Ingredients Lab: Benefits Of Squalane In Skincare
Squalane is one of the most popular ingredients in skincare, best known for its moisturizing and hydrating properties, but what is squalane, where does it come from and what are the benefits of squalane for the skin?
What is Squalane?
What Does Squalane Do For The Skin?
Squalane can be found in a numerous skincare products, including oils, moisturizers, masks and even cleansers! As a multi-tasking ingredient that’s worthy of your attention, this ingredient comes with a multitude of benefits for the skin:
It hydrates: it helps maintain hydration, whilst also reducing the appearance of dryness and flakiness. It soothes: its anti-inflammatory properties help reduce redness and swelling. It moisturizes: squalane is commonly known as an emollient that keeps your skin feeling moisturized. This can help prevent transepidermal water loss, which occurs when moisture from the top barriers of the skin is lost to air. It improves elasticity: the ingredient increases cell turnover and improves skin elasticity. It protects: it helps repair the skin's barrier and protects from external environmental aggressors, therefore reducing skin sensitivity and surface irritation. - It's suitable for all skin types: squalane is lightweight and non-comedogenic, meaning that it won't clog your pores.
In our commitment to being a more sustainable skincare brand, not only do we want to help create a world with more skin confidence and less waste, we're 100% against animal cruelty. One of the wonderful benefits of the squalane that we use, is that its sugar origin based, allowing us to help keep millions of sharks safe from liver harvesting each year.
Your Squalane Skin Care Routine
Our most rich and hydrating products contain squalane in their formulas, to help give you a boost of skin confidence and hydration during the cooler months. Tackle Winter skin and prevent dryness and dehydration with our nourishing face and body products infused with squalene to help transform dull, dry complexions back to life with lasting radiance.
Restorative Facial Mask: clinically proven to reinforce the skin’s moisture barrier. Apply this squalane face mask in the evening to reveal nourished, radiant looking, supple skin in the morning.Replenishing Facial Cream: This daily face cream delivers instant long-lasting moisturization to nourish and support dry, sensitive skin. Apply to the face and neck every morning and evening after cleansing. Intensive Lip Treatment: progressively hydrates, refines and improves lip texture, providing instant comfort and long-term relief to very dry, chapped lips. This product can be used alone, as a sheer moisturising lip cream or under any lipstick for a silky-smooth application. Transforming Body Cream: a triple-functioning exfoliating, moisturizing and intensely nourishing, oil-rich formula. Apply twice daily for 4 weeks. Thereafter apply daily to maintain skin’s optimum condition.
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