Algae Enzyme Cleansing Oil
Product Details
The ultimate glow starts with clean skin.
Cleanse, brighten and hydrate while gently sweeping away makeup and impurities with our multi-tasking Chia + Moringa® formula.
Our signature algae blend and four fruit enzymes–papaya, pineapple, grapefruit and pumpkin–work overtime to exfoliate, soften and smooth complexions while restoring the skin’s natural moisture. Formulated with all skin types in mind, our skin-soothing formula floods complexions with marine botanicals and squalane packed with vitamins, fatty acids and moisture for effortlessly clean skin that glows.
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Ingredients
QUATRE FRUIT ENZYME BLEND
Four powerful skin-smoothing fruit enzymes–papaya, pumpkin, pineapple and grapefruit–work overtime to gently exfoliate dull skin and hydrate for a bouncy, bright complexion.
SPIRULINA
Packed with cleansing chlorophyll and tyrosine that naturally slows down cellular aging, superfood spirulina has a host of benefits like increasing the skin’s metabolism for a healthy-looking glow.
KELP
One of the oldest plants on Earth–mineral and phytonutrient-rich kelp is loaded with antioxidants and vitamins A, B complex, C D & E to hydrate and retain moisture, remove toxins and reduce the appearance of blemishes.
CHIA
Super moisturizer rich in omega 3 & 6 fatty acids, vitamin B complex and polyphenols to calm senstive skin and deeply hydrate.
MORINGA
Miracle superfood with 90+ nutrients, 46 antioxidants and vitamins A, B, C, D & E for mega moisture and an insanely radiant glow. Our secret to a dewy, fresh complexion.
SQUALANE
Vitamin E superhero that provides incredible hydration, replenishes the moisture barrier and balances oil production for a silky smooth rinse off.
How to use
Shake well before use. Use morning and night on damp or dry skin to cleanse away makeup, impurities and grime.
Apply 1-2 pumps to hands and massage into skin for 20-30 seconds, rinse clean. Pro tip: leave on for 5 minutes for a deeper exfoliation.
Vegan. Gluten Free. Soy Free. Cruelty Free. Alcohol Free. No Fragrance. No Parabens. No Added Color. No Phtlathlates. No PEGs. Hypoallergenic. Clinically tested and Dermatologist tested.
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Интересные новинки косметики
В последнее время вышло очень много интересных новинок косметики. Я пишу далеко не обо всём, что выходит — это просто невозможно, но я стараюсь осветить всё самое интересное . На этой неделе у меня новинки от Votary, Mara, Kate Somerville, Biossance, DHC, Elizabeth Arden , Chantecaille и других брендов.
Новинки косметики
Votary Super Glow Mask ( £45.00 ) – отшелушивающая маслянистая маска для лица с салициловой кислотой и миксом питательных масел. Маска должна отшелушивать мертвые клетки, разглаживать кожу, придавать сияние.
Mara Chia + Moringa Algae Enzyme Cleansing Oil (£49.00/120ml) – гидрофильное масло для умывания с миксом масел, растительными экстрактами, энзимами папайи, ананаса и тыквы, а также с водорослями в составе . Масло должно не только очищать кожу, но и отшелушивать её (за счет энзимов), делая кожу более яркой и сияющей.
Mount Lai The Jade Eye Massage Tool ( $30.00) – на айхербе появился вот такой симпатичный нефритовый массажер для области вокруг глаз. Массажер отлично подойдёт для утреннего массажа — он холодненький, хорошо бодрит, помогает выводить лишнюю жидкость и бороться с отеками.
Mount Lai The Rose Quartz Eye Massage Tool ( $30.00) – и такой же массажер для области вокруг глаз, только из розового кварца.
Новинки Kate Somerville
Kate Somerville DeliKate Soothing Cleanser ( £33.00 ) – очень мягкое успокаивающее средство для умывания с керамидами и фосфолипидами. Предназначено для чувствительной и сухой кожи, не содержит отдушки или эфирных масел.
Kate Somerville DeliKate Recovery Serum ( £70.00 ) – восстанавливающая сыворотка для чувствительной кожи с керамидами, пептидами и масло облепихи. Должна укреплять кожу, восстанавливать защитный барьер. Не содержит эфирных масел и отдушек.
Kate Somerville DeliKate Recovery Cream ( £69.00) – восстанавливающий крем для чувствительной кожи с керамидами, пептидами, аденозином и растительными экстрактами. Не содержит эфирных масел и отдушек.
BIOSSANCE Squalane + Vitamin C Rose Oil with Aimee Song — лимитированное издание легкой маслянистой сыворотки с растительным скваланом, витамином С и экстрактом розы.
Масло должно придавать сияние, выравнивать тон, повышать упругость, увлажнять кожу и разглаживать заломы и морщинки.
BIOSSANCE Your Favourite Kit by Aimee Song — лимитированный набор, в который входит полноразмерное масло (30мл), полноразмерный бальзам для губ (10мл), миниатюра крема для век (3мл), сыворотка для лица (10мл) и косметичка.
DHC Tokyo Set — очень выгодный по цене лимитированный набор с гидрофильным маслом DHC и очищающим энзимным порошком DHC.
DHC Brightening SPF30 Broad Spectrum Sunscreen ( $28.00) – и вот такой интересный легкий минеральный санскрин вышел у DHC. В составе альфа-арбутин, витамин С, серебро, сок алоэ.
По коду MD20 сейчас действует скидка 20% на skinstore.
Alpha H Liquid Gold Rose Perfect and Plump ( £32.00) – бальзам для губ с пептидами, гиалуроновой кислотой, 24-к золотом и экстрактом семян малины. Бальзам должен питать, увлажнять, разглаживать и делать губы «пухлыми».
Skin Gym Rose Quartz Revi Beauty Roller ( £68.00) – симпатичный массажер с роликами из розового кварца. Я люблю подобные массажеры — они помогают снимать отеки по утрам и в целом кожа становится более упругой.
Elizabeth Arden Ceramide Micro Capsule Skin Replenishing Essence ( £45.00) – укрепляющая эссенция с красными водорослями, керамидами, стволовыми клетками орхидеи и маслом камелии.
Новинки Chantecaille
Chantecaille Radiance Elixir ( £198.00 ) – симпатичная увлажняющая сыворотка-эликсир с розой , скваланом и пептидами (и конским ценником). Должна давать увлажнение, повышать упругость, придавать сияние коже, подсвечивать изнутри.
Chantecaille Cheek and Highlighter Duo ( £79.00) – и вот такие шикарные палетки с хайлайтером и румянами — Rose Whale Shark и Coral Manta Ray .
У кита (rose whale shark) — более розоватые оттенки, у ската (coral manta ray) более коралловые-абрикосовые. Упаковки , как всегда, чудеснейшие! Произведение искусства. Кит меня влюбил в себя, но меня жаба задавит отдать столько денег за палетку + растаможку. 😶
Часть средств с продажи этих палеток идёт на благотворительность.
Chantecaille Lip Tint Hydrating Balm ( £30.00) – и ещё вышли вот такие питательные бальзамы для губ в 4-х оттенках — Madeira, Calendula, Beach Rose и Verbena.
Anastasia Beverly Hills NORVINA® Pro Pigment Palette Vol. 4 ( £68.00) – у Насти вышла очередная «кучка» новых палеток, из которых мне понравилась только вот эта . Цвета хоть и очень «девочковые», но вполне носибельные.
Промо-наборы
Virtue Spring Treatment Kit ( £54.00 ) – симпатичный промо-набор, в который входит восстанавливающая маска для волос Virtue Restorative Treatment Mask (50 мл), масло для волос Virtue Healing Oil (50 мл), расческа Virtue Comb и косметичка.
Sunday Riley Morning Must Haves ( £79) – довольно выгодный по цене промо-набор, в который вошли гликолевая сыворотка Good Genes Glycolic Acid Treatment (15 мл), крем для век Autocorrect Brightening and Depuffing Eye Contour Cream (15 мл) и увлажняющий крем для лица с витамином С C.E.O. Vitamin C Rich Hydration Cream (15 г).
Caroline Hirons Skincare: The Ultimate No-Nonsense Guide (£20) – на Cult Beauty появилась книга об уходе за кожей от бьюти-гуру Caroline Hirons .
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Mara chia moringa algae enzyme cleansing oil
Jojoba is a drought resistant evergreen shrub native to South-western North America. It’s known and grown for jojoba oil, the golden yellow liquid coming from the seeds (about 50% of the weight of the seeds will be oil).
At first glance, it seems like your average emollient plant oil: it looks like an oil and it’s nourishing and moisturizing to the skin but if we dig a bit deeper, it turns out that jojoba oil is really special and unique: technically — or rather chemically — it’s not an oil but a wax ester (and calling it an oil is kind of sloppy).
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So what the heck is a wax ester and why is that important anyway? Well, to understand what a wax ester is, you first have to know that oils are chemically triglycerides: one glycerin + three fatty acids attached to it. The fatty acids attached to the glycerin vary and thus we have many kinds of oils, but they are all triglycerides. Mother Nature created triglycerides to be easily hydrolyzed (be broken down to a glycerin + 3 fatty acid molecules) and oxidized (the fatty acid is broken down into small parts) — this happens basically when we eat fats or oils and our body generates energy from it.
Mother Nature also created wax esters but for a totally different purpose. Chemically, a wax ester is a fatty acid + a fatty alcohol, one long molecule. Wax esters are on the outer surface of several plant leaves to give them environmental protection. 25-30% of human sebum is also wax esters to give us people environmental protection.
So being a wax ester results in a couple of unique properties: First, jojoba oil is extremely stable. Like crazy stable. Even if you heat it to 370 C (698 F) for 96 hours, it does not budge. (Many plant oils tend to go off pretty quickly). If you have some pure jojoba oil at home, you should be fine using it for years.
Second, jojoba oil is the most similar to human sebum (both being wax esters), and the two are completely miscible. Acne.org has this not fully proven theory that thanks to this, jojoba might be able to «trick» the skin into thinking it has already produced enough sebum, so it might have «skin balancing» properties for oily skin.
Third, jojoba oil moisturizes the skin through a unique dual action: on the one hand, it mixes with sebum and forms a thin, non-greasy, semi-occlusive layer; on the other hand, it absorbs into the skin through pores and hair follicles then diffuses into the intercellular spaces of the outer layer of the skin to make it soft and supple.
On balance, the point is this: in contrast to real plant oils, wax esters were designed by Mother Nature to stay on the surface and form a protective, moisturizing barrier and jojoba oil being a wax ester is uniquely excellent at doing that.
A super common emollient that makes your skin feel nice and smooth. It comes from coconut oil and glycerin, it’s light-textured, clear, odorless and non-greasy. It’s a nice ingredient that just feels good on the skin, is super well tolerated by every skin type and easy to formulate with. No wonder it’s popular.
Sunflower does not need a big intro as you probably use it in the kitchen as cooking oil, or you munch on the seeds as a healthy snack or you adore its big, beautiful yellow flower during the summer — or you do all of these and probably even more. And by even more we mean putting it all over your face as sunflower oil is one of the most commonly used plant oils in skincare.
It’s a real oldie: expressed directly from the seeds, the oil is used not for hundreds but thousands of years. According to The National Sunflower Association, there is evidence that both the plant and its oil were used by American Indians in the area of Arizona and New Mexico about 3000 BC. Do the math: it’s more than 5000 years – definitely an oldie.
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Our intro did get pretty big after all (sorry for that), so let’s get to the point finally: sunflower oil — similar to other plant oils — is a great emollient that makes the skin smooth and nice and helps to keep it hydrated. It also protects the surface of the skin and enhances the damaged or irritated skin barrier. Leslie Bauman notes in Cosmetic Dermatology that one application of sunflower oil significantly speeds up the recovery of the skin barrier within an hour and sustains the results 5 hours after using it.
It’s also loaded with fatty acids (mostly linoleic (50-74%) and oleic (14-35%)). The unrefined version (be sure to use that on your skin!) is especially high in linoleic acid that is great even for acne-prone skin. Its comedogen index is 0, meaning that it’s pretty much an all skin-type oil.
Truth be told, there are many great plant oils and sunflower oil is definitely one of them.
The oil coming from the seeds of the Moringa tree, a big white-flowered tree native to India. It’s a yellow oil similar to olive oil. It’s rich in nourishing and moisturizing fatty acid, oleic (75%) and also contains behenic acid (up to 8%) that makes moringa very stable and gives the oil a long shelf life.
It blends easily with essential oils and can also help to stabilize scents so it’s a popular oil in the perfume industry.
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.
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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 >>
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A multi-functional emulsifier that helps water and oil to nicely mix together. It also has a nice skin feeling, can act as a thickener and has some antimicrobial activity that makes it an active ingredient in some natural deodorants.
A white powdery thing that’s the major component of glass and sand. In cosmetics, it’s often in products that are supposed to keep your skin matte as it has great oil-absorbing abilities. It’s also used as a helper ingredient to thicken up products or suspend insoluble particles.
The extract coming from the juice containing leaves of the Aloe vera plant. It’s usually a hydroglycolic extract (though oil extract for the lipid parts also exists) that has similar moisturizing, emollient and anti-inflammatory properties as the juice itself. We have written some more about aloe here.
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Chamomile probably needs no introduction as it’s one of the most widely used medicinal herbs. You probably drink it regularly as a nice, calming cup of tea and it’s also a regular on skincare ingredient lists.
Cosmetic companies use it mainly for its anti-inflammatory properties. It contains the terpenoids chamazulene and bisabolol both of which show great anti-inflammatory action in animal studies. On top of that chamomile also has some antioxidant activity (thanks to some other active ingredients called matricine, apigenin and luteolin).
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Though chamomile is usually a goodie for the skin, it’s also not uncommon to have an allergic reaction to it.
The extract of red seaweed that has nice film-forming, skin smoothing and moisturizing properties.
The manufacturer claims that thanks to biomimetic properties between skin proteins and carrageenans it has a very long-lasting action and can form a «second skin». It also gives a «slow-release» effect to oil-loving active ingredients and measurably reduces trans-epidermal water loss (that’s pretty much a synonym of saying that it moisturizes the skin).
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When you hear pumpkin you probably think of Halloween or autumn, but it turns out that many forms of pumpkin are also great skincare ingredients.
This particular form is obtained by fermenting the pumpkin fruit with lactobacillus lactis. During the fermentation, many of the complex biomolecules are broken down into isolated phytochemicals and selective filtration techniques are used to isolate the proteolytic parts. The result is pumpkin enzyme that is a gentle exfoliator that can be an alternative to AHAs.
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According to the manufacturer, 4% glycolic acid has a similar effect on cell renewal as 5% pumpkin enzyme. In an irritation test, the ingredient did not irritate even the sensitive eye tissue and was hardly more irritating than glycerin.
All in all, pumpkin enzyme seems to be a promising gentle alternative to acid exfoliation.
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The essential oil coming from the fruit (probably the rind) of the bergamot orange. It’s a common top note in perfumes and contains (among others) fragrant compounds limonene (37%), linalyl acetate (30%) and linalool (8.8%).
A well-known issue with bergamot oil (apart from the fragrance allergens) is that it contains phototoxic compounds called furanocoumarins, but more and more commonly furanocoumarin-free versions are used in cosmetic products. Still, if you have sensitive skin and prefer fragrance-free products, bergamot oil is not for you.
Chia seeds are in fashion and there is a reason for that. They are not only a superfood for your body but putting the oil all over your face seems to be a good idea too.
Its unique property is that it’s the richest known botanical source of skin moisturizing and probably anti-inflammatory alpha-linolenic acid (contains 50-60%). It also contains barrier repairing linoleic acid (17-26%) and only a small amount of very nourishing but potentially acne causing oleic acid (7%).
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Thanks to its great fatty acid content, chia seed oil counts as a great skin hydrator and it can help to maintain a healthy skin barrier function. According to manufacturer’s info, it can even alleviate itchy skin. If that is not enough, it also contains a couple of nice antioxidants, including Alpha-Lipoic Acid, Coumaric and Caffeic Acid.
All in all, a nice plant oil with a unique fatty acid composition and some nice antioxidants.
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It’s the most commonly used version of pure vitamin E in cosmetics. You can read all about the pure form here. This one is the so-called esterified version.
According to famous dermatologist, Leslie Baumann while tocopheryl acetate is more stable and has a longer shelf life, it’s also more poorly absorbed by the skin and may not have the same awesome photoprotective effects as pure Vit E.
It’s a little helper ingredient coming from corn, rice or potato starch that can help to keep skin mat (absorbent), to stabilise emulsions, and to keep the product together (binding).
It’s an alternative, natural preservative that comes from radishes fermented with Leuconostoc kimchii, a lactic acid bacteria that has been used to make traditional Korean dish, kimchi. During the fermentation process, a peptide is secreted from the bacteria that has significant antimicrobial properties.
It is one of the more promising natural preservatives that can be used even alone (recommended at 2-4%), but it’s not as effective as more common alternatives, like parabens or phenoxyethanol.
A super common and cheap fragrance ingredient. It’s in many plants, e.g. rosemary, eucalyptus, lavender, lemongrass, peppermint and it’s the main component (about 50-90%) of the peel oil of citrus fruits.
It does smell nice but the problem is that it oxidizes on air exposure and the resulting stuff is not good for the skin. Oxidized limonene can cause allergic contact dermatitis and counts as a frequent skin sensitizer.
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Limonene’s nr1 function is definitely being a fragrance component, but there are several studies showing that it’s also a penetration enhancer, mainly for oil-loving components.
All in all, limonene has some pros and cons, but — especially if your skin is sensitive — the cons probably outweigh the pros.
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