I would say the downsides of this product is that for someone who has oily skin, this product like any spf will make me go extra shiny if I don’t powder or blot after 5hrs. The resulting cream or lotion has great cosmetic properties with good spreadability and an enhanced soft skin feel. 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).

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. As for hair care, it is a non-volatile silicone meaning that it stays on the hair rather than evaporates from it and smoothes the hair like no other thing. It makes your skin feel nice and smooth (emollient), stabilizes oil-water mixes and gives body to them.

I am also a fitness fanatic so you may find me doing yoga or HIIT somewhere if I'm not on my spin bike. According to their info, this combination can balance out undesirable tones in the skin, making it a popular choice for brightening products and highlighters. As you might guess from the “pro” part, it’s a precursor to vitamin B5 (whose fancy name is pantothenic acid). It is also fairly photostable and can be used to protect other less stable UV filters (like famous UVA blocker, avobenzone) in the formula.

It’s safe and gentle, but even more importantly, it’s not a feared-by-everyone-mostly-without-scientific-reason paraben. Has to be combined with some other nice preservatives, like potassium sorbate to be broad spectrum enough.

It’s very alkaline (you know the opposite of being very acidic): a 1% solution has a pH of around 10.

Great natural moisturizer and skin-identical ingredient that plays an important role in skin hydration and general skin health. Fragrance in the US and parfum in the EU is a generic term on the ingredient list that is made up of 30 to 50 chemicals on average (but it can have as much as 200 components!It’s also one of the “EU 26 fragrances” that has to be labelled separately (and cannot be simply included in the term “fragrance/perfume” on the label) because of allergen potential. Regular sized Titanium Dioxide also has a great safety profile, it's non-irritating and is pretty much free from any health concerns (like estrogenic effect worries with some chemical filters). I think it's really important to use products that help keep your skin healthy and looking great at the same time.