol, or let’s just call it BG, is a multi-tasking colorless, syrupy liquid. It’s a great pick for creating a nice feeling product.
BG’s main job is usually to be a solvent for the other ingredients. Other tasks include helping the product to absorb faster and deeper into the skin (penetration enhancer), making the product spread nicely over the skin (slip agent), and attracting water (humectant) into the skin.
We don't have description for this ingredient yet.
A common water-loving surfactant and emulsifier that helps to keep water and oil mixed nicely together.
The most common type of feared-by-everyone-mostly-without-scientific-reason parabens. It's a cheap, effective and well-tolerated ingredient to make sure the cosmetic formula does not go wrong too soon.
Apart from the general controversy around parabens (we wrote about it more here), there is a 2006 in-vitro (made in the lab not on real people) research about methylparaben (MP) showing that when exposed to sunlight, MP treated skin cells suffered more harm than non-MP treated skin cells. The study was not done with real people on real skin but still - using a good sunscreen next to MP containing products is a good idea. (Well, in fact using a sunscreen is always a good idea. :))
It's the acronym for Butylated Hydroxy Toluene. It's a common synthetic antioxidant that's used as a preservative.
There is some controversy around BHT. It's not a new ingredient, it has been used both as a food and cosmetics additive since the 1970s. Plenty of studies tried to examine if it's a carcinogen or not. This Truth in Aging article details the situation and also writes that all these studies examine BHT when taken orally.
You might know licorice as a sweet treat from your childhood, but it's actually a legume that grows around the Mediterranean Sea, the Middle East, central and southern Russia. It's sweet and yellow and not only used for licorice all sorts but it's also a skincare superstar thanks to two magic properties:
Nr. 1 magic property is that it has skin-lightening or to say it another way depigmenting properties. The most active part is called glabridin. The topical application (meaning when you put it on your face) of 0.5% glabridin was shown to inhibit UVB caused pigmentation of guinea pigs. Another study even suggested that licorice is more effective than the gold standard skin-lightening agent hydroquinone. All in all, licorice is considered to be one of the safest skin lightening agents with the fewest side effects.
We don't have description for this ingredient yet.
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what‑it‑does | solvent |
what‑it‑does | emollient |
what‑it‑does | solvent | perfuming | viscosity controlling |
what‑it‑does | skin-identical ingredient | emollient |
irritancy, com. | 0, 1 |
what‑it‑does | emollient | emulsifying | viscosity controlling | surfactant/cleansing |
irritancy, com. | 2, 2 |
what‑it‑does | moisturizer/humectant | solvent | viscosity controlling |
irritancy, com. | 0, 1 |
what‑it‑does | emollient |
what‑it‑does | emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing |
what‑it‑does | preservative |
irritancy, com. | 0, 0 |
what‑it‑does | antioxidant | preservative |
what‑it‑does | soothing | skin brightening |