Beauty

[HappyDaze]

On 1/14/2015 UMDTerpFan said:

On 1/14/2015 HappyDaze said:

On 1/14/2015 suzyQ3 said:

On 1/14/2015 Ruby Woo said:

On 1/13/2015 HappyDaze said:

On 1/13/2015 Love Roses said:

Haven't tried the product. I know alcohol can dry out the skin but maybe it's needed to help the other ingredients do their job. Titanium dioxide is used in many things to keep them 'white'. Maybe so the product doesn't look old and contaminated before it's time.

No, that is really not the way it works with alcohol in skincare.

HappyDaze, I have read that too. That it is just a myth about alcohol in skincare drying skin, more specifically toners.

I hope that HappyDaze will forgive me for butting in here, but I really don't think that's what she was referring to. I think HD was saying that alcohol is not needed to help other ingredients do their job, as the poster had suggested.

Alcohol, unless it's the "fatty" kind, is very drying to skin.

Yes, thank you for clarifying that, Suzy.

Also, it isn't just that it causes drying, it actually can damage cells and cause more long-term damage. As Suzy stated, there are are "fatty" kinds of alcohol that aren't drying and the SD, denatured, etc kind that ARE drying. And the kind in Tatcha is the drying kind, not the fatty kind.

Cetyl alcohol is actually good for your skin unless you suffer from excema or have sensitive skin. It's the fatty acid type. Here's a link to Truth In Aging's discussion on cetyl alcohol:

https://www.truthinaging.com/ingredients/cetyl-alcohol

I am not referring to that kind of alcohol, UMD. I am referring to the drying kind contained in Tatcha's cleansing oil listed as simply "alcohol", right before fragrance in the ingredient list also in the enzyme powder right before phenoxyethanol.